Sentence examples for elected to exercise from inspiring English sources

But the same people also in general accept the British way of deciding things - that MPs are elected to exercise their judgment; and providing parties are clear before elections, the democratic principle is safeguarded.

National League FLORIDA MARLINS--Announced RHP Brian Edmondson has elected to exercise his right of free agency.

They are able to play because the Nickell team, which won in Memphis, elected to exercise its right to play instead in the 2005 world championships.

"Any government that says 'we will automatically do what Davies recommends' is abdicating the responsibility they were elected to exercise," she told a fringe meeting.

Small groups of unelected, elitist judges end up substituting their own, highly contentious views about the proper limits of government power for the considered judgments of the people's representatives, e.g., those members of Congress or Parliament duly elected to exercise, on behalf of the people, the latter's sovereign right to participate in political decisions affecting their basic rights.

Participants may elect to exercise alone or with another participant, and begin to keep their own record of session participation.

Nixon elected to do neither.

Obama has elected to do the latter.

While pessimism about the future dominated the comments of the sixty-three per cent of American voters who elected not to exercise their democratic rights on Tuesday, some expressed a glimmer of hope.

In August, after Armstrong elected not to exercise his right to a public hearing on the charges brought by the anti-doping agency, the newspaper said in a statement that it might seek to recoup that money: "Armstrong sued this paper in 2004.

We have elected to evaluate motor control exercise delivered in this manner because this approach is regarded as contemporary best practice.