Sentence examples for electors among from inspiring English sources

As a result of the commission's report, a referendum of the electors among the 34,000 Europeans in the country was held in 1922; the choice was between entry into the Union of South Africa as its fifth province and full internal self-government.

Salentin's resignation required the election of a new archbishop and prince-elector from among the Cathedral Chapter.

Barack Obama and John Edwards both trounce Rudy Giuliani among human beings but lose to him among Presidential electors.

A survey by Associated Press found little enthusiasm among Republican electors for joining the rebellion.

In the states carried by Mr. Gore, there were fewer smiles among the electors.

It said he had "turned out to be unpredictable: so much so that he has made even some of the cardinals who were among his electors think again".

One factor that may have helped swing the vote among the electors, drawn from the 200,000 graduates with at least a master's degree, doctorate or bachelor of divinity, was the $200 million Lord Sainsbury's foundation gave the university recently to build a new plant sciences laboratory.

The results suggest that political preferences among the electors abroad are strongly shaped prior departure, rather than resulting from their experience abroad.

In 1649 he was among the electors who voted for Jan II Kazimierz as King of Poland.

When further negotiations among the Electors and the Emperor at Frankfurt am Main, then at Muhlhausen in Westphalia, failed to reach an agreement settling the dispute, the Pope arranged for the support of several thousand Spanish troops in early 1584.

Up to that time, the election of the new Pope required unanimity among the electors, which led to the schism when the existence of factions in the Sacred College made the unanimity impossible.