Sentence examples for be elected directly from from inspiring English sources

Remember, too, that Obama and Joe Biden were the first president and vice president to be elected directly from the Senate since 1960, and most of the senior aides they brought with them came from Capitol Hill.

There's a reason that four of the five last presidents were former governors, and that only two presidents in the last century were elected directly from the Senate.

Consultative Council members are elected directly from all provinces of the sultanate.

California has sent two Presidents to the White House--Richard Nixon in 1968 and 1972 and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984--but 1984--but 1984--but directly from the governeither.

Most of the Catlins falls in the Clutha District, based in Balclutha, and one of the council's fourteen representatives is elected directly from a Catlins Ward which is roughly coterminous with this area.

The SAMSON ballot measure would require that the mayor be elected directly by the voters, that the office be separate from the council and that council members be elected by wards.

Five years from now, he predicted, top people in the parliament would be elected directly on "Europe-wide" lists.

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.

The 1996 election was the first under a new system in which the Prime Minister was elected directly and separately from Parliament.

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.