Sentence examples for being elected rather than from inspiring English sources

People are being elected, rather than appointed by the regime.

First, it is angry over a bid by the larger and much more cohesive group of factions the Nationhood Coalition to hijack the selection of commission leaders by insisting on their being elected rather than, as standing orders state, divided proportionally according to the distribution of seats.

Eventually council members came to be elected rather than appointed, although the commissioner retained ultimate administrative authority.

The provision requiring that State Supreme Court justices be elected, rather than appointed, is in the State Constitution, and thus would be hard to change.

But starting in the nineteen-eighties, state supreme courts (particularly in states where judges are elected rather than appointed) became political battlegrounds.

The king has increased salaries and pensions, and promised that in the future the government would be elected rather than appointed.

"It's the first time we have had a government serve out its term and another government about to be elected – rather than forcibly evicted".

Trump is using sleight of hand by citing figures from 2008, when Obama was elected, rather than 2009, when he actually took office.

Marlise Simons (NYT) TURKEY: PICKING A PRESIDENT Opposition members have proposed that the next president be elected rather than chosen by Parliament.

Most heads of executive departments are elected rather than appointed, and the executive branch includes the governor, the lieutenant governor, and several other officials, all of whom are elected to four-year terms.

There is no constitutional limit on how many terms a governor may serve, but the governor's power is limited in that numerous officials and executive boards are elected rather than appointed.