Sentence examples for was unanimously confirmed from inspiring English sources

It was observed that he was not asked one question about his views on abortion during his confirmation hearings and that as a Republican nominee he was unanimously confirmed by a Democratic Senate (of which I was a member).

Levine was unanimously confirmed.

He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate.

The quieter Kennedy was eventually nominated and was unanimously confirmed.

Dr. Richard H. Carmona, was unanimously confirmed by the Senate last week as surgeon general.

Blackmun was unanimously confirmed by the Senate and took his seat in June 1970.

After being unanimously confirmed by the Senate, he formally stepped down as governor in August.

Polarization in American politics has been increasingly profound and destructive (the late Janet Reno was the last attorney general to be unanimously confirmed by both parties, in 1993, 23 years ago).

He had been unanimously confirmed just 14 months earlier to be the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission by a Senate whose members had hailed him as one of the nation's most brilliant lawyers, just as the agency was headed into one of its most difficult periods, a string of corporate scandals that shook investor confidence in Wall Street.

In 2013, Sri Srinivasan became the first Indian American appellate court judge after being unanimously confirmed by the Senate to the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals.

A widely recognized legal and foreign policy giant known for his decades of senior level work in both the public and private sectors, Verma made history by becoming the first Indian-origin American ambassador to India after being unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in December 2014.