Sentence examples for has only elected from inspiring English sources

Her election would be historic, bringing positive attention to a state that has only elected white men as governor — and has endured a recent streak of political scandals.

Miller was paid a bonus of £202,000 – although he has only elected to take home half of it – after forgoing £284,000 in potential bonuses over the past two years.

The Garden State has only elected two women to statewide office, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (R) and former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R).

It was a logical political move given the rivalry between the institutions, but somewhat problematic in a country that has only elected two civilian leaders ever, Jokowi being one of them.

In 2012, ABC's Martha Raddatz noted that the debate between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan was a first for exactly that reason: the US has only ever elected one Catholic president, John F Kennedy, and the Biden-Ryan debate was the first time two vice-presidential nominees were both Catholic.

Except that, in point of fact, since World War II France has only ever elected one left-wing president: Francois Mitterand.

Buddy Roemer, a man who has only been elected as a Democrat and failed twice in running for Louisiana governor as a Republican, still will not make it into his first debate.

She called for more representation for women in both FIFA as whole as well as well as its executive committee -- the latter of which has only one elected woman on its 25-member group.

"He has only recently been elected president of South Africa," William Finnegan wrote in The New York Review of Books, of Nelson Mandela, in 1995.

Although Ms. Harris, 43, now finds herself playing a central role in the dispute over who will become the next president of the United States, she has only been in elected office for six years.

We had not only elected the first African-American president, but we had elected the son of an African immigrant, someone with an African Muslim name.