Sentence examples for elected broke from inspiring English sources
And indeed there is evidence that politicians armed this group, then, after they were elected, broke a whole bunch of promises [which] produced tension between the government and the movement.
It was broke in 1824 when the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson, who had a plurality of the Electoral College votes.
"We are broke," he said, and he had been elected to balance the state's books.
So now if he's elected and does what he promised Medicare will go broke by 2016.
By the mid-nineties, when the reformist Prime Minister Romano Prodi was elected and tried — and failed — to mend it, the country was going broke.
When Samaranch was elected here during the 1980 Summer Games, the Olympic movement was riven by boycotts and nearly broke.
These three women each broke barriers with their victories — Omar and Tlaib are the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, and Pressley is the first black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts.
In 1998 Venezuelans broke with the party system to elect populist left-winger Hugo Chavez, a former army officer who proclaimed a "Bolivarian revolution", named after South America's independence hero.
