Sentence examples for elected only once from inspiring English sources

Considerable policing power will be put into the hands of a single politician, elected only once every four years.

This time, his supporters were relying on a specious legal manoeuvre: in applications to the courts, they argued that Mr Menem had been elected only once under the amended constitution.This is the argument that has been used by President Alberto Fujimori in Peru, and there it won the blessing of a hand-picked constitutional court.

Though he was popularly elected only once, in 1996, he has been internationally recognized as the leader of the Palestinian people since 1974, when the PLO was declared by Arab nations as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people".

But in 2005, we elected only 13.

Mr. Perez has won elected office only once — in 2002, when he took a seat on the Montgomery County Council in Maryland.

In two seasons with the Jets, he has elected to receive only once.

The president is directly elected for a five-year term and may be reelected only once.

The chief executive, the governor, is elected to a four-year term and may be reelected only once to serve a second, consecutive term.

BAGHDAD — Iraq's highest court on Sunday ordered Parliament, elected in March and convened only once for 18 minutes, to resume its sessions, adding another wrinkle to a lengthy crisis that has tested the country's institutions and unsettled its people.

Since the ratification of the 22nd Amendment in 1951, which limits any individual elected president to two terms, only once has the same party held the presidency for three terms.

Virginia, a state that had voted to elect a Democratic presidential candidate only once in 40 years — Barack Obama in 2008 — was not leaning toward Mitt Romney as some Republicans had predicted it would.