Sentence examples for elected yesterday from inspiring English sources

PARK GEUN-HYE, who was elected yesterday to be South Korea's first female president, will also become the first elected female leader anywhere in the Confucian civilization, which consists of China, Japan, North and South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam, and makes up nearly a quarter of the world's population.

"I also want to congratulate all our candidates who were elected yesterday and who will help take our party forward as well.

Ms Davidson was elected yesterday after a divisive battle in which one candidate, Murdo Fraser, argued for the party to be scrapped and replaced with a new centre-right movement.

Joel Rivera, a 22-year-old Fordham University student, was elected yesterday to a City Council seat that his father had held for more than a dozen years.

But, having been elected yesterday with a wafer-thin majority, Ms Harman insisted that party members had not backed her because of her stance on the war.

(Reuters) Finns Elect President Foreign Minister Tarja Halonen, the liberal candidate and a single mother, was elected yesterday as Finland's first woman president.

They were all elected last year.

VandeHei was elected last year to the Pulitzer Prize board.

Elected Jan 2003 with 679 votes.

Mr. Toledo was finally elected this year.

Ms. Nguyen, 34, was elected three years ago.