Sentence examples for earn election from inspiring English sources

(To earn election, a candidate must get 14 of the 18 votes. Voters can cast a ballot for no more than four players).

Newhouser credited that book for helping him earn election to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committeee in 1992.

"The board believes in keeping the standards very high and continuing to make it very difficult to earn election," Jane Forbes Clark, the board chairman, said in a statement.

Pissarides earned election to the British Academy in 2002, and from 2009 he also served on the executive committee of the European Economic Association.

"The standards for earning election to the Hall of Fame have been very high ever since the rules were created in 1936.

I'm trying to earn an election".

He will soon learn if what he achieved in a 17-year career will be enough to earn him election into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

Mr. Israel and his top aides concede that Republican redistricting in North Carolina was not good for several of their Democratic incumbents, who will now have to earn re-election in districts that have more Republican-leaning precincts.

Other incentives to avoid misconduct may include a desire to earn re-election, the need to maintain prestige as an element of Presidential influence, and a President's traditional concern for his historical stature".

These earned him election to the Royal Society at the exceptionally early age of 32.

Theodosius' ascetic fame earned him election in 493 as archimandrite (monastic superior) of all convents in the Jerusalem area.