Sentence examples for be elected from a from inspiring English sources

After the war's end, the next president to be elected from a former Confederate state was Johnson, a Texan, in 1964.

So, in January 1987, he announced that, in future, candidates for senior party posts would be elected from a list, instead of being appointed by a cabal.

The UK's next judge on the European court of human rights (ECtHR) will be elected from a shortlist of candidates including a prominent human rights lawyer, a commercial barrister and a Strasbourg veteran.

Among the 22 statewide delegates, no more than two can be elected from an individual county and seven from a congressional district.

The speaker of the House of Representatives is the first Jew to hold the job in 164 years of statehood and only the second speaker to be elected from an urban district in modern times.

Since 1992, members of the Assembly have been elected by the Hare-Clark proportional representation system from three multi-member electorates, which replaced the modified D'Hondt method used in the inaugural election, in which the 17 representatives were elected from a territory-wide electorate.

Like the president and vice-president, the 24 senators are elected from a single, nationwide constituency.

Senators, however, are not susceptible to that sort of manipulation, since they are elected from a single, nationwide district.

The upper-house Legislative Council was elected from a narrow franchise base and had much power to obstruct legislation.

He was elected from a largely Jewish Montreal constituency and remained there throughout his years as Prime Minister.

Traditionally, the king was elected from a particular family by the warrior class; he was sacred, and a certain royal charisma attached to his person.