Sentence examples for elects to be from inspiring English sources

If the Cubs cannot trade Silva and he elects to be released, the Cubs would be on the hook for his $11.5 million salary this season.

Architecture, here and elsewhere, acts as part of a larger social and economic ecology, or else it elects to be a luxury, meaningless except to itself.

"It's about a cardinal the conclave elects to be pope, who seems crushed by the weight and responsibility of his role," Moretti said.

That would help, but the show, written by Lee Summers, would probably still feel thin and perfunctory, because it elects to be an Easy Reader biography rather than to look closely at a few pivotal moments in Fitzgerald's career.

When their house is taken over by Israeli soldiers for use as an observation post, the family, rather than leave, elects to be confined to the downstairs area with strict instructions not to venture upstairs.

But if he elects to be more open about what he sees going wrong, he may risk causing widespread alarm, driving away investors, and thus aggravating the very situation the monetary fund is supposed to alleviate.

" 'I was elected to be a leader.

President Obama was elected to be the voice of change.

He did notably well with Latino voters when he was elected to be governor of Texas.

To my utter surprise, I was unanimously elected to be the purchaser of the freezer.

He wasn't elected to be a national-level politician, but this event made him one.