Sentence examples for elect him to from inspiring English sources

Only by dealing for votes, threatening to resign and mustering a parade of influential orators did he narrowly win on the main question of the week - allowing the Congress itself to elect him to his first term, sparing him a general election that, in the current angry climate, he might have lost.

Madigan's fellow House Democratic caucus members regularly elect him to lead their majority as he funds their election campaigns and provides them with needed election foot soldiers.

We didn't elect him to be president or PM.

I did not elect him to impose his opinions on me".

In fact, voters apparently believed in his sincerity enough to elect him to a second term in 2008.

He retained power, however, by having the federal parliament elect him to the presidency of Yugoslavia in 1997.

When elections came up again in 1966, Oklahomans elected him to a full six-year term.

Regardless of the accusations, 14,000 voters re-elected him to the parliament in last month's general election.

The next year they helped re-elect him to a third term.

In a statement issued after he had left the courthouse, Mr. Stevens was defiant, urging Alaskans to re-elect him to a seventh full term next week.

Over the years, the Sierra Club's 600,000 members would re-elect him to the 15-member board by overwhelming margins.