Sentence examples for ago elected from inspiring English sources

They long ago elected the star graduate of Chicago's Democratic machine, Barack Obama.

FIVE years ago, elected officials and developers had high hopes for the 2.2-square-mile riverfront village of Haverstraw in Rockland County.

Weiss and Barrow were long ago elected to the Hall, as were Miller Huggins and Joe McCarthy, two of the managers during Ruppert's reign.

Not so long ago, elected officials like Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, were closeted; Mr. Frank did not come out until 1987, seven years after winning his House seat.

On Tuesday, the Episcopal church in America approved a ceremony to bless same-sex couples in the latest step toward accepting homosexuality by a denomination that nine years ago elected its first openly gay bishop.

The 40th Council District is a largely Caribbean enclave of Flatbush and East Flatbush, an area that 10 years ago elected the first Jamaican-born woman to serve in the City Council, Una S. T. Clarke.

Majewski: We have, as of our last election, which was a couple of weeks ago, we elected a Muslim-majority council.

I, too, made that assumption when I suffered from recurrent lower-back pain twenty years ago and elected to have a fusion.

Antonio Navarro, a congressman and former guerrilla leader who made peace a dozen years ago, was elected to the Senate with the second-highest vote.

Eight years ago, we elected a president on likeability, and we got one who misguided the nation into war and debt.

The bank, run by Jamie Dimon, couldn't agree on a price with the Treasury a few months ago and elected to have the warrants auctioned off.