Sentence examples for elect them on from inspiring English sources

The Marxist critic Raymond Williams was hostile to the Labour Party throughout his life but once voted for them in the 1970s with the following proviso: "Elect them on Thursday and fight them on Friday".

"So we have examples of electing presidents who have been through the mill, and then sometimes electing presidents who come along, like Jimmy Carter, or Barack Obama, and have not had much experience, and we elect them on hope," Giuliani said.

"Usually politicians wait a decent interval before turning their backs on the people who elected them on a no-tax promise," said Pete Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union.

Leaders of Syriza, the radical left-wing party that leads the coalition – clever academics; idealistic, appealingly tieless but often clueless in terms of political and economic strategy, due to their inexperience – must negotiate an economic strategy that satisfies their eurozone neighbours and offers up a vision of a better future to a people who elected them on the slogan "Hope is on the way".

We elected them on agendas.

But, in a sign that Republicans now view the presidential race as a lost cause, several Senate candidates are preparing ads asking voters to elect them as a check on Mrs. Clinton in the White House.

The Democratic and Republican parties, private political clubs, are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution and do not represent the people who elect them, yet have a stranglehold on our electoral system.

She also lauded Mr. Gore and her husband, the president, saying that the nation elected them in 1992 on faith but now had the "evidence and results" of a thriving economy and that that was a big reason to elect Mr. Gore president.

"It's a very healthy thing really where people can't pursue their own naked ambition, they have to depend, get their colleagues to elect and select them". On the wider issue of coalition governments both in London and Cardiff, he said it was what the electorate wanted and in the light of the tuition fees vote at Westminster, he didn't like accusations of politicians breaking their promises.

The two "people's republics" carved out over the past seven months by pro-Russia rebels have not been recognised by any countries, and a rushed vote to elect governments for them on Sunday was declared illegal by Kiev, Washington and Brussels.

Under recent changes in Israeli election law, prime ministers are directly elected, making them less dependent on Parliament's shifting coalitions.