Sentence examples for it electing from inspiring English sources

So unpopular was this plan that even voters in liberal Massachusetts rose up against it, electing a Republican opponent of health care reform to fill Ted Kennedy's vacant seat and denying Democrats the votes they needed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.

But we can reverse it electing a president who builds bridges instead of walls.

In 1988 it elected its first woman bishop, Barbara C. Harris.

It elects its own parliament, which in turn elects a 12 man senate the senate then elects a mayor.

In 1891, it elected its first districtwide official, a Commissioner of Street Improvements.

It elects its own members, and power is heavily centralized in the president and the executive committee.

This country was rightly elated when it elected its first African-American president more than 20 months ago.

Before adjourning in anticipation of meeting in 1915 in Berlin, it elected Lane to its Permanent International Commission.

In 2006, it elected Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to be its president.

In 1983 it gained 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and four years later it elected Gianfranco Fini as its leader.

"I think I'll probably always be a fix-it elected official," he said.