Nominees meaning

The Lords of the Articles were restored, mere nominees of government.

These recommendations made by President Kruger's own nominees were practically ignored.

The judges are selected by Congress from lists of nominees submitted by the executive.

Each provincial administrative junta is composed, in part, of government nominees, and in larger part of elective elements, elected by the provincial council for four years, half of whom require to be elected every two years.

In 1886 he was elected mayor of New York City, his nomination having been forced upon the Democratic Party by the strength of the other nominees, Henry George and Theodore Roosevelt; his administration (1887-1888) was thoroughly efficient and creditable, but he broke with Tammany, was not renominated, ran independently for re-election, and was defeated.