Sentence examples for professor nominated from inspiring English sources
Goodwin Liu, a liberal law professor nominated last year to an appellate bench, was filibustered even though he was entirely in the legal mainstream, supported by conservatives including Kenneth Starr and Clint Bolick.
Republicans have used filibusters to stop outright only two of Obama's judicial nominations: Caitlin Halligan, a former aide to Andrew Cuomo, nominated to the D.C. Circuit; and Goodwin Liu, a Berkeley law professor, nominated to the Ninth Circuit.
They include Miguel Estrada, a Washington lawyer nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Michael C. McConnell, a University of Utah law professor nominated to the 10th Circuit court, in Denver.
There is the Georgetown University professor, nominated for a top State Department post, who Mr. Wilson thinks is way too soft on Fidel Castro of Cuba and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.
The fact is that where "Creative Capitalism" or Social Business, as Clinton's friend, Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi professor he nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, calls it, is also needed here in the United States.
Well, a Swedish sociology professor has nominated Edward Snowden for this year's Nobel Peace Prize -- since he thinks the NSA whistleblower could help "save the prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision" to give the 2009 award to Barack Obama.
This article was reviewed by Professor Paul Harrison (nominated by Dr. Mark Gerstein, Dr. Arcady Mushegian and Dr. Anthony Almudevarr.
That changed when Jonathan nominated Professor Attahiru Jega as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) in 2010.
Their original presidential candidate was Alain Lipietz, a former Maoist economics professor, who was nominated in primaries in July.
"She makes an argument on the merits and she sticks with it," said Alan Blinder, an economics professor at Princeton nominated to the Fed alongside Ms. Yellen in 1994.
President Obama nominated Professor Diamond in April for a Fed board position, where he would serve under his former student, Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman.
