Sentence examples for selected election from inspiring English sources

The results are based on 1,097 Democratic primary voters and 205 Republican primary voters, in 40 randomly selected election districts across the city.

The complex system that was devised allowed some direct elections and some indirect ones, via a carefully selected "election committee" (the mechanism also used to choose the chief executive), and some "functional constituencies", the majority of which would do what China told them.

They also worried that Iraqis would lose faith in the credibility of local and national elections if Mr. Maliki's office began to select election monitors or to change the rules governing where voting took place, how ballots were counted and who ran polling stations.

He also wants to introduce US-style open primaries to select election candidates, starting with the contest to be Labour's next London mayoral candidate.

There has also been talk of greater use of open primaries to select election candidates - where everyone living in a constituency is eligible to vote whether they are a party member or not.

The other main issue is over the way three member nominated directors have been selected for election to the board.

The chief executive of the leading seniors' organisation, Ian Yates, said the calls to reverse or modify the policy were "based on a weak narrative about selected poor election results and fewer well-heeled supporters manning polling booths".

That the prime minister and treasurer are under pressure to reverse sound policy to make super fairer based on a weak narrative about selected poor election results would be laughable if it wasn't so serious.

The board of regents, with eight voting members, is one of only a handful in the nation's public university systems that are selected by election rather than appointment.

The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be selected by election or through consultations held locally and be appointed by the Central People's Government.

Article 45 of this mini-constitution of Hong Kong carries similar language from the Joint Declaration: "The Chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be selected by election or through consultations held locally and be appointed by the Central People's Government".