Sentence examples for may have elected from inspiring English sources

The people may have elected him, but this was not an event for the people.

One is that the banks may have elected to hold onto the excess capital for now.

Chileans may have elected a conservative president, but at least on some social issues, the centre-left still holds sway.

Japan's governing party may have elected Keizo Obuchi as its president and the country's future Prime Minister by a comfortable margin on Friday.

It enables indexes to continue to capture all investable equity securities and offer all investors the possibility of benefitting from the growth prospects of new companies that may have elected to offer differential voting rights.

And while states with independent expenditure bans may have elected more Democrats before 2010 than did states without such bans, this does not necessarily have anything to do with how the states regulated election finance.

The underlying irony for those who sought to end what they perceived as corruption is that they may well have elected a president whose record through the years and whose actions since the election signal it could be the most openly corrupt administration in generations.

If it had stopped a year later, we may well have elected John McCain rather than Barack Obama.

Slater may also have elected to gloss over grisly particulars as a narrative strategy, so as not to foreclose any identification between his reader and his subjects; Ishmael Beah describes killing as a "daily activity" but similarly refrains from graphic elaboration.

(ii) Our practical course was directly relevant to the degree program of the D&G students, whereas the B&B students were asked to chose between several practical units and may not have elected our course as first choice.

In nearby Sheffield, which in common with several other cities in the region is voting on 3 May on whether to have elected mayors, there is also little sign of election fever.