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  • And the director had nominated an art teacher to help them find a mythical fraternity of Satanists.†   (source)
  • Yu Jian, the chairman of our class, was the first one nominated.†   (source)
  • Chairman, in light of the boy's performance last night at the Sweet Pea, I nominate the name Waterworks Willie."†   (source)
  • "But as they say at the Oscars, it's an honor to be nominated."†   (source)
  • Teachers were asked to nominate the brightest students in their classes.†   (source)
  • She's also one of only two American women to have been nominated for the Best Director Oscar, for Lost in Translation.†   (source)
  • I went through every major screening test on both my heads—all the tests I had to go through under Government medical officers before my nomination for presidency could be properly ratified.†   (source)
  • He still led his evening practice sessions, and now they were attended by an elite group of soldiers nominated by their commanders, though any Launchy who wanted to could still come.†   (source)
  • General Ulysses Grant became President Grant in 1869, and nominated Stanton to the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • Carter H. Harrison Associations sprang up all over town, and now, at the start of 1893, Carter was one of two candidates for the Democratic nomination, the other being Washington Hesing, editor of the powerful German daily Staats-Zeitung.†   (source)
  • We want nominated officials, and we want to end the castes.†   (source)
  • If I lived, I might have to nominate Meg McCaffrey for Best Sacrifice at the next Demi Awards.†   (source)
  • I hereby nominate myself.†   (source)
  • The graying middle-aged nurse who doesn't attend to the patients but sits by and monitors the computers and phones, gives a little nod and stands up as if accepting a nomination.†   (source)
  • She stands with her arms crossed, and does not seem to react at all to my nomination.†   (source)
  • Na-: a prefix meaning "nominated" or "next in line."†   (source)
  • The King and Queen would be voted in by those attending the prom, but blank nomination ballots had been circulated to home rooms almost a month earlier.†   (source)
  • I was among fifteen *girls nominated to walk out for inspection by the assembled student body on voting day.†   (source)
  • 'Is anyone going to come to your Executive Council hearing and oppose your nomination?' the governor asked.†   (source)
  • During that year, I was nominated to stand for the Student Representative Council, which was the highest student organization at Fort Hare.†   (source)
  • You're nominated, Mack, you're just the stud to handle the job.†   (source)
  • If Nasuada were a Surdan general-which would be peculiar indeed, I admit-you would not hesitate to nominate her for the post.†   (source)
  • She and a few other girls were honorary leaders of our sad, mismatched group, nominated mostly because they hit certain bodily milestones before the rest of us, and could explain what was happening to us without laughing in our faces.†   (source)
  • Already it was clear that, of the three of us, she was first in line for the Oscar nomination.†   (source)
  • I dont subscribe to its nomination.†   (source)
  • You were nominated.†   (source)
  • The academy would nominate who would go: we would have to wait and see.†   (source)
  • Why would they nominate me for homecoming court?†   (source)
  • The Council wants to nominate Erik Night for the first of the two open positions.†   (source)
  • I nominate Jack.†   (source)
  • That day after practice, Earl was nominated to have a talk with me, which was pretty funny, since talking had never really been his thing.†   (source)
  • With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom suddenly looked like self-nomination for sainthood.†   (source)
  • I wasn't eligible to be nominated this time.†   (source)
  • John Adams, who had put Washington's name in nomination for the command, described him in a letter to his wife Abigail as amiable and brave.†   (source)
  • "If he gets his party's nomination for president, I'll put everything I've got into his opponent's campaign.†   (source)
  • When the nominated day arrived at last, we gathered in the Delf's stippled sunshine for what we fervently hoped wouldbe the last time.†   (source)
  • Nearer was an Oscar-nominated actor and well-known heroin addict in an eccentric outfit fumbled from the closet in a state of chemical bliss: black loafers without socks, green-plaid golf pants, a brown-checkered sports jacket, and a pale-blue denim shirt.†   (source)
  • "I nominate Andy for captain," someone shouted.†   (source)
  • Fine, I'll just give up my writing altogether, it's not like I was ever nominated for a National Book Award.†   (source)
  • So he nominated Derby, praising him for his maturity and long experience in dealing with people.†   (source)
  • His brother had sent him to Texas to gauge whether Johnson would run against Kennedy for the Democratic nomination in 1960.†   (source)
  • His work there had earned him a Pulitzer nomination and the Overseas Press Club Award.†   (source)
  • You don't hear Eisenhower saying nominate me for president, and I'll stop these crashes tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Many say that the notoriety he gained propelled him to the Democratic nomination and the governorship.†   (source)
  • Singer-songwriter and actor LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III has recorded more than twenty albums and was nominated for two Grammy Awards in the 1980s.†   (source)
  • "Why'd you nominate the moon landing?"†   (source)
  • But then he began to change his tune, especially after Clement L. Vallandigham was nominated for governor of Ohio on an antiwar platform, which "fell like a thunderbolt on this regiment," reported Welton.†   (source)
  • He had won the Republican nomination for the presidency in the spring.†   (source)
  • If he really has the right of nominating, in this respect his authority is equal to that of the President, and he exceeds it with the casting vote.†   (source)
  • Sir, if nominated, I shall repudiate it.†   (source)
  • He had narrow, pointy teeth, cowboy boots to match, and a letter "nominating" him to act on Grover's behalf, in all of Grover's "enterprises, interests, affairs, and loans."†   (source)
  • Randolph Rowzee Bragg, whose great-grandfather had been a United States Senator, whose grandfather had been chosen by President Wilson to represent his country as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extrordinary in time of war, whose father had been elected, without opposition, to half a dozen offices, Randolph was beaten five-to-one in the Democratic primaries for nomination to the state legislature.†   (source)
  • Exactly three years ago, on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States.†   (source)
  • "I nominate Ganesha," said Shiva.†   (source)
  • That's why it was so peculiar that she had been nominated; that was why she was extremely reluctant to believe that District had even had a hand in it.†   (source)
  • But Norris himself scoffed at the latter reports: I have no expectation of being nominated for President.†   (source)
  • I looked gratefully at the student who had nominated me.†   (source)
  • He's nominating you for some kind of prize."†   (source)
  • He also made a video of one of his songs, which was nominated for an award on VH-1.†   (source)
  • But, for the classmates who had nominated me, I had to look overjoyed.†   (source)
  • The possibility of rejection is a strong motive to be careful when nominating.†   (source)
  • He'd already been nominated for a Pulitzer when she'd still been in college.†   (source)
  • Adam, this is Bryn Shraeder, but you probably know her as the fox nominated for The Best Kiss Award.†   (source)
  • In this respect, there is no difference between nominating and appointing.†   (source)
  • First thing you know there will be a nominating committee.†   (source)
  • My husband and I got along well …. until I was nominated.†   (source)
  • Still, I was surprised I wasn't nominated for a single office; out of politeness—if not out of recognition of my faithfulness and my devotion— I thought I should have been nominated for something.†   (source)
  • I was nominated!†   (source)
  • I don't necessarily claim that this is an advantage; for example, it was of no particular help to me during last night's Vestry elections—I wasn't even nominated.†   (source)
  • Hugo's Jotun Jammers team nominated a guy named Kyle, who marched over to the skee-ball lane and scored a perfect thousand points.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit was nominated for the Santa Anita Handicap, to be run in March, but Howard had also named him for the Widener Challenge Cup at Florida's Hialeah Race Track.†   (source)
  • One of our previously recorded but never released songs had been put on the sound track for the movie Hello, Killer and was nominated for Best Song.†   (source)
  • Also, on July 2, to the surprise of many, Adams nominated George Washington as commander-in-chief of the new provisional army.†   (source)
  • He retired soon after the vote, only to be nominated as a justice to the Supreme Court by the newly elected president, Ulysses S. Grant.†   (source)
  • Instead of Murray alone serving as minister plenipotentiary, Adams nominated Patrick Henry and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth to join Murray as envoys to France, making a commission of three.†   (source)
  • "I can't believe you weren't nominated for Homecoming Queen this time, Casey," Jessica said from the backseat.†   (source)
  • When we were ready, Adam spoke on video, announced that it was time to carry out the Party's pledge of free elections, set a date, said that everybody over sixteen could vote, and that all anyone had to do to be a candidate was to get a hundred chops on a nominating petition and post it in Old Dome, or the public notice place for his warren.†   (source)
  • In 1981, I learned that the students at the University of London had nominated me as a candidate for the honorific post of university chancellor.†   (source)
  • He had nominated himself to order whatever food he could afford with twenty bucks, but refused when I asked if he wanted me to go with him.†   (source)
  • Against his better judgment, Adams agreed to try again, this time nominating Smith for a colonel's commission, which in spite of "warm opposition," the Senate approved.†   (source)
  • If a bad appointment is made, the Executive, for nominating, and the Senate, for approving, will share the blame.†   (source)
  • N 1824, with James 'Monroe due to retire from the presidency, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams was nominated as a candidate to replace him, exactly as long predicted.†   (source)
  • Abigail's nephew, William Cranch, who was nominated and approved for the circuit court of the District of Columbia, went on to have a distinguished fifty-year career, both as a judge and a court reporter.†   (source)
  • No man could be appointed without being nominated, so every man appointed will be the President's choice.†   (source)
  • Then, pointing to a door in the background; on the right side of the painting, he said only, "When I nominated George Washington of Virginia for Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, he took his hat and rushed out that door."†   (source)
  • With three others also nominated, and all, like John Quincy, avowed Republicans—William Crawford of Georgia, Henry Clay of Kentucky, and General Andrew Jackson of Tennessee—it became a crowded contest of "increasing heat."†   (source)
  • In the meantime I got my corporal's stripes, nominated by Jelly and confirmed by Captain Deladrier in the absence of a commissioned officer of our own.†   (source)
  • A man who has followed the political course I have is barred from the office…… I realize perfectly that no man holding the views I do is going to be nominated for the Presidency.†   (source)
  • "Al-Abbas," I said, "I nominate you for the role of annoying sister."†   (source)
  • If I nominate you,' the governor said, 'is there anything I should know?†   (source)
  • There was a pause, and then Damien said, "I nominate Erik Night?†   (source)
  • There were no further nominations, so the nominations were closed.†   (source)
  • "I nominate Lily," Wes called out, getting to his feet and stretching.†   (source)
  • "It's no secret DeBlass is front runner for the Conservative Party's nomination this summer.†   (source)
  • The Englishman called for nominations from the floor, and there weren't any.†   (source)
  • Is this the way you look for another Pulitzer nomination?†   (source)
  • The authorities asked us to nominate a spokesman to express our grievances, and I was chosen.†   (source)
  • The President should appoint them or, at least, nominate and supervise them.†   (source)
  • The President will nominate and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint.†   (source)
  • When Marshall said he did not know, Adams turned and declared, "I believe I must nominate you."†   (source)
  • The clerks of courts nominate special juries.†   (source)
  • And what if the Senate didn't approve the nomination?†   (source)
  • They wished to have the nomination retracted, which Adams refused to do.†   (source)
  • In many ways the nomination was inevitable.†   (source)
  • But the 1 power of nomination will have nearly all the same advantages.†   (source)
  • With the Senate's approval, the man he nominates will fill an office.†   (source)
  • But he only has the power of nomination, subject to the Senate's control.†   (source)
  • The public only knows that the governor claims the right of nomination.†   (source)
  • A future nomination might not be a more acceptable candidate.†   (source)
  • The Senate will probably be blamed for rejecting a good nomination.†   (source)
  • And his nomination will probably not be overruled very often.†   (source)
  • The President will be blamed for a bad nomination.†   (source)
  • The governor claims the right of nomination based on some ambiguous clauses in the constitution.†   (source)
  • The President will use his judgment when he nominates a candidate.†   (source)
  • Nomination produces all the good of an appointment and avoids most of its evils.†   (source)
  • In New York, if the council is divided, the governor can vote and confirm his own nomination.†   (source)
  • But no one knows when he actually nominates someone or when he is contradicted or opposed.†   (source)
  • In New York, the Executive has the total power of nomination.†   (source)
  • Star admitted to me that she had hesitated ten years before accepting the nomination.†   (source)
  • Jimmy Throxton's voice cut through the shouting, "I NOMINATE ROD WALKER!†   (source)
  • Okay, Waxie, you want to nominate somebody?†   (source)
  • Jiminy Throxton shouted, "I nominate Rod Walker!"†   (source)
  • Uh, Mr. Chairman, I nominate Caroline Mshiyeni.†   (source)
  • "Three nominations before the house," Kilroy announced.†   (source)
  • Nominations for temporary chairman are in order.†   (source)
  • Two nominations, Grant Cowper and Rod Walker.†   (source)
  • Are you ready with nominations for mayor?†   (source)
  • The chair will entertain nominations for mayor.†   (source)
  • If there is no objection, the chair rules debate closed and will entertain nominations.†   (source)
  • But I think we ought to have more nominations.†   (source)
  • "With exquisite delicacy and tact," Sullivan said, "Jefferey, at a meeting of the Committee, persuaded Daniel, come to Judgment, to add the Western men to the list of his nominations."†   (source)
  • But then on the night of the primary, Bubsy Ryan watched in disbelief as the returns from the black precincts went against him and gave the nomination to Lawton.†   (source)
  • And I proudly spoke in front of tens of thousands of people at INVESCO Field in Denver on a balmy August evening forty-five years to the day after Dr. Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at the historic March on Washington and just hours before President Barack Obama would take the same stage and at the same microphone proudly accept the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.†   (source)
  • I'm going to nominate Four," says Tori.†   (source)
  • I nominate Hilly Holbrook.†   (source)
  • Any nominations?†   (source)
  • I refuse my nomination.†   (source)
  • Indeed, had I been nominated for warden or deputy warden, I might have declined to accept the nomination.†   (source)
  • Then in March, Bobby Kennedy announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination; in the same month, President Johnson said he would not seek reelection.†   (source)
  • And then everything that happened after Christmas hastened a further decline in his relationship with Hester, who grew ever more radical in her opposition to the war, beginning in January, with McCarthy announcing his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.†   (source)
  • I nominate you.†   (source)
  • Grin out of the side of their mouths when the young lawyer, say, brings a sack of pecans to the kids in his district school-just before nominations for state senate, the sly devil-and say to one another, He's nobody's fool.†   (source)
  • Their relationship ramped up on July 15, 1960, the night he accepted the Democratic nomination for president.†   (source)
  • Mariah Carey, one of his favorites, is aced out on best album, the second to last award, leaving her with no Grammies despite six nominations.†   (source)
  • And the reason he was elected, the simple and obvious reason, was because Ernie wouldn't let us nominate him.†   (source)
  • With five years to go before the 1968 election, an article by Gore Vidal in Esquire magazine's March issue picks him to win the Democratic nomination over Lyndon Johnson.†   (source)
  • For Alex, this meant that in the month between her nomination and her confirmation hearing, she had to do whatever she could to placate five Republican men before they put her through the wringer.†   (source)
  • I plan to nominate you for King.†   (source)
  • But I am convinced of the support of the African masses for the strike and I challenge you to nominate any African township for a meeting and I guarantee the people will support me.†   (source)
  • But we were ready with our candidates…. and I must say my stilyagi did a smart job getting chops on nominations; our optings were posted the first day.†   (source)
  • He had been informed that day that the President would nominate John Quincy to be minister to the Netherlands.†   (source)
  • It was carried by a courier to the second-floor Senate Chamber, where an astonished Vice President interrupted the business on the floor to read it aloud: Always disposed and ready to embrace every plausible appearance of probability of preserving or restoring tranquility, I nominate William Vans Murray, our minister resident at The Hague, to be minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the French Republic.†   (source)
  • Who shall I nominate now?†   (source)
  • Most of the nominations for judges were made on February 20, the rest completed by February 24, more than a week in advance of the inauguration.†   (source)
  • To Madison he wrote that Adams had only made the nomination "hoping that his friends in the Senate would take on their own shoulders the odium of rejecting it."†   (source)
  • In its far-reaching importance to the country, Adams's appointment of Marshall was second only to his nomination of George Washington to command the Continental Army twenty-five years before.†   (source)
  • In a matter of days, Congress abrogated the French-American treaties of 1778, created a permanent Marine Corps, passed the Sedition Act, and approved the nomination of Washington as supreme commander.†   (source)
  • He deplored Adams's handling of relations with France, the "precipitate nomination" of William Vans _Murray, the firing of Timothy Pickering, the pardoning of John Fries.†   (source)
  • Nominate vs. No Approval Needed†   (source)
  • He would be afraid to nominate candidates with no other merit than coming from the same State, or being a personal ally, or being so pliant that they will always agree with him.†   (source)
  • The President is "to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not otherwise provided for in the Constitution.†   (source)
  • The President is to nominate and, with the advise and consent of the Senate, appoint ambassadors and other public ministers, Supreme Court judges, and all officers of the United States established by law and whose appointments are not otherwise provided for by the Constitution.†   (source)
  • Article 2, section 2, clause 2 gives the President of the United States the power "to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not in the Constitution otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law."†   (source)
  • The US Constitution makes it necessary to submit each nomination to the judgment of an entire house of the legislature.†   (source)
  • But he will make the next nomination.†   (source)
  • Candor, however, demands an acknowledgment that I do not think the governor has the right of nomination.†   (source)
  • The governor claims, and has frequently exercised, the right of nomination and is entitled to a casting vote in the appointment.†   (source)
  • When asked about them, the governor has blamed the members of the council who blamed it on his nomination.†   (source)
  • Some people say that the President's nomination power will influence the Senate to approve the nomination.†   (source)
  • It can only reject his nomination.†   (source)
  • His nomination might be overruled.†   (source)
  • But they won't be tempted to reject the nomination because they couldn't be sure that the person they wanted would be the second or any other nomination.†   (source)
  • Thoughtful Nomination†   (source)
  • The floor is open for nominations.†   (source)
  • Republican" was bitterly disappointed by his failure on three different occasions even to receive the nomination.†   (source)
  • It did not, after all the uproar, appear to affect the Republican sweep in 1946, nor was it—at least openly—an issue in Taft's drive for the Presidential nomination in 1948.†   (source)
  • Typical of Democratic reaction was the statement of Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, who called Taft's speech "a classical example of his muddled and confused thinking" and predicted it would "boomerang on his aspirations for the Presidential nomination of 1948.†   (source)
  • Capturing for his party control of both Houses of Congress would enhance Bob Taft's prestige, reinforce his right to the Republican Presidential nomination and pave the way for his triumphant return to the White House from which his father had been somewhat ingloriously ousted in 1912.†   (source)
  • In those years prior to the establishment of the T.V.A., the Senator from Nebraska was the nation's most outspoken advocate of public power; and he believed that the "monopolistic power trust" had dictated the nomination of Hoover and the Republican platform.†   (source)
  • Realizing that his departure from the Senate would give the Jacksonians greater strength on far more fundamental issues, and that his own political career, which already held promise of the Vice Presidential nomination, would be at least temporarily halted, John Tyler courageously followed his conscience and wrote the legislature these memorable words: I cannot and will not permit myself to remain in the Senate for a moment beyond the time that the accredited organs [of] the people of…†   (source)
  • The Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act could not have gained him many votes in industrialized Ohio, for those who endorsed its curbs on union activity were already Taft supporters; but it brought furious anti-Taft reprisals during the 1950 Senate campaign by the unions in Ohio, and it nourished the belief that Taft could not win a Presidential contest, a belief which affected his chances for the nomination in 1952.†   (source)
  • He could not receive the Presidential nomination he had so long desired; but neither could he ever put to rest the assertion, which was not only expressed by his contemporary critics but subsequently by several nineteenth-century historians, that his real objective in the Seventh of March speech was a bid for Southern support for the Presidency.†   (source)
  • The 1944 Republican Presidential nominee, and Taft's bitter rival for party control and the 1948 nomination, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, declared that the verdicts were justified; and in a statement in which the New York Republican nominee for the Senate, Irving Ives, joined, he stated: "The defendants at Nuremberg had a fair and extensive trial.†   (source)
  • "Me" "You want to nominate yourself?"†   (source)
  • I nominate Grant Cowper!†   (source)
  • I nominate him.†   (source)
  • Jimmy, your nomination is thrown out.†   (source)
  • The chair will entertam nominations forHey, Grant, if we don't call it 'captain,' then what should we call it?†   (source)
  • Move the nominations be closed.†   (source)
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