Sentence examples for on the confirmation of from inspiring English sources

Normally, a senator who's feeling testy will just put a hold on one presidential nomination as Jim Bunning of Kentucky did last year when he stopped action on the confirmation of a deputy U.S. trade representative because he was upset that the Canadian Parliament was considering a bill to ban the sale of cigarettes with candy flavorings.

It is also planning to vote on the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

He was also monitoring Senate hearings on the confirmation of some of his cabinet nominees.

Two days later, Senator Jim DeMint lifted his hold on the confirmation of Shannon to become U.S. Ambassador to Brazil.

In the 1991 hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, charges of sexual harassment and coarse expressions were broadcast on national television.

With the Administration focussed on pushing health-care reform through the Senate, it's unclear whether a renewed focus on the confirmation of judges would even make much difference.

"It's only natural that we would hope that the participants would include the members of the Arab League Follow Up Committee," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in the first on-the-record confirmation of the decision to invite Syria.

"It depends on who's left the court," said Fred McClure, a former White House official who worked on the confirmations of three Republican-appointed justices.

The latest clash erupted when Republicans blocked two procedural votes on the confirmations of Rep. Melvin Watt (D-N.C).

The focus of our research however has been on methods allowing the confirmation of AZM in biological fluids.

On October 18, following the confirmation of the first anthrax case in New Jersey, the Trenton Processing and Distribution Center was closed.