Sentence examples for had been elected to replace from inspiring English sources

After an apparently contentious discussion, the spokesman announced that Akhtar Muhammad Mansur, Omar's deputy since 2010, had been elected to replace him.

Bakiyev faced emerging criticism on a number of key issues, however, including a perceived increase in corruption, which had been a central factor leading to the demonstrations against the government he had been elected to replace.

Still, the switch from Daniel arap Moi, 78, who ruled Kenya for 24 years, to Mwai Kibaki, 71, who has been elected to replace him, is being viewed as a far-reaching transformation of this East African country's political landscape.

Treasury Secretary George S. Boutwell had been elected to the U.S. Senate in the 1872 election and was replaced by Assistant Treasury Secretary William A. Richardson in 1873.

He was first elected to Congress in 1982, replacing Paul S. Trible, a Republican, who had been elected to the United States Senate that year.

All three had recently been elected to replace the party leaders who had resigned in the wake of Salmond's landslide Holyrood election victory in 2011; they looked slightly awkward, out of place in public together.

Many Mitanins have stood for elections and have been elected to the village councils.

Junot Diaz has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize board.

The farcical UN Commission on Human Rights was recently abolished and replaced with an elected body, but there are serious flaws in the constitution of the new Human Rights Council, and stalwarts of freedom and human dignity such as Cuba, China and Pakistan have been elected to it.

The vice president of the IOC, Baron Godefroy de Blonay of Switzerland, had died, and Sweden's Sigfrid Edström was elected to replace him.

After the king was finally defeated in the field (1646), new members were elected to replace those who had joined the king (the "recruiters"), but real power passed to the army.