Get to know Bork better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
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Bork meaning
To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
Using Bork
- The main meaning on this page is: To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
- In the example corpus, bork often appears in combinations such as: robert bork, bork to, to bork.
Context around Bork
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bork
- In this selection, "bork" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, robert, allow, prosecutor, chose, scored and intercepted stand out and add context to how "bork" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and reghan bork of luverne and ensuing possession bork intercepted the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bork" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bork
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Senate rejected Robert Bork after contentious hearings. (8 words)
The Victor Borga version of Bork died a njmber of years ago. (12 words)
That is the date on which President Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. (15 words)
He carried this with him during his 36 years in the Senate, when he led the tanking of Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in proceedings that poisoned the judicial confirmation process for decades while palling around with Sen. (41 words)
Future failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork then carried out the order—but the firing of Cox didn’t stop Nixon from being forced to resign in disgrace the following year. (31 words)
Like in all blood feuds, each side has its own story of how it all began, which goes back nearly 40 years: You blocked Bork. (25 words)
Example sentences (16)
He needed to allow Bork to appoint a new special prosecutor; Bork chose Leon Jaworski to continue the investigation.
He carried this with him during his 36 years in the Senate, when he led the tanking of Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in proceedings that poisoned the judicial confirmation process for decades while palling around with Sen.
And to be fair to Bork, when he wants to, his matches tend to bring it, especially if he’s excited by the opponent.
Future failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork then carried out the order—but the firing of Cox didn’t stop Nixon from being forced to resign in disgrace the following year.
Like in all blood feuds, each side has its own story of how it all began, which goes back nearly 40 years: You blocked Bork.
That is the date on which President Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
Tyson Bork scored four touchdowns in the showdown, on runs of 95, 12, 3 and 23 yards.
On the ensuing possession, Bork intercepted the Jaguars’ Owen Wolter on the first play of the drive.
Other area players named all-conference hockey are Kamryn Van Batavia and Reghan Bork of Luverne, and Anna Volk of Windom Area.
Thus, it recently tarred VanDyke as “Not Qualified,” just as it once did to Robert Bork.
And we’re supposed to Bork him out of the Court for this cheesecloth allegation.
The Senate rejected Robert Bork after contentious hearings.
The Victor Borga version of Bork died a njmber of years ago.
Rejections are relatively uncommon; the Senate has explicitly rejected twelve Supreme Court nominees, most recently Robert Bork in 1987.
Robert Bork 's Slouching Toward Gomorrah and Allan Bloom 's The Closing of the American Mind are famous expressions of this point of view.
Upon further study, Bork later ascribed a meaning to the Ninth Amendment in his book The Tempting of America.
Common combinations with bork
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- robert bork 6×
- bork to 2×
- to bork 2×
- tyson bork 2×