Sentence examples for an elected post from inspiring English sources

Gavron lost her job as deputy mayor the day Livingstone lost the election in May: the deputy is a mayoral appointment, not an elected post.

Mr. Baretto is the Rupununi district chairman, an elected post similar to a state governor in the United States, and a former "touchau," or chief, of his village near Lethem.

He said RoadTrip 2015 was embarrassing – a bunch of kids bussed in from the south who often knew nothing about local issues – and suggested that the chairman of the Conservative party should be an elected post.

He had also wanted to create an elected post of vice-president.

Obama didn't mince words when the discussion turned to politics and a voice from the crowd interrupted to ask why she wouldn't seek an elected post.

The council voted unanimously Monday to change the city treasurer's position, an elected post, to part-time and move many of the position's duties not specifically outlined in the City Charter to the Finance Department.

Previously, the committee's chairman was hand-picked by the party leader, but dissenters managed this year to make the post an elected position.

Since 2002, he has served as comptroller, a powerful citywide elected post.

Nobel laureate and political activist Wole Soyinka has put himself forward as one of three candidates for the position of Oxford professor of poetry, a 300-year-old elected post which is seen as the top academic poetry role in the UK.

Mr Brown was forced to withdraw his nomination for the elected post following a tense meeting with the new leader.

Illinois voters do not register by party, but the state has leaned overwhelmingly Democratic in recent years; the party holds every statewide elected post and a majority in both chambers of the state legislature.