Sentence examples for elected off from inspiring English sources

Ed, if that's true, when you get elected off the back of an unprecedented youth vote, possibly because of this article, tell the Queen the rest of us are a bit skint and ask her to sell a vase or something.

The Tasmanian Labor senator Lisa Singh has been re-elected off the back of a strong below-the-line vote despite being dropped to sixth on her party's Senate ticket.

Before Mr. Giuliani was elected, the Off-Track Betting Corporation was frequently criticized as a bastion of patronage for the Democratic Party.

Violette picked up Day after Richard Migliore elected to get off Free of Love for Volponi.

On Sunday, all of the newly elected Grillini kicked off several days of meetings in Rome to learn about lawmaking.

The government elected to hold off until Tuesday a DM1.25 billion ($680m) Eurobond issue first planned for Monday.

And while we prayed that we wouldn't be the next among our friends to be laid off, elected officials fiddled.

Ditto with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, who attracted much attention when he was first elected for taking off for parts unknown.

The last time there were talks in 1995, just after Mrs. Kumaratunga was elected, negotiations broke off when the Tigers made a surprise military attack.

Ever the operator, Yuan worked to reverse the Nationalist victory at the polls by buying off elected officials, later banning the party altogether.Song, meanwhile, was rumoured to have turned down a huge bribe from Yuan.

The man who until February served as the Maldives' first democratically elected president was off on a two-week voyage around the scattered island nation to meet the party faithful.