Sentence examples for been elected to high from inspiring English sources

All have been elected to high office more than once, and all are serious public servants.

She has never been elected to high political office, but has built a reputation as an adept, low-key political operator.

Asian-Americans have been elected to high office in Washington State for 20 years, and black mayors have won not just in the heavily Democratic Puget Sound area but in the overwhelmingly white and Republican eastern part as well -- all this in a state that is 89percentt white.

Moreover, having run large organizations or having been elected to high office is no guarantee of competency when it comes to running the federal government.

A disproportionate number of Mormons have been elected to higher office in America; although Mormons account for only 1.8percentnt of the country's population, five of the hundred United States senators are Latter-day Saints.

Egypt's leading private broadsheet, al-Masry al-Youm, published last week an interview with a Republican "senator", one Maurice Bonamigo, a man very approving of Egypt's controversial new domestic direction – but one who also sadly later emerged to have never been elected to higher office.

In fact, no sitting New York City mayor has been elected to higher office since the 19th century.

In the 1970s, as Atlanta's black population became a majority in the city, African Americans were elected to high office, including Andrew Young to the U.S. Congress in 1972 and Maynard Jackson to the mayor's office in 1973.

In the main, it was a feminist message about the difficulty most women have being elected to high office and the compromises they have to make and the way they are torn.

It was not until the final decades of the twentieth century that women were elected to high office in appreciable numbers; each of the three women to serve as state governors before 1976 was either the widow or the wife of her predecessor.

Both Clinton and Spitzer were elected to high office, and both were guilty of sexual indiscretions.