Sentence examples for electing one of from inspiring English sources

It seems that the electorate, possibly bored with rational thought, is toying with the idea of cutting out the middleman and just electing one of the business class through sheer force of Stockholm syndrome.

In 1979, a group whose leaders included Mr. Patterson, the current president, succeeded in electing one of their own as the denomination's president, gaining an office whose powers included appointing trustees to oversee the Southern Baptist seminaries, missionary agencies and other boards.

In the euphoria of electing one of our own, we forgot that ideological purity is not a recipe for pragmatic governance.

One day I was late and the young workers/entrepreneurs had held a board meeting electing one of their own as board chairman and picking a new CEO who promised to put more money into marketing, pay dividends from the profits and to bring in more relevant guest speakers.

"They feel they are on the cusp of achieving the holy grail of San Francisco politics, electing one of their own into the mayor's office".

Now she has, by all accounts, played a prime role in achieving her generation's dream, electing one of their own to the city's highest office.

If he were elected, one of his supporters observed, it would be "on account of the past, not the future.

Every year the Yale University alumni vote to elect one of their number to a six-year term on the Yale corporation, the university's top governing body.

When the framers of the Constitution were trying to decide the method by which a chief executive would be elected one of the reasons for rejecting a direct election method was that there was not a way for voters from one state to get enough information about a candidate from another state.

Let's elect one of our own".

A year later, he was elected one of Senegal's two deputies to the National Assembly.