Sentence examples for as directly elected from inspiring English sources

Some of his ideas made it into the 2005 manifesto, such as directly elected police chiefs.

Chairman of the independent panel David James said there were big differences between Mr Anderson's role as leader of Liverpool City Council and the new one as directly elected mayor.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, speaks of a future "political union" with a strong parliament as well as a directly elected commission president.For others, the parliament is not the solution but part of the problem.

He was a member of the Scottish parliament from its inception in 1999 until the time of his death, either as a directly elected MSP or as a "regional list" member for Lothian under the system of proportional representation.

When the GLC was abolished in 1986 and Ilea was reconstituted as a directly elected authority, Morrell easily won the Islington South and Finsbury seat.

Some time ago, I happened to say the only way I'd ever go back into politics would be as a directly elected mayor.

Johnson has thrived as a directly elected London mayor but, like Ken Livingstone, struggled in the Commons, having been famous before he arrived.

As with directly elected mayors – an idea which tanked badly in last week's city referendums – most constitutional reforms are not panaceas but substitutes for the less glamorous, more arduous tasks of good government.

Judge Daniel Serota said Mr Anderson - who can claim an annual allowance of nearly £80,000 as the directly elected mayor - started work at the school in 2001 when it was under local authority control.

Its mayor, chosen by the 163 councillors of Paris, who are directly elected (as are the mayors and 354 councillors of the capital's 20 arrondissements), controls an annual budget of FFr29 billion ($4 billion).

"Sticking points are understood to include a proposal to extend directly elected mayors, as well as plans to end 'council houses for life'," Waugh writes.