Sentence examples for latter elected from inspiring English sources

Designated cities are divided into ku (wards), each of which has a chief and an assembly, the former being nominated by the mayor and the latter elected by the residents.

Bill Clinton and Al Gore, in the hopes of getting the latter elected, have blown air kisses to John Sweeney and the Seattle mob, and the Republican Congress, shifty-eyed and blow-dried, its wet thumb in the air, has performed little better.

President, Joseph R. Swan nominated Charles B. Harding as his successor; the latter was elected and the former became the chairman of the board.

However, the latter was elected as a representative in the Italian parliament and did offer to sleep with Saddam Hussein in an attempt to avert the first Gulf War.

But when pressed by the Guardian about the implications of the mutual respect between Putin and Trump, if the latter was elected president, Corker acknowledged that "personal relationships end up affecting things".

A lawyer, he was vice president under Mr. Chiluba when the latter was elected in 1991 but resigned from his post and the party in 1994 after he was sidelined by the party leadership.

James Johnson, the other candidate for office, withdrew from the race due to Madison's popularity, thus the latter was elected without opposition.

The working Bush-Cheney-Rice hypothesis was that by further isolating North Korea and ignoring South Korea, the former regime would crumble and the latter would elect a right-wing government.

The truth is, they could have bent either, but that in the latter they rightly elected to resist.

Something of a surprise choice – he was quoted as a 30/1 outsider going into the conclave – the archbishop of Buenos Aires was one of the leading challengers to Joseph Ratzinger during the 2005 conclave that elected the latter as Benedict XVI.

In 1902, he dropped the latter when he was elected tutor in philosophy and fellow at Oriel College, a position which he held until 1929.