Sentence examples for elected to do something from inspiring English sources

That is the thing with industrial activism: for politicians elected to "do something", it is much harder to own up when inaction, not action, is the best policy.

Nixon elected to do neither.

Turk is elected to do so.

He did what public officeholders are elected to do.

Obama has elected to do the latter.

Do what you were elected to do.

"All the media attention forced elected officials to do something positive and pay attention to the community," he said.

He wanted a vivid way to show Americans how big the national debt was, and also to nudge elected officials to do something about it.

The purpose of the protests is to keep the problem in the public limelight and, it is hoped, force elected officials to do something about it rather than just kick the can down the road and take political postures.

By gathering these artists into a contrived post-Warholian pantheon, tying them together in ways that seem superficial at best, the authors elected not to do something more challenging and much needed, which is to discover artists influenced by Warhol over the past 50 years whom the art market might have neglected or overlooked.

No demands for elected officials to "do something" about every microcrisis that crops up.