Sentence examples for received the vice from inspiring English sources

Garner received the vice presidential nomination.

Twenty years later, in the tumultuous 1932 Democratic convention that nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for the first time, the Speaker of the House, John Nance Garner of Texas (nicknamed "Cactus Jack"), threw his delegates to F.D.R. at a key moment to break a multiballot deadlock and received the vice presidency in return.

Kirk's unit had actually received the Vice Admiral Rufus L. Taylor Award.

Still, Ms. Baldwin recalled a formative moment of her own, watching a tiny television from an efficiency apartment in 1984 as Geraldine A. Ferraro received the vice-presidential nomination, the first woman to do so for a major party.

Another cardinal-nephew, Sisto della Rovere, who received the vice-chancellorship and all the benefices of his half-brother, was not explicitly named as protector, although he wrote to Henry VII stating his intent to "maintain his brother's friendships".

Geraldine A. Ferraro served only from 1978 to 1984 yet received the Democratic vice presidential nomination in 1984.

In addition, the Blackstone is where Franklin Delano Roosevelt's third-term Democratic nomination was forged in 1940, where Harry S. Truman stayed when he received the 1944 Vice Presidential nomination and where Dwight D. Eisenhower heard the news of his first ballot 1952 Republican nomination.

Gray subsequently received the party's vice-presidential nomination on the first ballot.

The day of, VICE received the confirmed invitation along with the official press release.

Today, VICE received the results from our independent testing of two samples of synthetic cannabis.

This innovative programme received the university's first Vice Chancellor's Community Engagement Award in January 2008 as a testimony of the success of its capacity to address the needs of a community through experiential learning.