Mr. Greenspan has not been available for interviews since his nomination last Tuesday.

In addition, several tangential, and in some cases new issues have been raised about Mr. Gates since his nomination.

He has been Acting Commissioner since his nomination in August.

In the interviews she has given since her nomination, she has had difficulty uttering coherent unscripted responses about the most basic issues of the day.

Since his nomination, successive polls have shown Duguay and his party improving in public opinion.

She'd been encouraging him to throw his name into the hat ever since her nomination to the federal bench.

Ms. Reno has declined to give interviews since her nomination.

In the fifteen years since his nomination to the Concilium, he had served unobtrusively, almost negligently, as a simple magnate-at-large.

University officials said that Ms. Lin, who has been maintaining a low profile since her nomination in February, declined to be interviewed.

Since her nomination to the court in 1992, Hunstein has been re-elected by voters three times, most recently in November 2006.