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Example sentences for "nominee"

Lexicographically close words:
nomination; nominations; nominative; nominatives; nomine; nominees; nominibus; nominis; nomme; nommer
  1. The kings preserved, it is true, the privilege of confirming the new appointment, and the nominee was not considered properly qualified until he had received his investiture from the sovereign.

  2. John Tyler of Virginia was the nominee of the bolting Democrats, for vice-president upon the ticket with White.

  3. The court cannot now peremptorily challenge the nominee in the arbitrary mode adopted in that instance.

  4. But the Pope, who alone could make an Emperor, was the nominee of a Roman faction, headed by the ambitious Alberic the Senator who aspired to build up a secular lordship on the basis of the Papal patrimony.

  5. Any political crisis suggested to them the idea of a mutiny led by the general, sometimes to obtain arrears of pay and donatives, sometimes to put their nominee upon the throne.

  6. But even in St. Bernard's time, and even when the reigning Pope was his nominee or pupil, there was a certain divergence between the theories for which he stood and the actual policy of the Curia.

  7. We could not support Howell Cobb, of Georgia, the nominee of the Democratic party, however anxious our Democratic constituents might be to have us do so; nor could we vote for Robert C.

  8. Palfrey, then actively interested in anti-slavery politics, and Charles Francis Adams, the Free Soil nominee for Vice President in 1848, with whom I dined at the old Adams mansion in Quincy a few days later.

  9. It was wholly unhampered by a Southern wing; and even should the nominee betray the men who now trusted him, their choice of him, as their standard bearer, would be vindicated by the circumstances of the hour.

  10. But as the nominee of his party, fairly committed to its principles and measures touching the unsettled questions of reconstruction and suffrage, I saw no other practicable alternative than to give him my support.

  11. Stewart, his nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, from the disability wisely imposed by the Act of Congress of 1789, forbidding the appointment to that position of any one engaged "in carrying on the business of trade or commerce.

  12. Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama, are the only four States we concede to the Cincinnati nominee and one of these, we confidently expect to carry.

  13. A Brief history of the American nominee for the Presidency is this: He was born in the year 1800, in Cayuga county, New York, and is now fifty-six years of age.

  14. In that State the candidate for the United States Senate is nominated the same as any other candidate, the names of each successful primary nominee going on the regular ballot the same as that of any candidate for State office.

  15. Hilborn be the caucus nominee for Secretary of the Senate, and J.

  16. Then, in 1906, they induced Bell to run against the "regular" machine nominee for the State Senate.

  17. As early as 1670, in the celebrated Bates case, the English court held that a teacher could not be dispossessed from his school for teaching without the Bishop's license, if he were the nominee of the founder or patron.

  18. It is not probable that Lincoln expected to be in 1860 the nominee of the republican party.

  19. The election of the Pope was now put into the hands of the Roman cardinal-bishops,[439:4] who were to submit their nominee to the lower clergy and the people for approval.

  20. Like the Patriarch of Constantinople the Pope was now the nominee of the Emperor and could be removed at the pleasure of the prince.

  21. After a brief struggle, in which the temple of Jerusalem was stormed by the Romans, he installed his nominee as High Priest at the head of the local government.

  22. The new princeps (Publius Helvius Pertinax, a senator of low birth but proved military capacity) was the nominee of Laetus.

  23. In two campaigns Corbulo was able to occupy the country and set up a Roman nominee as the Armenian king (60 A.

  24. The year 68-69 witnessed the accession of four emperors, each the nominee of the soldiery.

  25. Through the influence of his supporters Caesar was easily elected but his colleague was Calpurnius Bibulus, the nominee of the Optimates.

  26. Tiberius placed a Roman nominee on the Armenian throne, and received from the Parthian king, Phraates IV, the Roman standards and captives in Parthian hands, a success which earned Augustus the salutation of imperator from his troops.

  27. As long as a certain set could make it be believed that he was the Duke's nominee they were content to accept him;--even though he was not proposed directly by the Duke's people in the usual way.

  28. He had been the guest of the Prime Minister, and had been the nominee chosen by a Duchess to represent her husband's borough in Parliament.

  29. On various occasions the House decided in favour of the popularly elected candidate against the nominee of the town council, on the general principle that neither the royal charter nor a by-law could curtail this particular franchise.

  30. Roman Catholicism, secured the election of his nominee Prijesda to the banate.

  31. It was a three-cornered fight, with Henry George as the nominee of a United Labor Party on a single-tax platform, and Abram S.

  32. The General is delighted, since the elevation of nominee Van Buren provides for a continuation of his darling policies.

  33. Nominee Van Buren is elected to succeed the General in the White House, and every friend of the latter votes for the little polite man of Kinderhook.

  34. He expected to support the nominee of the Convention, but would not agree in advance that whatever it might do should have his endorsement.

  35. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio against Rutherford B.

  36. He was declared by formal vote to be the nominee of the Convention.

  37. At this period mention was again made in the newspapers of my name as the nominee of the Republican party for President in the next year.

  38. My name was mentioned as a candidate, and it was generally supposed that one of the three would be the nominee of the Republican convention.

  39. Grow and myself, and it was agreed between us that whichever received a majority of the Republican vote should be considered as the nominee of that party.

  40. The strength of my candidacy was that New York was unanimously for me, except for one vote from New York City, and no nominee could hope to be elected unless he could carry New York.

  41. Hoffman, the most popular among the younger Democrats, was their nominee for governor.

  42. I was elected as the presiding officer of the Liberal Republican convention and also was made unanimously its nominee for lieutenant-governor.

  43. The cheering for the nominee was yet at its flood when Bannister leaped at Colonel Sommerton and grasped his hand.

  44. If Tom Bannister had been boisterously applauded before this, it was as nothing beside the noise which followed when Colonel Mobley Sommerton was declared the unanimous nominee of the convention.

  45. Mr. Chairman, I move that Colonel Peavy and Amos Ridings escort the nominee to the platform.

  46. I present, as nominee for our next representative, Bradley Talcott, of Rock River.

  47. Jacopo di Saviello, thus described as a nominee of the King of Naples, is a person without much importance, touching whose individuality it would take too much space to inquire.

  48. Four years later came the memorable series of debates between Lincoln and Douglas, each being the nominee of his party for the United States Senate.

  49. They received a cordial welcome; and no one could detect in the nominee any unusual elation nor any deviation from his usual plain and modest deportment.

  50. The triumph of Wilkes had been driven home by the election of a nominee of the great agitator as his colleague on a fresh vacancy in the representation of Middlesex.

  51. I will only say that the first in the ring is the nominee of our friend and host, Sir Timothy Brast; second comes the nominee of Lord Meadowson.


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    Other words:
    agent; assignee; candidate; deputy