Sentence examples for but I elected from inspiring English sources

"I didn't want to make it like National Geographic," Dr. Swartz said of the unaltered pictures, "but I elected to leave some of the images real to show the natural beauty of animals".

I was in school before I joined up, but I elected not to finish school so that I could get started.

Disappointment averted, then – but only because I elected to listen to the entire interview, instead of relying on the Telegraph's version of events, which implied Winstone had melodramatically announced a plan to leave the country.

But in the end, I elected not to take my British nationality.

But I was elected by the people of Vermont to be their elected representative in Washington.

But I got elected on this proposal – this won me the election, along with military and healthcare.

But I was elected to the legislature as a member of the Badger Boy's State.

I think that I got funny on the Lampoon, but I was elected to the Lampoon, so I must have been kind of funny.

But I was elected governor as an independent in 2010, and I was proud to see that my stand on gay marriage stood up well over the years.

"But I was elected by thousands to occupy this chair, and as a congressman I have the responsibility to defend the sovereignty of my country.

"But I was elected by all the political factions, extreme right, extreme left, PFLP [the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine], Palestine Democratic Union, everyone.