Sentence examples for have initially elected from inspiring English sources

And second, Georgians have initially elected each of their three independent Presidents with more than eighty per cent of the vote, but they quickly tire of them; the first two were overthrown.

Brundage had been initially elected in 1952 for an eight-year term; he was re-elected unanimously in 1960 for an additional four years.

In electing Mr. Webster, the commission split 3 to 2 along partisan lines, with the two Democrats backing John H. Biggs, a former money management executive whom Mr. Pitt was reported to have initially supported but later turned against.

As a result, he was forced to end his bid to get elected (he had initially been appointed after Max Baucus became ambassador to China), in shame.

Initially elected in 1993, Congresswoman Woolsey has used her influence as a member of the House Education and Labor Committee to provide children and families with the tools needed to fully realize the American Dream.

His willing and frank engagement was evident in the run-up to Singapore's 2011 presidential election, as he had initially contemplated contesting for the Elected Presidency after losing his parliamentary seat in the 2011 general elections, though he subsequently decided not to.

After that press conference, even the Democratic elected officials who had initially stuck by the governor began to abandon him.

When he was initially elected, much of his support came from residents who had been fighting a plan by the state Department of Transportation to straighten Neberan Road in the Tarrytown Lakes neighborhood.

About a quarter of the students (125) initially elected to complete the online examination; however, after they had undertaken a practice online examination, only 29 (6.3 %) students elected to continue in the trial and proceed to take the final exam online.

Archival sources showed that health board officers in Corfu and Zante were initially elected around 1545.

The decision to endorse Mr. Powers came after a long and dispiriting process for party leaders, who had initially hoped to get one of the island's Republican elected officials to run for the seat.