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An act or instance of nominating.

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A device or means by which a person or thing is nominated.

The Senate elects a president, confirms or rejects the nominations of the governor, and acts as a court of impeachment for the trial of public officers, besides sharing in legislative functions.

Some of the nominations were excellent, such as Lorenzo Campeggio, Giambattista Pallavicini, Adrian of Utrecht, Cajetan, Cristoforo Numai and Egidio Canisio.

In Congress he was a consistent defender of sound money and civil service reform; in municipal politics he was in favour of business administrations and opposed to partisan nominations.

Moreover, as state officers were to be chosen at the same time that the constitution was voted on, disappointed candidates for party nominations fought against ratification.

He controls the expenditure of public money for school purposes, the examination and the appointment of teachers, whose nominations by the municipal school boards are referred to the commissioner.

In 1903 a law (revised in 1908) was passed providing for the conduct at public cost of primary elections for the nomination of nearly all elective officers, and for the nomination of delegates to party nominating conventions; nominations for primary elections are made by petitions signed by at least ten voters (except in very small election districts) who make affidavit as to their party affiliations; the nominee thus indorsed must file a letter of acceptance.

The influence of the Polignacs was now at its height, and they obtained large sums of money, a dukedom, and many nominations to places.

In 1812, after a congressional caucus at Washington had nominated Madison for a second term, the Republicans of New York, desiring to break up the so-called Virginia dynasty as well as the system of congressional nominations, nominated Clinton for the presidency by a legislative caucus.

There are many instances in American politics of nominations made solely on a war record which have led to hopeless defeat in election.

By an act approved on the 9th of April 1909 provision was made for direct nominations of candidates at primaries conducted by regular election officers.

He appoints some of the state officials, his nominations usually requiring the concurrence of the state senate; but his patronage is in most states not very largein many it is indeed insignificant because the offices of greatest importance are filled by direct popular election.

Through the power of confirming or rejecting the presidents nominations to office, the senators of the presidents party are able to influence a large amount of patronage.

This is the rule, but in some parts of the South and West nominations for members of the state legislature and county officials, and even for members of Congress, are made by primary assemblies meeting over the entire area, which all the party voters are entitled to attend.

Since 1874 the Democratic party has had constant control of the state administration, the Republicans failing to make nominations for office in 1878 and 1880 and endorsing the ticket ' The enrolment was 104,518 blacks and 61,295 whites.

The act applies to all public elections except that of town officers, and also covers nominations by caucuses and conventions as well.

They did not, however, renounce all intervention or all profit in the nominations to prelacies, but their intervention was no longer exhibited under the forms which the Hildebrandine party held to be illegal.

This undertaking, however, did not prevent him from bringing all his influence to bear upon the ecclesiastical nominations.

Nominations directly made by the court of Rome, especially in the case of dioceses long vacant, became increasingly numerous.

His nominations to the cardinalate were not happy.

With the view of terminating these differences the king in 1827 entered into a concordat with the pope, and an agreement was reached with regard to nominations to bishoprics, clerical education and other questions, which should have satisfied all reasonable men.

The direct primary law, however, which was passed immediately afterwards by the legislature, was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of the state, as were a second law of the same sort passed soon afterwards and a third law of 1908, which provided for direct nominations of all officers and an "advisory" nomination of United States senators.

He soon became prominent as one of the leaders of the Democratic party in the state, and for many years was a member of the so-called "Albany Regency," a group of Democrats who between about 1820 and 1850 exercised a virtual control over their party in New York, dictating nominations and appointments and distributing patronage.

Candidates are nominated in writing by a nomination paper signed by a proposer and seconder, and subscribed by eight other assenting county electors of the division; and in the event of there being more valid nominations than vacancies a poll has to be taken in the manner prescribed by the Ballot Act 1872.

The powers of the houses are the same, except that the Senate confirms or rejects the governor's nominations and sits as an impeachment court, while the Representatives initiate impeachments.

Like pashas they rarely held their office more than three years, it being the natural policy of the Porte to multiply such lucrative nominations.

In 1908 a direct primary law was passed applicable to all nominations except for presidential electors, school district officers and officers in cities of less than 5000 inhabitants; like public elections the primaries are made a public charge; nomination is by petition signed by a certain percentage (for state office, at least 1%; for district office, at least 2%; for sub-district or county office, at least 3%) of the party vote; the direct nominating system applies to the candidates for the United States Senate, the nominee chosen by the direct primaries of each party being the nominee of the party.

The ticket is made up of as many coloured sheets as there are party organizations (plus one for independent nominations), and the name of each candidate is on a perforated slip, which must be detached if it is to be voted.

A fourth unusual feature is that South Carolina has applied the principle of direct primary nominations to all elective officials from governor down.

In the same year the state enacted a law providing for the non-partisan nomination of all judges, of all superintendents of public instruction and of regents of the state university; nominations are by petition, and there is a separate " official non-partisan ballot " bearing the names and addresses of the nominees and the titles of the office for which they are nominated.

To find out about the 2003 awards click here For more information please email charlotte Nominations close on Friday 9th July.

Out of 500 nominations in the environment category alone, Samuel's work clearly impressed judges who personally congratulated him for his outstanding contribution.

All parties to the machinery have agreed a further closing date for the submitting of nominations, Monday 10 May 2004.

Three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize came to the great educationist in her final years.

Once again it is time to invite nominations to the Council of Management.

All members of staff are eligible to submit nominations.

Hairnet UK Ltd are still seeking nominations for the UK Silver Surfer of the Year 2004.

We also accept nominations for homeless people from the Local Authority.

The Convener of the Panel will approve the nominations.

For each post ' Re-open nominations ' shall be the first candidate.

Shortlisted nominations for the event have now been announced, and regional publishers and titles feature in the majority of the 12 categories.

If insufficient nominations are received, the Chairman can invite nominations from the floor at the AGM.

The award follows her Best Supporting actress nominations at the Oscars and Golden Globes for her critically acclaimed performance in ' Chicago ' .

Written or faxed nominations must be signed by the nominee.

We are proudly leading the field for nominations are with a staggering total of 14 nominations.

An obvious first step in genuinely trying to identify a coordinator would probably be to solicit nominations from each of the three groups.

But even their efforts were surpassed by the quality of programs that made it through to final nominations.

Born in 1956, Thomas Jeffrey Hanks went from dressing in drag on the sitcom Bosom Buddies to earning five Academy Award nominations and two of the actual awards.

This is just a small sample of Winfrey's awards, nominations, and accolades.

Clooney's nominations made history as he became the first person ever to be nominating for acting in one movie and directing in a different movie.

Fawcett has received three Emmy Award nominations - for her work on the 1984 television movie The Burning Bed, the miniseries Small Sacrifices, and her role on The Guardian in 2004.