Sentence examples for elected to reject from inspiring English sources

Elected to reject such austerity, the Syriza government began negotiations with smiles and good cheer.

The north elected to reject this demand and suppress it by force of arms.

As it was, however, Huxley elected to reject the idea that the Feldhofer Neanderthal specimen had belonged to "a human being intermediate between men and apes" in favor of viewing it as a member of Homo sapiens, via an extension into the past of the widely assumed "racial hierarchy" that expressed itself in terms not only of morphology, but of technology, society, and presumed intelligence.

Some 1,400 people who live in Mason City, and another 1,400 in Fort Dodge, have (unsuccessfully) asked their elected leaders to reject the state's immigration-planning grants.Iowa will never be New York or California.

The Popes took the view that they had transferred the Empire from the Greeks to the Franks in the person of Charlemagne, and from the Franks to the Germans in the person of Otto I, thereby showing that the Roman Empire was subject to the Popes, and in particular that the Pope had a right to approve or reject the candidate elected to be emperor.

Members who rejected the merger elected to continue as the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Mr Maliki and Iraq's elected government happen to reject this point and many others besides (as of today, they count 20 Iraqi civilians killed; many other forensic matters are left in dispute).But whatever the facts of this particular disastrous incident, the heart of the matter has nothing to do with the bloody details of this weekend's shooting.

However, Sir Stelios's hand will have been strengthened by a critical report from PIRC, the independent investment consultancy, which advised shareholders to abstain on re-electing the chairman and to reject the remuneration report.

An independent judiciary is welcome, says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, yet it is striking how hard the judges fought to reject any elected oversight.

Proposition 45, which was soundly defeated, would have given the elected state insurance commissioner power to reject increases in premiums for some health insurance plans if deemed excessive.

And in Virginia, 13 of the newly elected legislators took a pledge to reject donations from Dominion Energy, the largest corporate political donor in the state.