Sentence examples for pick nominees from inspiring English sources

Washington's system, adopted in 1935, allows voters to pick nominees from any political party.

Now that the left and the right rely on the Supreme Court to reverse their defeats in the political arena, presidents of both parties are unlikely to pick nominees who believe the court should strike down very few laws.

There is at least one crucial problem that the authors, all members of the establishment wing of the party, address only peripherally and with kid gloves: the extreme conservatism of the party's primary and caucus voters — the people who actually pick nominees.

In the early months of the Bush administration, Mr. Lay -- whose company was one of the biggest financial backers of George W. Bush's presidential campaign -- played a prominent, and some said unusual, role in helping the White House pick nominees to the federal energy commission.

In an era when the Senate's mandate to "advise and consent" increasingly translates into "beat up and throw out," Democratic and Republican administrations alike pick nominees based not only on what they might do or say, but also on what they have or have not done and said.

(It's worth noting that the "Grammy board" doesn't pick nominees.

In any case the record of elected GOP politicians in picking nominees is hardly inspiring.

The Register has a mixed record in picking nominees; in 2008, it picked Senators John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both of whom went on to lose the state's caucuses.

And when Mr. Bush picked nominees to fill two vacant Republican slots on the five-member commission, they both had the backing of Enron, as well as other companies.

But even Clinton supporters should agree that our supposedly "democratic" system for picking nominees for president is terribly broken and should be dramatically overhauled.

Gov. David A. Paterson, who according to the State Constitution had to select the chief judge from the commission's list, expressed disappointment that no women were included, spurring calls for a review of how the commission picks nominees.