Sentence examples for formally elected from inspiring English sources

De Klerk was formally elected president by South Africa's tricameral Parliament on September 14.

By March 1968, he was formally elected president by the tame provisional parliament.

Dos Santos has led Angola for 36 years, despite having never been formally elected.

They had formally elected Mambush, Xolani and three others to speak for them.

"Even during Stalin's time, even during Soviet times, all deputies were formally elected.

Its chairman is typically named by the party's presidential nominee and then formally elected by the committee.

Party members will formally elect a new chairman early next year.

His biting humor and sharp wit were on display at a convention convened for the purpose of formally electing him as the party's candidate.

Making reference to the aforementioned referendum, and the way the Catholic Church formally elects a new pontiff, Cameron joked: "The white smoke over the Falklands was pretty clear".

At stake is not only the spacious mayoral digs in San Francisco's ornate City Hall, but also the possibility of running the city for nearly a year until voters formally elect a new mayor for a four-year term next November.

Noda, 54, will be faced with a long list of policy headaches once the DPJ has used its majority in the lower house on Tuesday to formally elect him prime minister.