Sentence examples for overwhelmingly nominated from inspiring English sources

The following month in Denver, the Democrats overwhelmingly nominated the popular William Jennings Bryan for the third time, also on the first ballot.

When the new-style delegates overwhelmingly nominated McGovern as their presidential candidate, the AFL/CIO trade union federation, still smarting from his failure to vote as promised on an important closed-shop amendment, flatly refused to endorse him.

The steering group thus decided in advance to exclude any questions nominated overwhelmingly (defined as >90% of responses) by only clinicians or only lay respondents, since they were by definition not shared priorities.

In the big, much-anticipated race for an open U.S. Senate seat, Missouri Democrats overwhelmingly voted to nominate Robin Carnahan, the secretary of state whose father was governor, whose mother was a U.S. senator and whose brother is currently a congressman.

He was drawn as a college student to the "cool rationality" of President Jack Kennedy, proposed for the federal bench by the famously centrist Moynihan, nominated by President Bill Clinton and overwhelmingly confirmed by a bipartisan Senate in 1996.

The general who led a military coup in Thailand three months ago took on the civilian mantle of prime minister Thursday when the legislators he appointed nominated him as sole candidate and voted overwhelmingly to make him government chief.

In a ceremonial vote a day before Erdogan was due to take presidential office, the AKP overwhelmingly approved Davutoglu, who was the only candidate after being nominated by the party executive committee.

I can say with certainty that the delegates who nominated Mr. Cheney and the many voters who support him overwhelmingly disagree with that.

With its four top men nominated for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, the odds were overwhelmingly that the show would take home the prize.

When Mr. Bybee was nominated, critics warned that he had dangerous views on civil liberties, but he was overwhelmingly confirmed.

In 2012, Democrats nominated an extremely qualified candidate in Bob Kerrey, the former senator and governor, while Republicans had a middling one in Deb Fischer, the state senator — but Ms. Fischer won overwhelmingly.