Sentence examples for before they were elected from inspiring English sources

Remember, the people running this council said before they were elected that they were compassionate Conservatives.

Chambliss served with Burr in the House before they were elected to the Senate, forming a rat pack with future House speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).

Church experts say that the Episcopal Church has had gay bishops before and does now, but none who have made their sexual orientation known before they were elected.

And that, he adds, depends in turn on how far Mr Obama is willing to move towards the centre.In Britain the Tories spent months before they were elected preparing the public for austerity.

Both Barack Obama and David Cameron, the leaders of two of the most important drug-consuming nations in the world, are on the record in their opposition to the war on drugs before they were elected.

Ask Republicans in Congress today what they think of the pledge, and many of them say that while they still subscribe to a low-tax view of government, they resent being hamstrung by a piece of paper they signed well before they were elected.

Yet even presidential candidates as audacious as Mr Obama find this strangely hard to say out loud before they are elected.

"Voters are tired of people who say one thing before they're elected and another after they're elected," says Alan Riddell, a bilingual labour lawyer who is the Conservative candidate in Ottawa South.

But since 1926, the year when the five justices on the Utah Supreme Court began to be appointed (before that they were elected), the unwritten rule in Utah government has been that at least one non-Mormon would always sit on the high bench.

Mr. Blagojevich and Mr. Quinn were not seen as personally close — Mr. Quinn has said he had not spoken to Mr. Blagojevich for months before his 2008 arrest — but they were elected as a team in two general elections.

But incumbents will be offered some consolation: if they were elected before Tuesday, they will still be allowed to run for a third term.