Sentence examples for elected rather than from inspiring English sources

They recommend that, since specialized political interests have less influence over the elective process than over appointments, regulators should be elected rather than appointed.

People are being elected, rather than appointed by the regime.

Thus, for the first time since 1976, Thailand had a government headed by an elected, rather than a military, leader.

Eventually council members came to be elected rather than appointed, although the commissioner retained ultimate administrative authority.

People in resettled areas on former white-owned farms were more likely to have elected, rather than hereditary, local leaders.

Some argue that the Americans would set the region a better model for democracy if they handed over to an elected, rather than selected, provisional government.

Yet through it all, Mr. Edwards remained Louisiana's lovable scoundrel, damaged but not defeated, re-elected rather than reviled.

If your primary purpose in life is to get re-elected, rather than govern effectively, then people's views on issues don't matter if they vote for you anyway.

In today's political climate, most presidents are too focused on being re-elected rather than confronting the challenging problems of office.

It's all about holding his finger to the wind to get re-elected, rather than pointing the way forward and leading.

They pored over each day's events and over all the jolts and tremors of their psyches for signs of being among the elect rather than the damned.