Sentence examples for elected a year ago from inspiring English sources
But, elected a year ago on a promise of peace and security, he was also a vulnerable leader picking a lonely path through a political and diplomatic minefield.
The leader it elected a year ago, Kevin Rudd, a rather geeky former diplomat, looked an unlikely challenger to the wily, combative and ruthless Mr Howard.In electoral terms, Mr Rudd has now shown himself a winner.
The first civilian government since the coup was elected a year ago, but a three‐man pres idential commission acted as head of state until earlier this month when it was dissolved pending the election today.
In response, Israeli right-wing leaders seized on the televised images of stone-throwing, masked and armed Palestinians -- images, like those of the Israeli soldiers firing into the crowds, that have been little seen since Prime Minister Ehud Barak was elected a year ago on a peacemaking platform.
President François Hollande, a Socialist who was elected a year ago, has made a point of trying to be a "normal president" and contrast his simpler style with the "bling bling" image of his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Juan Somavia, a Chilean diplomat elected a year ago to run the labor agency, has promised to modernize its bureaucracy -- one so steeped in old ways that a significant part of its staff cannot use a computer.
Background: Elected 1993 special election.
She was a teacher before being elected 13 years ago.
Bird was a Fellow of the Linnaean Society (elected 1836), the Geological Society (elected 1836) and the Royal Society (elected 1846).
Fellow, American Physical Society, elected 2009.
