Sentence examples for permitted to elect from inspiring English sources

Under the House of Lords Act 1999, Lords were permitted to elect 90 hereditary peers to remain sitting in the reformed second chamber, with 666 peers being stripped of their 800-year-old right to sit at Westminster.

Both Corbyn and Bernie Sanders in the US have been dismissed by some as unelectable, a term Moore says is "shorthand for the phrase 'You are henceforth only permitted to elect conservatives'".

The framers of the American Constitution devised a democratic system shot through with restrictions: only a limited portion of the citizenry could vote, and even that subset was permitted to elect only state and local politicians and members of the House of Representatives, not senators or Presidents.

If voting makes an organization democratic, then China is a democracy, since citizens are permitted to elect their (relatively powerless) local representatives.

We never from the beginning have had a genuine republican form of government in any state in the Union; for in no state have "the people" ever been permitted to elect their representatives.

The men were unhappy to learn that, unlike Ohio's earlier volunteer regiments, they would not be permitted to elect their officers; they would be designated by Ohio's governor, William Dennison.

While presidential leadership is shared among Croates, Serbs, and Bosniaks, the so-called minority populations of Jews and Romas are not permitted to be elected to the presidency.

In 2002, when Mr. Christie's office won an indictment against the Essex County executive, James Treffinger, a popular Republican, he was not permitted to surrender like most elected officials who find themselves in similar circumstances.

Much of that uncertainty would evaporate if Mr. Romney was elected: federal officeholders are not permitted to hold such private equity and hedge fund investments.

As for the Democrats, Mark Green said he, too, would acquiesce, but only if he were permitted to serve a full four-year term if elected.

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