Sentence examples for prevent confirmation from inspiring English sources

Republicans have used the filibuster three times in November, to prevent confirmation votes on judges nominated by Barack Obama to fill vacancies on the US appeals court for the Washington DC circuit.

In 1987 he helped prevent confirmation of the conservative judge and legal scholar Robert Bork, who had been nominated by Ronald Reagan, in the process enraging many in his own Republican party.

Even worse, secret "holds" by individual Senators prevent confirmation of federal judges and administration officials.

That would allow the minority Democrats, voting as a bloc, to prevent confirmation of a controversial pick like Pryor.

They're not controlled, double-blind, or have the criteria that prevent confirmation bias, and because of that most are rated Level 3, Bradley says.

All interviewers and the study psychiatrist were blinded for the PHQ score to prevent confirmation bias.

The list of vacancies in senior economic and regulatory positions has lengthened to roughly a dozen since last November, when Republicans won enough Senate seats to prevent confirmations.

No matter how just the cause -- say, preventing confirmation of a far-right judicial candidate -- the filibuster, by its very nature, impedes the process.

"However, as was referenced by Leeds United in its statement of 29 December, the club has challenged the League 'through the appropriate legal routes', which has prevented confirmation of the date of this fixture until now.

While he admits the time lapse effect prevents confirmation that the object had wingtip strobes, which would help prove the terrestrial aircraft argument, Dantonio asserts that the flying object "is turning at a rate consistent with aircraft, but the case that it is descending is not at all made.

In other theropods the maxillary antrum (the space within the inflated area) communicates with the maxillary fenestra [28], although obscuration by matrix prevents confirmation of this in Geminiraptor.