Sentence examples for elected and maintained from inspiring English sources

Goss insisted that he would not seek the governorship if elected, and maintained that using the lieutenant governor's post as a stepping stone to the governor's office was a betrayal of the office and its authority.

In the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, these reside mostly within the coalition of CDU, CSU and FDP ie, in the parliamentary base that elected and maintains Angela Merkel as chancellor.

Let's just say that his methods of getting elected and maintaining law and order were dubious at best.

What is happening in the Philippines could happen in India if Modi is re-elected and maintains his nationalistic and religious approach.

But surely there are vocational courses and placement agencies for reforming criminals; they don't need to be rewarded with an elected position and maintained at the expense of tax payers.

A Democrat, he was elected mayor in 1975, and maintained an iron control of city politics until 1981, when he was narrowly defeated by Republican Leonard S. Paoletta after scandal rocked Mandanici's administration.

"It adds an elected leadership position and maintains a leadership structure that honors the diversity and fosters the unity of our caucus".

Moreover, the media haven't been particularly interested in what the candidates would do once elected to build and maintain what is arguably the most important institution in American culture.

After being elected, Obama maintained throughout his first term that Israel's security was sacrosanct and pledged to keep "all options on the table" to prevent an Iranian from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Lal Krishna Advani, 80, the leader of the B.J.P., which has historically favored a strong strategic partnership with the United States, took a broad swipe at what he called "four years of misrule" by Mr. Singh's government and maintained that if elected, his party would renegotiate the nuclear deal, and not scrap it altogether.

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