Sentence examples for elected largely on from inspiring English sources

The problem of payment to these outside lawyers arose last summer when the union chose new leaders, who were elected largely on their promises to control spending.

Mr. Putin was elected largely on his reputation as a tough, former intelligence chief who promised to restore Russian pride and defeat the Chechen rebels.

Unlike other modern presidents, Obama, who was elected largely on the strength of an unprecedented outpouring of small-dollar contributions, has no Terry McAuliffe, someone whose unspoken job it is to make sure the party's donors are kept happy and engaged.

A renowned economist, she was recruited on to Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers at the beginning of his first term and - the first woman to do so - chaired the council from 1995 until Clinton was re-elected, largely on the back of his economic record, the following year.

Alexis Tsipras won cross-party support for a vote late on Friday night but some members of his own left-wing Syriza party, which was elected largely for its anti-austerity stance, rebelled.

Mr. Trump was elected largely by workers.

Ronald Reagan was elected president largely on the promise that he could bring home our hostages being held in Iran while getting the nation out of the economic malaise the result of a brutally upward inflationary spiral— gifted him by the Jimmy Carter Administration.

President Muhammadu Buhari, elected last year largely on his vow to fight corruption, has vowed to recover "mind-boggling" sums of money stolen from the oil sector.

President Muhammadu Buhari, elected last year largely on his vow to fight corruption, has vowed to recover "mind-boggling" sums of money stolen from the oil sector and said public coffers were "virtually empty" when he took office last May.

Mr. Tomolin said he had not voted for Mr. Estrada, a former action-movie hero who was elected in 1998 largely on the strength of poor voters.

Representative Carolyn McCarthy, Democrat of New York, who was elected in 1996 largely on a gun control platform after her husband was killed and son injured by a gunman on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993, is careful with her language in describing her new bill, which would ban large-capacity ammunition magazines.