Sentence examples for pointed confirmation from inspiring English sources
But in perhaps the most pointed confirmation of how changed her heart had become, she said she was able to forgive her father.
Jack Lew, the man who would have been her boss had she been confirmed as deputy Treasury secretary, faced pointed questions during his confirmation about the compensation he received while working on Wall Street.
Brennan's role in that program and the extent of his involvement in and knowledge of severe interrogation methods such as waterboarding during the Bush era were the subject of pointed questioning during his confirmation hearings after Obama nominated him to head the CIA in January 2013.
Point to its pointed teeth.
Nonetheless, Mr. Rumsfeld's extensive business investments and a conversation he had with President Richard M. Nixon 29 years ago emerged as pointed rocks on an otherwise smooth path to confirmation.
Her pointed comments on the emergency preparedness exercise, which she repeated last month at her Senate confirmation hearing, offer a glimpse into how Ms. Napolitano may retool one the centerpieces of the Bush administration's domestic security architecture.
As two of the most prominent progressive voices in the country, Brown and Warren mounted a pointed inquiry into Carson's views on public housing and the minimum wage during his confirmation hearing last week.
In July, the National Rifle Association, which historically has stayed out of judicial nomination fights, came out against Justice Sotomayor and said it would include senators' confirmation vote in its legislative scorecard on gun-rights issues for the 2010 election, a pointed threat to Democrats from conservative-leaning states.
Even as the sharp and pointed questioning of John Ashcroft by his Senate inquisitors went on for a second day today, an array of far less confrontational confirmation hearings were also playing out all across the Senate side of Capitol Hill.
