Sentence examples similar to existing officeholder from inspiring English sources
As the world gained more experience with constitutional democracy, societies recognized the need to take out of the hands of existing officeholders the power to control the rules under which they and their rivals compete for political power.
Throughout his campaign, Trump has been caustic and bleak in his assessments of the country, castigating his opponents, existing officeholders and negotiators as "stupid".
A related, but separate, issue is that shareholders must perceive that corporate governance is properly structured so that financial gains are fairly negotiated between existing shareholders and corporate officeholders.
The RNC with this lawsuit is attempting to eviscerate the existing contribution limits and the existing prohibition on federal officeholders soliciting huge contributions.
The bill includes proposals for lifetime lobbying bans on former lawmakers, federal judges and Cabinet secretaries, a requirement that federal officeholders make their tax returns public, and the creation of a new agency to enforce and oversee existing government ethics rules.
Nor should it distract Congress from passing legislation to stop federal officeholders like Mr. DeLay from using elaborate schemes to put their fund-raising outside the limits and disclosure requirements set by existing federal laws.
He attracted a huge following with speeches indicting the officeholders of the Tammany Hall machine for engorging themselves on bribes and special privileges while "we have hordes of citizens living in want and in vice born of want, existing under conditions that would appall a heathen".
