Sentence examples for reelected the first from inspiring English sources

It was always true: in 2006, after Lula was reelected, the first trip he took was to Venezuela to help Chávez campaign for his own reelection.

"Reelecting the first black president is not as exciting as electing the first black president," Hall said.

The conventional political thinking is that record numbers of African-American votes stormed the polls in 2008 and 2012 solely out of giddy enthusiasm at the thought of making history and electing and reelecting the first black president in the country's history.

Even before his election night victory Tuesday, Hagan's campaign team had begun distributing a dossier that portrays Tillis' record of "fringe" positions as it prepares to reelect the first-term Democrat.

He helped the Montagnards expel their moderate Girondist rivals from the Convention on June 2, and on July 10 he was reelected to the second, predominantly Jacobin, Committee of Public Safety.

Chrétien was reelected in 2000, the first Canadian prime minister since 1945 to win three consecutive majorities.

He was reelected president in the first round of balloting in January 2011, but public malaise over Portugal's struggling economy was reflected in a voter turnout of less than 50 percent.

All that effort to reelect Obama, and the first thing he does is give away two years of Medicare?

We wouldn't have been scared enough to reelect him for the first time.

He was reelected as first minister in November, despite two votes cast against him by UUP members, which were indicative of the deep divisions within the party and the unionist community (the post of first minister subsequently was suspended in 2002).

Meanwhile, discontent among Poles steadily gathered strength until it culminated in March 1968 in the open defiance of the Gomułka regime by intellectuals and students, with riots in Warsaw and several other Polish cities. Gomułka survived the crisis and at the Fifth Party Congress in November 1968 was reelected first secretary, but his political influence was clearly on the wane.