Sentence examples for picked nominees from inspiring English sources

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.

At the same time, in primary voting in Arkansas, Democrats and Republicans picked nominees for a third special House election to be held on Nov. 20, a contest that also is unlikely to produce any surprises or change in the House balance.

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

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

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.

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

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.

If political conventions long ago stopped picking nominees and started selling them, the Republicans are intent this summer on refining the tone of the sales pitch and imposing an unparalleled degree of message discipline on the proceedings.

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.

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

On Tuesday, Keystone Staters go to the polls to pick nominees in a number of competitive races.