Sentence examples for elected by only from inspiring English sources

He legislated through a senate that was elected by only 10% of the voters.

He was elected by only a narrow margin in 1998 when he defeated a Republican incumbent, Lauch Faircloth.

But political analysts predict that the judges will be elected by only 4percentto5percentcent of the voters.

His plight raised the question of whether the will of the people or the decision of a Parliament elected by only a fraction of the people was supreme.

He has insisted that the sitting upper house of parliament, which was elected by only a tenth of voters and had been seen by many as a talking shop, is the sole legitimate legislature, even as it writes rules empowering the Islamists, whose media spew forth sectarian hatred, claiming that anyone who rebukes them is an agent of foreign powers.

Many of the powerful police and crime commissioners (PCCs) for the 41 forces across England and Wales outside London were elected by only 7% of those eligible to vote, with turnout averaging 15% – below the previous 24% low recorded in the 1999 European elections.

To make matters even worse, a bitter deadlock persists over the choice of a new president, who is supposed to be elected by parliament.The only morsel of comfort for Mr Braghis was a decision last week by the IMF to approve a loan to Moldova of $142m.

Legislators are elected by party, and only parties that exceed set vote totals in parliamentary elections can seat members in parliament.

Although elected by industry workers only, the Grammy selection process is more open to question than it may seem.

Corbyn's supporters invoke democracy too, in defence of a leader democratically elected by the party only nine months ago.

She favours the present procedure, whereby a programme is stitched together by consensus, a candidate is elected by party members only a few months before the presidential election and he or she is expected to stick to that manifesto.Squabbling among aspirant leaders has been a feature of the French Socialist Party ever since the death of François Mitterrand in 1996.