Sentence examples for nominee down from inspiring English sources

If parliament votes his nominee down, as seemed likely, the president can hang on and try again.

Forty-eight percent of Democrats say he is the candidate with the best chance of beating Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee, down from 56percentt a month ago.

Thirty-eight percent of people questioned in the poll say they have a favorable view of the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, down two points from October.

Just 41percentt of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters now say Hillary Clinton was the Democrats' best option for a nominee, down from 53percentt in an August survey.

Such homophobia didn't even play in Alaska — the State Legislature voted the nominee down — and will doom Republicans like Palin in national elections.

The invocation of the nuclear option — confirmation via a simple majority rather than the three-fifths vote formerly required to overcome a filibuster — should guarantee his appointment, which is obligatory if he is to be a Supreme Court nominee down the line.

New Zealand, which submitted "The Orator," by the Maori director Tusi Tamasese, will be competing in the category for the first time, but the list of nominees, down by two countries compared with last year, includes many familiar names.

"With an arrogance that I haven't seen matched in a long time," said Councilman Archie Spigner, who represents the neighborhood, "you have turned these nominees down and made it clear that it's your way or the highway".

Establishment influence is even less apparent on the Republican side, a stark contrast to 2000, when party chieftains anointed George W. Bush as the Republican nominee, locking down important endorsements and donors before a single primary was held.

8 08 p.m. | More on Exit Polls: Another bit from the exit polls: Democratic voters in both Ohio and Texas say that if determining the nominee comes down to the superdelegates, they should vote based on the results of the primaries and caucuses.

As if to prove Ms. Clinton's point that Mr. Trump would withdraw U.S. leadership from the world — to Mr. Putin's delight — the Republican nominee doubled down on his insistence that NATO countries and other allies "have to pay up," and he absurdly took credit for forcing reforms on the decades-old alliance.