Sentence examples for empowered to elect from inspiring English sources

All of a sudden, the people of all fifty states plus the District of Columbia are empowered to elect their President the same way they elect their governors, mayors, senators, and congressmen.

It's made up of princes empowered to elect the next crown prince.

In 1897, the members were empowered to elect a Municipal Chairperson to lead them.

Because of party rules, the congress was not empowered to elect the general secretary, and it held a survey on whom the delegates wanted to be appointed General Secretary.

In 2007 Rafsanjani was elected to lead the Assembly of Experts (Majles-e Khobregān), a body empowered to select Iran's supreme leader.

After all, voters in democracies are supposed to be empowered to punish elected representatives who seemingly betray the public trust.

Its earliest recognition as a legal corporation belongs to about the year 1211, when a brief of Innocent III empowered it to elect a proctor to be its representative at the papal court.

In 1973, President Richard M. Nixon signed a home-rule law empowering Washington to elect a mayor and council.

He believes that empowering students to elect their leaders will help develop their decision-making skills for a more sober electorate in the future.

Mainly because the boss's wife was not an elected official empowered to give a direct dismissal order, the independent counsel did not think he could get a conviction, but concluded that her sworn denial of a "role" was a "strained interpretation of the language" and "is contrary to common sense".

Marshall's core conviction was that the spirit of '87 had trumped the spirit of '76, transforming the loose confederation of states into a coherent nation guided by a duly elected federal government empowered to make laws for all the American people.