| choose nominee | 2.83 | The nominee must be chosen unanimously. | ||
| reject nominee | 2.50 | Lawmakers reject premier nominee. | ||
| select nominee | 2.04 | An Academy committee selects the nominees. | ||
| announce nominee | 1.97 | Nominees were announced Thursday. | ||
| confirm nominee | 1.97 | The nominees then were confirmed. | ||
| pick nominee | 1.32 | As we speak, the process of picking the nominees is under way. | ||
| support nominee | 1.12 | Bush also pledged to support the nominee. | ||
| approve nominee | 1.05 | The three nominees were all approved by the American Bar Association. | ||
| block nominee | 0.92 | Still, any senator can single-handedly block a nominee. | ||
| submit nominee | 0.86 | The president has two weeks to submit a nominee to the Duma. | ||
| consider nominee | 0.79 | Oscar nominees are automatically considered for membership in the following year. | ||
| have nominee | 0.72 | Each category has five nominees. | ||
| review nominee | 0.59 | An international master jury meets in Geneva to review the nominees and make an initial cut. | ||
| defeat nominee | 0.53 | Democratic filibusters have never defeated a nominee. | ||
| oppose nominee | 0.53 | Communist Party leader to oppose presidential nominee. | ||
| name nominee | 0.46 | If Cooley were to step down after the primary, the party could name a nominee. | ||
| accept nominee | 0.33 | It rejected Amporn while accepting four nominees from the Supreme Court. | ||
| appoint nominee | 0.33 | Shah won and his nominees were appointed. | ||
| lead nominee | 0.33 | Faith Hill leads all nominees with six. | ||
| abandon nominee | 0.26 | In the White House, aides said Clinton is especially sensitive to abandoning prospective nominees because of the criticism leveled at him in his first term. |