Sentence examples for have run for elected from inspiring English sources

Several Mexican immigrants who have become American citizens have run for elected office in the New York region in recent years, including Roberto Lopez, who was a city councilman in New Rochelle, N.Y., from 2003 to 2007.

Since the 1940s, 10 of Virginia's 11 elected attorneys general have run for governor, and nine of them have resigned to do so.

After moving to New York, Clinton was elected the first female senator from the state; she is the only First Lady ever to have run for public office.

The row between two high-profile women, who were both catapulted to cabinet positions by Sarkozy before they had run for any elected office, was characterised in the media as a spat between "Sarko's babes".

Connor, who had run for several elected offices in the months leading up to the campaign, had lost all but the race for Public Safety Commissioner.

He said he was drafted as a nominee for the board of governors without having run for the office, and elected — to his surprise.

If the Taliban had run for office they would have been elected.

At the same time, Mr. Cain — having never held elected office and having run for it just once — lacks the credentials of a traditional nominee.

Marois was first elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in 1981, having run for office while pregnant.

None of these candidates has run for reelection in a presidential year before, and during the 2008 and 2012 campaigns each of these states elected a Democratic senator.

Typically, the nominees for Senate are elected officials — at the state or federal level — and have run and been elected statewide previously.