Sentence examples for be elected directly by from inspiring English sources

Five seats would be elected directly by the public.

Instead of just pooling votes from the different regions, the group proposes that a tenth of the federal parliament would be elected directly by all Belgians.

Yao Ming, the 7ft 6in center from Shanghai who went No1 in the 2002 NBA draft and made eight NBA All-Star teams with the Houston Rockets, was already a finalist and could be elected directly by the International Committee.

The Lucknow Pact called first of all for the creation of expanded provincial legislative councils, four-fifths of whose members should be elected directly by the people on as broad a franchise as possible.

One student leader, Heshamtollah Tabarzadi, was beaten and his newspaper closed down late last year when he said that the leader should be elected directly by the people for a limited term, rather than by an elected Assembly of Experts with religious credentials.

That the lower house was to be elected directly by the voters was also accepted without major dispute.

TUNIS — Tunisia's ruling coalition said early Sunday that it had agreed to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on June 23, with the president being elected directly by voters.

In the Basque Country, provincial councils are elected directly by universal adult suffrage.

The president, who serves a five-year term, is elected directly by a popular vote.

Under the Cleisthenic constitution (508 c. 487), archons were elected directly by the Ecclesia; later they were chosen by lot from 500 previously elected candidates.

For the first time a leader had been elected directly, by party members and supporters, who was not part of a small circle of Labour's frontbench.