13 Metaphors for elector

His commissioners, under a form of election in which the electors were carefully selected men, established municipal governments devoted to the cause of the revolution.

What presidents have been elected for a second term? How many presidential electors is this state entitled to?

The speaker is an old soldier giving reminiscences of his boyhood: "Our Elector was a fine gentleman, a great lover of the arts, and himself very clever with his fingers.

The population, chiefly and traditionally Protestant, probably sympathized with Prussia more than with Austria, although the Elector himself was Catholic,that inglorious monarch who resembled in his gallantries Louis XV., and in his dilettante tastes Leo X. He is chiefly known for the number of his concubines and his Dresden gallery of pictures.

The new Elector of Bavaria is French, like his father; and the King of Spain is not dead.

The Elector, with throat half bare, his plumed hat decorated with sprigs of fir, as is the way of hunters, was seated beside Lady Heloise, who had been the first love of his early youth.

But this success did one piece of service to the Swedes, that it brought the French into the war on their side, for the Elector of Treves was their confederate.

Every elector, it was well known, would be a Republican, and as such would vote for the reëlection of Monroe and Tompkins.

I am talking calmly: Our people, our electors are merely sheep, but we wish to make men of them, and therein lies our strength.

The population, chiefly and traditionally Protestant, probably sympathized with Prussia more than with Austria, although the Elector himself was Catholic,that inglorious monarch who resembled in his gallantries Louis XV., and in his dilettante tastes Leo X. He is chiefly known for the number of his concubines and his Dresden gallery of pictures.

The election takes place at the court-house of the town; the electors are the gobernadorcillo whose office is about to expire, and twelve of the oldest headmen, cabezas de barangay, collectors of tribute for the gobernadorcillo they must select, by a plurality of votes, three individuals, who must be able to speak, read, and write the Spanish language.

Besides, the elector of Hanover, as elector of Hanover, is an arbitrary prince; his electoral army is the instrument of that power; as king of Great Britain he is a restrained monarch.

He happened to visit King William III of England, and was very much offended because during the interview, the king occupied a comfortable arm chair, while the elector, being simply a count, was given a chair to sit in which was straight-backed and had no arms.

13 Metaphors for  elector