Sentence examples for took the nomination from inspiring English sources

The People's Daily newspaper in China took the nomination seriously and ran a 55-photo spread to celebrate the honour.

Though Roosevelt won most of the primaries, the results were non-binding, and President Taft took the nomination.

If, despite his best efforts, his old opponent took the nomination, Congressman Kolbe said, it was "an absolute certainty, guaranteed" that the seat would go Democratic.

Republican Corey Stewart nearly took the nomination from Gillespie by stirring up the right wing of the party, and Democrat Tom Perriello drew big national dollars in his challenge to Northam by running hard against President Trump.

What's unusual in this story is that Mr Massie, currently the "judge executive" (sort of like city manager) of Lewis County, took the nomination with the generous help of a super PAC bankrolled by a wealthy 21-year-old student from Texas.

Unfortunately, it took the nomination of a stunningly unqualified and ethically compromised despiser of equitable, democratically-governed public education to catalyze public outcry.

One of them recently estimated that she has about a 2% chance of taking the nomination.

It may seem unlikely that they could take the nomination away from Mr Bush.

In the betting markets, the odds on him taking the nomination have shortened in the past couple of weeks.

But Mr Kerry unexpectedly won in Iowa, thumped Mr Dean in New Hampshire and went on to take the nomination.

That's big news because a candidate who clearly wins the "invisible primary" usually takes the nomination.