Sentence examples for elected on the strength from inspiring English sources

Governments are elected on the strength of their appeal to passion and to sentiment.

The new governor was elected on the strength of his record as a United States attorney prosecuting corrupt officials.

He added: "This is a president who was not elected on the strength of a compelling record of accomplishment but by a compelling personality and story".

The German was elected on the strength of promises that his Agenda 2020 process would bring the IOC into the modern era.

The Republican, Charlie Crist, got himself elected on the strength of his promise to reduce Floridians' home-insurance rates by creating a state-subsidized pool of $28 billion in catastrophe insurance coverage.

But it's hardly just him: in 2010 alone, seven new Senators — John Boozman, in Arkansas; Chris Coons, in Delaware; Jerry Moran, in Kansas; Kelly Ayotte, in New Hampshire; John Hoeven, in North Dakota; Mike Lee, in Utah; and Joe Manchin, in West Virginia — were elected on the strength of fewer votes than Cruz got last night.

The verifier node is elected on the basis of their trust value.

Carlisle was elected on the ninth ballot.

One hundred and thirty years later, his grandson Donald would be elected president on the strength of his opposition to immigration.

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.

Two months later, in the midterm elections, Democrats, although they managed to cling to the Senate, lost the House by the widest margin since the midterms of 1946; Gingrich was elected Speaker on the strength of his "Contract with America," which made a number of promises that were impossible to keep, and in the process launched an era of rabid partisanship.