Sentence examples for because they were elected from inspiring English sources

"There are records of people being fined because they were elected and then didn't show up for the town meeting".

In fact, until 1913 and the ratification of the 17th amendment, senators did not have to worry that much about their constituents at all, because they were elected by state legislatures.

Two new members of the Senate — Chris Coons of Delaware and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia — were sworn in Monday ahead of other winners because they were elected to fill out the unexpired terms of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the Senator Robert C. Byrd, who died last summer.

"They think that just because they are elected, they can do anything.

Renato Brunetta, head of the PdL in the lower house of parliament, told Italian radio: "Leaders aren't leaders because they are elected or because they're in parliament or have an MP's pass.

Benn's opponents say that MPs should be the pre-eminent voices because they are elected by the population at large.

They have chosen to make a stand, at a not-insubstantial political risk to their party, but at little personal political risk because they are elected in overwhelmingly Republican districts.

On paper, the Wukan protests never should have happened: China's village committees should be the most responsive bodies in the nation because they are elected by the villagers themselves.

Senate Republicans — including the party's presidential nominee, John McCain — tend to reflect more diverse constituencies and points of view, because they are elected statewide and need only face the voters every six years.

But who really believes now that that is enough accountability, or that our leaders are smart enough to understand the economic levers, just because they are elected?

This woman has been an elected representative almost her entire life and I will see past the hatred and ignorance and slander and I will see the Truth in her and her husband because they are elected officials of our nation and our divinely authorized system of government.