Sentence examples for elected over from inspiring English sources

"They'll say, 'Oh, I'm just one person,' or 'It's just the same kind of people being elected over and over again,' " she said.

There would not necessarily be more citizen-legislators in the House, since in plenty of state and municipal offices the same representatives are elected over and over again for decades.

It's hard to imagine Lincoln rallying a skeptical Union to fight the Civil War on his claim to be the choice of less than forty per cent of the people, but even the slave-holding border states were willing to acknowledge a President elected over three opponents by a clear majority of electoral votes.

Despite Brown's protests that he was more than a year younger than the legal age to serve, he was elected over Jewett by about two thousand votes.

Though the election belonged to the Democrats, Breckinridge, a Whig, was elected over five challengers for the office.

The sculpture is going on display at the RA's summer exhibition to mark his election as an academician, one of a record number of new members elected over the past year.

In 1979, the year before Reagan was elected, over-all government spending came to 19.6 per cent of G.D.P.

Representative Jim Leach was re-elected over his Democratic opponent, Julie Thomas, a pediatrician making her first run for elective office.

In 2010, she was re-elected over a Chevron-backed challenger.

Since George Bush was re-elected over 200 more US soldiers have been killed in Iraq.

"He wanted to change this article to get re-elected over and over for life," Mr. Laotegguelnodji said.