Sentence examples for nominee qualified from inspiring English sources

"Senators can decide for themselves if the A.B.A.'s metric of what makes a nominee qualified is proper in these cases," he said.

Under the agreement signed by the governor, a 25-member committee would scrutinize a 20-page questionnaire submitted by a nominee and then vote to declare a nominee qualified or unqualified and testify at hearings if a nominee is found unqualified.

The issue before the Senate is pretty simple: Is the nominee qualified to sit on the Court?

If you toss in the L.A. houses (in Echo Park and Venice) inhabited by the characters in Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right," that means more than half of this year's 10 best picture nominees qualify as unusually reliant on spaces where architecture and psychology are tough, if not impossible, to separate.

I do not think he's being straight with his answer because he has repeatedly, through the committee process, not allowed the president's nominees, very qualified nominees who disagree with him on what I believe is a litmus test issue, the fairness of a straight yes-or-no vote.

It would be improper to make a commitment on a vote before I knew who the nominee was and whether I thought the nominee was qualified.

Such blocking often bears no relation to whether the nominee is qualified.

Was the nominee truly qualified, with a professional background worthy of the job?

As long as a nominee is qualified and moderate, Stone said, the Senate has confirmed the selection.

The Senate, in all its august wisdom, used to approach nominations to the Supreme Court with a simple standard: If the nominee was qualified and wasn't a criminal or a drunk, he or she would probably get confirmed with the support of both the president's party and the opposition.

And if that nominee is qualified, Graham says he'll vote to confirm him or her in the committee and on the Senate floor.