Sentence examples for elected a position from inspiring English sources

Insulza has proposed to appoint a Caribbean representative as assistant-secretary-general if elected (a position often held by the Caribbean in the past).

As figure 1 indicates, the percentage of candidates participating in the annual MIR selection process who elected a training position in FCM underwent an abrupt reversal after 2008.

De Blasio strongly embraced Judge Scheindlin's decisions when they were issued, and pledged to drop the City's appeal if elected -- a position that contributed to his decisive victory in the primary election.

During the late 1930s he also was elected to a position in the Bihar government and helped organize a rural labour movement.

"More citizens have an opportunity to be elected to a position in which they have significant influence over the future of their community.

Their superstardom is a very bad development, even though there is no reason to believe either is ever going to be elected to a position where they could do serious damage.

So now the spotlight swings to people like Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, who in addition to being the face of the opposition are actually, having been in elected, in a position to do something about it.

In 1945, Mr. Césaire was asked to head the Communist ballot in the mayoral elections of Fort-de-France, the capital, and to his surprise he was elected mayor, a position he held until 2001 (except briefly in 1983 and 1984).

"Once again, we've found people in Washington have not lived up to the level of respect and dignity that we would expect for somebody that gets elected to a position of high influence," Mr. Romney said.

When I was still living in transitional housing, I was elected to a position on student government.

If we learned anything from the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003 — and, to a certain extent, the victory by Donald Trump this week — it is that you don't have to have political experience to be elected to a position of power.