Sentence examples for capable of electing from inspiring English sources

A: There are two dioceses that are electing bishops soon, who I think are capable of electing a gay bishop.

"America's a country that was capable of electing George W. Bush two times in a row, and then electing two times in a row his exact opposite, Barack Obama.

The fact that our previous president won his re-election should tell us that either the voters aren't capable of electing their officials or that they want their nation to fail.

Not until the Great Migration of blacks to Northern cities between the two world wars were they again capable of electing candidates of their choosing.

It is entirely possible to be both a country capable of electing a black President and one that still needs strong legal protections for black voters.

Critics have said a nation capable of electing a black president should no longer tolerate such federal intrusion into state affairs.

But writers in general have done a remarkably capable job of electing the right candidates.

Social scientists tend to regard alert citizens as bulwarks of democracy, capable of punishing elected leaders who abuse office.

That no person having a pension under the crown during pleasure, or for any term of years, is capable of being elected.

The strategy suggests Paul hopes to inherit his father's libertarian loyalists even if it might complicate efforts to reach a much wider electorate, capable of nominating him – and electing him – to the White House.

Libya, in particular, remains a checkerboard of militias, some of them composed of Salafis, who have proved themselves capable of intimidating the newly elected government.