Sentence examples for for which they were elected from inspiring English sources

Instead the speaker needs to register this uprising as a dire warning that there is trouble in his house and a hunger for democratic reform among legislators who would like to do the work for which they were elected.

Certainly, both presidents, once in power, had implemented policies radically different to those for which they were elected.

Even the legislators and legal advisors proposing these measures admit that their intent is to trigger reconsideration of the 14th Amendment by the U.S. Supreme Court rather than to address compelling state or local problems for which they were elected.

Stockman failed to see how legitimizing unbalanced budgets would completely transform our politics, how it relieved Congress of the singular duty for which they are elected: the duty to make choices.

Elected officials like Jason West who substitute their own political activism for the laws of this country show no respect for the very process by which they are elected (Robert Sullivan, March 28).

And when the debate is over, the votes are cast and counted, and the result has been announced, let us all shake hands, accept the result and get on with delivering the modern, socially mobile and outward-looking Britain for which the Conservatives were elected.

"The P.L.C. should not be allowed to convene, and certainly not for a meeting at which they are due to elect a new cabinet under the leadership of Arafat," declared a right-wing minister, Danny Naveh, on Army Radio.

Infantino will serve the remaining term of office for which Blatter was elected last May, meaning there will be a further election in 2019.

It also intensifies the concerns over his overall conflicts of interests and whether they are influencing his policies and affecting his ability to perform the duties for which he was elected.

John's exceptional abilities were quickly recognized: in 1812 he submitted his first mathematical paper to the Royal Society, for which he was elected a fellow the following year.

How could I have looked them in the eye if I had signed away the ability to speak about the very subject for which I was elected?