Sentence examples for electors first from inspiring English sources
The first documented instance in English of "elector" as a translation of the German word Kurfürst (literally, "choose-prince") is from 1529, some 61 years later.We then have knights electors (first attestation: 1628).
He was not the electors' first choice but rather a compromise candidate, but he went on to become a powerful and exacting bishop.
On the day of the vote, the electors first assembled into their conventions for debate and campaigning.
Brown reportedly offered Nick Clegg legislation on shifting to a system of single transferable voting, in which the electors' second and third preferences would be reapportioned until one candidate gained a majority.
103 cardinal electors at first plenary mtg of cardinals preparing for conclave.
In a prime example of how much political rhetoric now has the ring of a Homebase catalogue, David Cameron proclaimed last week that the policy's revival would buy electors their first "vital rung on the property ladder".
The creation of a national permanent register of electors was first proposed in the 1930s, but serious consideration for such a project was not established until the 1980s.
Residing until 1643 not in Brandenburg, the heartland of his domain, but rather in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), the capital of the remote Duchy of Prussia, the Elector at first pursued a policy of cautious neutrality in order to escape the pressure of the rival powers.
But if the people don't go nuts, there is no reason — or justification — for the electors to second guess them.
On March 26 , 1789 22 days after the newly ratified US Constitution took effect, future Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall sent a letter to George Washington at his Mount Vernon estate, where the president-elect was waiting for Congress to count the votes of America's first electors.
The Bohemian king's obligations were reduced to a minimum, but, as elector, he ranked first among the four secular members of the college of electors.
