Sentence examples for elective power from inspiring English sources

For the first time since 1955, in the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republicans control all three of Washington's centers of elective power.

Critics say that in Texas, where Republicans control both chambers of the Legislature and every statewide elective office, far-right activists have the power to sway Republican primary elections, giving them disproportionate influence.

Able, dedicated people need not fear seeking elective office if their path to political power is not crooked.

He teaches a popular MBA elective course, Power and Politics in Organizations, and co-directs the Berkeley-Stanford Computational Culture Lab.

Andrew Cuomo, like Averell Harriman, Nelson Rockefeller and Lewis Lehrman before him, is offering himself as leader of the out-of-power party without having held elective office.

My power doesn't flow from the elective office or political office.

As Public Advocate, the only elective office he has ever held, he has the power to write and propose legislation in the City Council.

Now, maybe that's just because there are fewer women in elective office so there are fewer chances that a woman in power will get outed for any online dalliances.

Women hold elective office at every level of American government and have risen to positions of considerable power in both elected posts -- for example, Speaker of the House of Representative Nancy Pelosi -- and in critical appointed posts.

A different elective office?

She has never held elective office.