Sentence examples for successful nomination from inspiring English sources

Gerald Ford to that office and Ford's successful nomination in 1976 derailed Percy's plans.

He said the government considered Ms. Georgieva "to be a more successful nomination".

That successful nomination is both more important — and was more time-consuming — than any of the others.

In doing so, he also ruined any chances for his own successful nomination to the Supreme Court.

A successful nomination fight would clearly demonstrate Mr. Obama's support and could be his only option, since Republicans have blocked his ability to use a recess appointment over the Memorial Day break.

"Buildings have started disappearing or are slated to disappear at an alarming rate," said Ms. Culhane, 40, who put together the successful nomination in 2010 for Chinatown and Little Italy as a national historic district.

The film follows the maneuvering and skirmishing over a remarkable seven-month period in 2005 and 2006, when President George W. Bush made three choices for the court in quick succession — the successful nominations of John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. and the failed nomination of Harriet E. Miers.

A Unesco panel in Abu Dhabi will announce on Friday successful nominations for inclusion in the UN body's Memory of the World programme, amid efforts by Japanese officials to block the bid.

But as proof that he is proposing no more than what "earlier generations of Americans" did, Kramer invokes only manifestly inapposite episodes like the election of Jefferson, the overturning of Dred Scott and Franklin Roosevelt's successful nominations of justices with more progressive philosophies following his failed attempt at court-packing.

We also included successful nominations up to the fifth generation seeded from each index case.

Overall, 24.2% of participants had zero successful nominations, 32.3% had one, 26.3% had two, and 17.2% had three.