4537 examples of elected in sentences

A French-Canadian member was nominated for the speakership and elected unanimously.

So long as they are mere representatives, elected by the whims of universal suffrage, their meaning will be a perfect volatile, and to cork it up for the next century is an employment sufficiently silly (to speak within bounds) for a modern Bible Dictionary maker.

At the end of October 1912 he was elected, against the opposition, as president of China, and the new state was recognized by foreign countries.

By general consent he was elected Governor, and at once proceeded to restore order.

" "And the real reason?" "Of the three justices, one of them was elected on our ticket; another is a personal friend of Judge MacFarlane.

"Hain't heard who's selected town-clerk?" "No." Had they elected Eliphalet, and so expressed their settled distrust of him, and sympathy for the man whom he had injured?

"Who's elected?" he asked, harshly.

Deserted Parks""Syzygies"Circus childrenRow-loving undergraduatesA letter to The ObserverResignation of the LectureshipHe is elected Curator of the Common RoomDream-music.

Last of all came "The Blank Cheque, a Fable," in reference to the building of the New Schools, for the expenses of which it was actually proposed (in 1874), to sign a blank cheque before any estimate had been made, or any plan laid before the University, and even before a committee had been elected to appoint an architect for the work.

Deserted Parks""Syzygies"Circus childrenRow-loving undergraduatesA letter to The ObserverResignation of the LectureshipHe is elected Curator of the Common RoomDream-music.

The latter had seen some service and was elected captain.

But 'logical' democrats still argue in America that, because all men are equal, political offices ought to go by rotation, and 'logical' collectivists sometimes argue from the 'principle' that the State should own all the means of production to the conclusion that all railway managers should be elected by universal suffrage.

It did not then seem to matter much whether the areas chosen were new or old, or whether the body elected had other duties or not.

There will be more 'bureaucracy' than would be desirable if it were not for the need of economising the energies of the elected representatives, and less bureaucracy than there would be if it were not desirable to retain popular sympathy and consent.

Here resides the Deputy-Surveyor, who administers under the Crown, while six elected Verderers, in their courts of Swain-mote, represent the Commoners.

About this time my father was elected Member of Parliament; our home was broken up, and we went to London.

" When a remote cousin of Lord Henniker was elected to the Head Mastership of Rossall, a disappointed competitor said that it was a case of [Greek: eneka tou kuriou]; but a Greek joke is scarcely fair play.

Senators to be elected by vote of the people.

Since the day when Abraham Lincoln was elected President there had been absolutely no change of word or act in the attitude and intention of himself or his followers.

It's a heap more the man that's elected than it is the party.

"After the war my father was elected [HW: Hempstead] County Clerk in 1872 on the Republican ticket.

They proclaimed their union with Greece, and elected deputies to the Parliament at Athens.

Not alone on account of its temporary political importance did it advance, for about this time Plausaby got himself elected a director of the St. Paul and Big Gun River Valley Land Grant Railroad, and the speculators, who scent a railroad station at once, began to buy lotson long time, to be sure, and yet to buy them.

The officers elected all serve without pay excepting the secretary-treasurer, who receives a small fee for his services.

Railroads even had their agents in the primaries, entered political conventions, dictated nominations from the lowest office up to that of governor, and elected judges and legislators.

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