Sentence examples for up for nomination from inspiring English sources

To be honest, I was surprised to see it up for nomination.

She's playing Desire which has to be one of the best songs on all the albums up for nomination tonight.

Yet the former remains up for nomination, while the latter has suddenly been dropped.Michael Scherer points out that Mr Mason has irked some Republicans by supporting a hands-off approach to 527 groups.

While no Indian film was up for nomination in the 85th annual Academy Awards, held Sunday night in Los Angeles, Taiwan-born Ang Lee's win in the Best Director category for "Life of Pi" ensured a national connection to this year's Oscars.

Baseball legend Ivan Pudge Rodriguezez, who is now up for nomination for the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame, is joining a venture capital fund.

Also up for nomination is Kate Atkinson's recent novel Life after Life, which was shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction earlier this year.

But there's another potential wild card in this year's telecast: the proliferation of youthful, relatively untested acts up for nominations in top categories.

His ample war chest makes him a considerable force in the Republican primary battle shaping up for the nomination for governor.

Anohni – formerly known as Antony Hegarty – is also up for a nomination for Hopelessness, her heavily political album, dealing with subjects such as Obama's drone wars, climate change and Guantanamo Bay.

So instead of putting her up for official nomination and a potentially nasty Congressional approval process the President punted and created a role for her.

Gyllenhaal, who is up for a nomination for her work in "The Honorable Woman," paired her strapless rose number with a pink pout, studded earrings and gold, jeweled clutch.