Sentence examples for rejected nominee from inspiring English sources

He also rejected nominee Vladimir Nabokov, according to Svenska Dagbladet, citing Lolita as an "immoral" work.

In his remarks on Friday, Mr. Daschle asserted that no president has "ever used a recess appointment to install a rejected nominee on to the federal bench," an apparent reference to Judge Pickering and Mr. Pryor, whose nominations were blocked from coming up for formal consideration.

After the Senate rejected nominee William Trigg, the state's newspapers openly talked of an executive-legislative feud and claimed the Senate had its own favorite candidate for the position and would not accept anyone else.

Karzai didn't try again after that; he merely designated some of the rejected nominees as "acting ministers".

That means debating, confirming or rejecting nominees based on their merits.

Neither party has been above rejecting nominees because of their ideological views.

Instead, Schumer said, the Senate should feel free to reject nominees — who were otherwise well qualified — because their views were simply too conservative.

It's true that the presidency is up for grabs in three years; the senate, which confirms or rejects nominees, could have a Republican majority in just 18 months.

One is the scarcity of verifiable information beyond what is physically visible to United Nations officials in Iraq -- whose appointments Baghdad can control in the sense that it can reject nominees for relief positions, and whose movements are frequently circumscribed.

There's actually a long, if sporadic, history of the Senate rejecting nominees on these grounds.

Still, it would be unprecedented to reject nominees for just under a year (See John Tyler, who had 5 rejected and took 15 months to fill a vacancy).