Thus, the Muslims at Medina decided to elect a chief.
"The one glimmer of the light is that the Greek democracy decided to elect us.
Perhaps the critical moment came when voters decided to elect Bill Clinton president despite what were very clear storm warnings about his tendency to wander off, sexually speaking.
On Saturday morning, the ICC announced that they had decided to elect N Srinivasan as chairman for a two-year term, starting in July.
Mr. O'Sullivan and the slate, these labor leaders said, have also decided to elect a financial professional to run Ullico day to day, signaling, they said, that Mr. Georgine's days as president would be limited.
And that is how he wrapped up his campaign, telling reporters in Syracuse that he would win because voters "are going to decide to elect a New Yorker who has the experience to get the job done".
I realized I was wasting time (Dr. Llewellyn's methods were working!) and decided to elect a single member to my team, Giulia, with whom I am in near constant contact.
Instead, like the East German communist regime of which Bertolt Brecht quipped that it had lost faith in the populace and decided to elect another, they will turn against the voters.
That sort of upset conclave is the premise of "The Shoes of the Fisherman," a 1968 movie in which the cardinals, tired of round after round of ritualized balloting, listen to one of their number talk about the time when, in a Siberian prison camp, he almost killed a man — and decide to elect him Pope.
But several labor leaders who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the unopposed 15-person slate of directors that will be elected tomorrow and will control Ullico's board has decided to elect Mr. O'Sullivan as Ullico's next chairman and chief executive.
