Sentence examples for elected than from inspiring English sources

"You are more likely to get a leader with a strong popular mandate and a clear plan for the future if they are directly elected, than if they're chosen by a labyrinthine method of indirect election which chooses council leaders at the moment.

Yet no sooner was Mr Rajapakse elected than both sides were shelling and murdering each other.

We're going back to Canberra with more elected than we had before.

No sooner was he elected than he began to call in favors from politicians to help develop the island.

No sooner had he been elected than Rachel Johnson stepped up to the arduous task of official spokeswoman.

A new biography of a federal judge suggests that Mr. Biaggi, a Democrat from the Bronx, came a lot closer to getting elected than most New Yorkers realized.

"But they would prefer not to be re-elected than to be proven to have been thieves themselves".

Some black incumbents have been more worried about being re-elected than about winning a legislative majority for the issues their constituents care about.

"He loves to be in the political maelstrom," said G. Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin and Marshall College, "but Specter is better off today in his effort to be re-elected than he was yesterday".

The main reason why his forecast had a lower likelihood of Mr Obama being re-elected than Mr Wang's did was that Mr Silver assigned a higher probability than Mr Wang did to the risk that the polls were simply wrong, underestimating support for Mr Romney across the board.

& regarded as a good omen though it can be applied more easily by a Pres elect than by a Pres.