Sentence examples for gather to elect from inspiring English sources

As cardinals gather to elect Pope, Catholic officials break into a sweat over news that priests share €23m building with huge gay sauna 19.

THE CONCLAVE -- The funeral began nine days of spiritual mourning and a time of subtle campaigning before the cardinals gather to elect a successor.

On a dusty football pitch known as Freedom Square, thousands of young Dinka men, coated with ash and clad in glamorous calfskin skirts, gather to elect a sub-chief.

The 447 voting DNC members will gather to elect their next chair in Atlanta on Feb. 25.

About 1,300 delegates gathered to elect Mr. Najibullah president.

We reported in March that as cardinals gathered to elect the Pope, Catholic officials were breaking into a sweat over the fact that priests would share a new €23m building with a huge gay sauna.

But for many more of the delegates from Uefa's 55 members gathered to elect their next president at the Astir Palace Beach Resort in Athens, the surprise address from Michel Platini will be warmly welcomed.

The event was Boys State, an American Legion-sponsored event at Norwich University where high school boys (no girls, please, this was 1976) from around the state gathered to elect a mock legislative leadership and governor.

When the Youth League gathered to elect its leadership in April, the conference was suspended after some delegates got into drunken brawls, throwing chairs and exposing their bare bottoms to the media.After decades of stitching up party elections behind closed doors, the ANC is finding it hard to become more open without rancour or greed.

For example, the "Plebeian Council" was an assembly where plebeians gathered to elect Plebeian magistrates, pass laws that applied only to Plebeians, and try judicial cases concerning Plebeians.

On that particular day, the people of Appenzell-Innerrhoden gathered to elect their new "city captain" – which is Swiss for "village mayor".