Sentence examples for elected go from inspiring English sources

"So often people get elected, go to Washington, they get sucked in, and they kind of stay there.

"Others get elected, go to Washington, and use the knowledge they have gained, the relationships they've built, the power they have developed over the years of incumbency to help the folks who got them there.

"Some folks get elected, go to Washington, forget where they came from," John F. Gay, chief executive of an industry trade association, said last year in introducing Mr. Hatch at an industry convention in Las Vegas.

"We had a good idea who was going to be elected going into it," Courtland Fowler said.

In the past, southerners rose through a one-party system (that denied African-Americans voting rights) and, once elected, went unchallenged.

The president was elected, goes the argument, and has earned the right to choose his own staff, free of a filibuster.

Holding that Christ's salvation was limited and that his power of redemption extended only to the elect, Gottschalk taught that the elect went to eternal glory and the reprobate went to damnation.

Governor Romney, you won the toss, and you elected to go last.

"Other industry participants elected to go ahead and get out of the way," said Kemp Dolliver, an analyst with SG Cowen.

"You are elected to go do what you think is right," he went on.

Hibs then had another opportunity to secure the win after breaking, but substitute Dominque Malonga elected to go for goal rather than pass and the chance was lost.