Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
indicated an openness
Does "indicated an openness" mean "showed a friendly gesture"?
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Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), one of just two Senate Republicans who have indicated an openness to even having a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, had a message for his GOP colleagues on Friday: give Garland a vote.
“We should go through the process the Constitution has already laid out. The president has already laid out a nominee who is from Chicagoland and for me, I’m open to see him, to talk to him, and ask him his views on the Constitution,” Kirk explained in a radio interview on WLS-AM’s Big John Howell Show.
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Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), one of just two Senate Republicans who have indicated an openness to even having a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, had a message for his GOP colleagues on Friday: give Garland a vote.
“We should go through the process the Constitution has already laid out. The president has already laid out a nominee who is from Chicagoland and for me, I’m open to see him, to talk to him, and ask him his views on the Constitution,” Kirk explained in a radio interview on WLS-AM’s Big John Howell Show.
Top answer
No, it means that with what he said, he indicated that he would welcome a discussion on the topic; he would participate in a hearing for the nominee (others are not even willing to talk about it).
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No, it means that with what he said, he indicated that he would welcome a discussion on the topic; he would participate in a hearing for the nominee (others are not even willing to talk about it).
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