Sentence examples for elected to tell from inspiring English sources
"We were not elected to tell the federal government what to do — that's why we have Congressional elections".
This sense of enduring responsibility to both the living and the dead carries over into her fiction, helping determine her narrative strategies: whose stories she has elected to tell and which characters engage her sympathies; the ways in which the ironies and contradictions, the complexities and compromises, of life in wartime find their way into her work.
"I have the duty, certainly as a historian, and even more as President, if elected, to tell our story to anyone who wants to listen — objectively, truthfully, because we will only suffer and fool ourselves if we do it any other way," Guðni said.
In France, we don't really have such a thing as a "risk culture," so Valls elected to tell the truth, since today the government is taking preventive health measures to prepare for this type of attack.
According to Times writer Jonathan Mahler, that idealistic story is the one that Harper Lee elected to tell under the guidance - influence? -- of her motherly, strong-willed editor, Tay Hohoff.
Billed as a "contemporary prequel" to Psycho, it elects to tell the origin story of Norman Bates in the modern day.
More than any other film I've seen which elects to tell stories about gay men, "Howl" very clearly articulates the isolation and stigmatization felt by a group of human beings who, even today, are told that they are something just short of being real, equal men.
"I'm a praying person," Ellison, the first Muslim to be elected to Congress, told me.
"They have huge Muslim constituencies, many of whom support GOP efforts," Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind)., the second Muslim ever elected to Congress, told HuffPost Monday, encouraging his Republican colleagues to support the bill. .
Similarly, Emily's List, a political action committee (PAC) focused on getting pro-choice Democratic women elected to office, told HuffPost that as of Dec. 9, they had raised $770,000 since election day ― 36percentt of which came from new donors.
"Just this morning people were reading the story of Khairuldeen Mahkzoomi, the U.C. Berkeley senior who was removed from an airplane and interrogated by the FBI because he was speaking Arabic on his cell phone," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn)., the first-ever Muslim elected to Congress, told HuffPost in a statement Monday.
