Sentence examples for entitled to elect from inspiring English sources

Elizabeth I gave the chapter and the Vicars Choral a new charter in 1591, creating a new governing body, consisting of the dean and eight residentiary canons with control over the church estates and authority over its affairs, but no longer entitled to elect the dean (that entitlement thenceforward belonged ultimately to the Crown).

Farron stressed that Rennard had been entitled to stand for election and that Lib Dem peers were entitled to elect him, but that the call for a special conference demonstrated that the party's leadership still has "some way to go to convince our members that the party's culture has changed".

The colonies had never been entitled to elect members of the House of Commons.

And if the preferred dividend is not paid, holders of the preferred stock are entitled to elect two directors.

ON MAY 13th some 49m Italians will be entitled to elect 315 senators and 630 deputies to parliament.

Borough, in Great Britain, incorporated town with special privileges or a district entitled to elect a member of Parliament.

Under the Basic Law, or mini-constitution, residents are promised universal suffrage and are entitled to freely elect their legislature and chief executive as early as 2007.

"No one is entitled to be elected.

Their rights were strengthened by a 1998 law that, for instance, entitled them to elect independent directors to company boards.

Trump has declined to receive most of the intelligence briefings that he is entitled to as president-elect and that might better prepare him for his dealings with foreign leaders.

The candidate elected by the majority was regarded as unanimously elected and entitled to exercise his royal rights immediately.