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How to use the word nominate in a Sentence? Page #3

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The Board aims to nominate my successor during 2017 but the exact timing is clearly dependent upon identifying and securing the appropriate candidate.

Douglas Flint

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is my intention to nominate somebody who has impeccable credentials, somebody who should be a consensus candidate.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Donald Trump was able to impress David Duke to the point where David Duke said, 'I could support that guy,' i think it's a huge mistake for Republicans to nominate someone who could impress David Duke because if you can do that, you're not going to grow this party.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

(CNN anchor) Bernard Shaw -- we saw him on television -- said, 'They're going to nominate Judge Breyer.' Then I heard nothing for three hours, they're saying this on television, but no one's told me.

Stephen Breyer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If the other candidates can find common ground, I believe we can nominate a person who can win the general election and who will represent the values and policies of conservatism.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It picks at what's been a very, very bad scab for Republicans for a long time, i think the party if they nominate him will be committing an abortion on itself.

Doug Heye

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What I’m doing is attempting to amplify the discussion, the Academy can only nominate quality work that is made, so the onus still has to be on Hollywood to put those films out there.

April Reign

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we nominate Donald, we end up electing Hillary as president.

Ted Cruz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Presidents have a right to nominate just as the Senate has its constitutional right to provide or withhold consent, in this case, the Senate will withhold it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe the only way to beat the Democrats is to nominate a candidate who has a significantly different record.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

His ideas don't work. i probably would take the opportunity to nominate someone. Doesn't necessarily mean that person will be acted on or confirmed.

Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Now Many Republicans say they ’ll reject anyone President Obama nominates, no matter how qualified. Some are even saying he does n’t have the right to nominate anyone. As if somehow he’s not the real president, you know, that’s in keeping with what we’ve heard all along, is n’t it ? Many Republicans talk in coded racial language about takers and losers. They demonize President President Obama and encourage the ugliest impulses of the paranoid fringe. This kind of hatred and bigotry has no place in our politics or our country.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I understand the stakes, i understand the pressure that Republican senators are undoubtedly under ... And there are a lot of Republican senators who are going to be under a lot of pressure from various special interests and various constituencies and many of their voters to not let any nominee go through. No matter who I nominate. But that's not the way the system is supposed to work.

President Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It kind of begs the question -- why this President, why this President should not be able to nominate, and they should not be able to consider.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now, when there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the president of the United States is to nominate someone. The Senate is to consider that nomination.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The Supreme Court is not an extension of the White House. The President has absolutely every right to nominate someone to the Supreme Court, but Congress as an equal branch also has every right not to confirm someone.

House Speaker Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To me, it makes sense to nominate one of the stellar judges he's already chosen who has been approved by this same Senate that now refuses to act.

David Axelrod

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Barack Obama is president of the United States until January 20, 2017, that is a fact, my friends, whether the Republicans like it or not. Elections have consequences. The President has a responsibility to nominate a new justice and the Senate has a responsibly to vote. And all of us Democrats, we have a responsibly to make sure a Republican doesn't win in November and rip away all of the progress we have made together.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I have no illusions that your man will nominate someone who shares my orientation, but I hope he sends us someone smart.

Justice Antonin Scalia

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Elections have consequences, the President has a responsibility to nominate a new justice and the Senate has a responsibly to vote. And all of us Democrats we have a responsibly to make sure a Republican doesn't win in November and rip away all of the progress we have made together.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The president should go forward and nominate the most liberal candidate possible.

Jim Manley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He could nominate a more liberal candidate who would have no real chance of getting through a Republican Senate - in which case this would become a salient political issue in 2016.

Rick Hasen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The next president must nominate a justice who will continue Justice Scalia's unwavering belief in the founding principles that we hold dear.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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