Sentence examples for off elected from inspiring English sources

He has backed off elected mayors.

And while we prayed that we wouldn't be the next among our friends to be laid off, elected officials fiddled.

Ever the operator, Yuan worked to reverse the Nationalist victory at the polls by buying off elected officials, later banning the party altogether.Song, meanwhile, was rumoured to have turned down a huge bribe from Yuan.

On Tuesday afternoon, the House voted to pass a bill that Republicans have promoted since the Newt Gingrich era, one that would allow private-sector employees to exchange overtime pay for "compensatory time" off, electing to accrue extra hours off rather than extra pay in their wallets.

Of the other systems we looked at, instant run-off elected the Condorcet winner most often.

Taking advantage of Thursday's day off, Randolph elected to rest many of his starters.

The interim government should begin these reforms, to take some of the heat off the elected one.

He was so unpleasant that French cardinals split off and elected their own rival pope, who excommunicated him.

Outside overseers can push the hard decisions, Mr. Klein said, and "politically, they can take the heat off the elected officials".

Back in power in 1974, Wilson loyally put Barbara - who had been thrown off the elected shadow cabinet in 1972 - into the Department of Health and Social Security.

None of this is to say that Caroline Kennedy deserves to be senator, or that she wouldn't be better off being elected to the post rather than appointed to it.