Sentence examples for he was unanimously elected from inspiring English sources
He was unanimously elected president in 1950 and, after the first general election (1952), was chosen by an overwhelming majority of the new electoral college; in 1957 he was elected to a third term.
His ouster is a sudden setback, especially since he was unanimously elected a year ago.
On April 24 , 1585 he was unanimously elected successor to Gregory, who had left the Papal States in chaos.
Although not a priest, he was unanimously elected pope at Avignon on Dec. 30, 1370, to succeed Urban V.
A cardinal subdeacon who had helped organize the Council of Pisa in 1409, he was unanimously elected pope on Nov. 11, 1417, in a conclave held during the Council of Constance (1414 18), which had been called to end the Great Schism (1378 1417), a split in the Western church caused by multiple claimants to the papacy.
He was named as the eighth Archbishop of Birmingham in 2000 and was appointed Archbishop of Westminster in 2009, the same year he was unanimously elected President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.
"They've got a really radical agenda," Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) told reporters at the Capitol after she was unanimously elected chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, making her the third-most-powerful Republican in the House.
Following Clark's election-night resignation, Phil Goff was unanimously elected as the party's leader, with Annette King as deputy, and Darren Hughes and Steve Chadwick as the senior and junior whips, respectively.
