Put forward; specify

Usage examples of nominate.

He would be officially nominated for the Ambassadorship by Ra-ghoratrei, but the nomination must be approved by the Federation Council.

President Clinton nominated Inman to replace Les Aspin as secretary of defense.

Goldsborough, of the navy, was nominated to the Senate for continuance as the flag-officer in command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, which recently rendered such important service to the Union in the expedition to the coast of North Carolina.

This last commission, having been issued during the recess of the Senate, expired at the end of the succeeding session, 17th July, 1862, from which date, not having been nominated to the Senate, he ceased to be a commander in the navy.

We hereby nominate our faithful charger Copula Felix hereditary Grand Vizier and announce that we have this day repudiated our former spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the princess Selene, the splendour of night.

And when a young Haitian-born lawyer was nominated to the same Bayfront Trust, Dawkins similarly questioned the color of his skin.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Once a new idea or discovery was nominated, the internal Lucent business groups were given first priority over the technology.

We ranges up and down and backward and forward over the main trunk lines and the branches of the victual subject, and Mame leads the game, for she is apprised in the ramifications of grub, and the dishes she nominates aggravates my yearnings.

Orkid had been told by Usharna that Northam had not nominated Powl as his successor.

Davis came to the aid of his Kentucky colleague by moving an amendment, to come in as an additional Article, being a new plan of Presidential election designed to do away with the quadrennial Presidential campaign before the People by giving to each State the right to nominate one candidate, and leaving it to a Convention of both Houses of Congress-- and, in case of disagreement, to the Supreme Court of the United States --to elect a President and a Vice-President.

Beltway insiders dismissed Breland as a light-weight and discounted his chances of making it as far as the nominating convention, he was good copy - as quotable as he was quixotic.

Melanie Rawn and Kate Elliott, which was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1997.

Finally she nominated Rial to speak for the Lirin, citing his knowledge of the details of the war and his current status as viceroy of Tyrian.

In 1663, Sprat was nominated for membership in the Royal Society with the provision that he would write a history of the Society to help it defend itself against its religious detractors.