Sentence examples for reject confirmation from inspiring English sources

Separately, Anaconda Copper and other multinationals, under the aegis of David Rockefeller's Business Group for Latin America, offered $500,000 to buy influence with Chilean congressmen to reject confirmation of Allende's victory.

Hundreds of former and current EPA employees protested Pruitt's nomination, urging the Senate to reject his confirmation in February.

Some legal scholars say he should recuse himself from major pending environmental matters, while groups like the Environmental Defense Fund are urging Congress to reject his confirmation.

The Senate Judiciary Committee shut the door today on President Bush's efforts to promote Judge Charles W. Pickering Sr. to an appeals court post, as Democrats used their majority to reject his confirmation in the committee and then refused to send the nomination to the full Senate as the president had requested.

All of the Democrats in the Senate and two Republicans voted to reject DeVos' confirmation.

"For the above reasons, we urge you to reject the confirmation of Michael P. Boggs," the letter concludes.

Fellow Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson described Boggs as "a particularly egregious pick" and said he's lobbying Senate Democrats to reject the confirmation.

Sessions was rejected for confirmation as a federal judge in 1986, after testimony that he said the Ku Klux Klan was "OK until I found out they smoked pot" and called a black attorney "boy" (he denied the latter).

He rejected the confirmation of his son's death.

They rejected his confirmation in December, despite conceding they actually like him, and vowed to keep opposing him or any other CFPB nominee until changes are made at the agency.

But he had already been talking the night before with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia about how to deal with the Kavanaugh accusations without rejecting his confirmation outright, sources told Politico.