Sentence examples for supposed to elect from inspiring English sources

Haiti was supposed to elect a new Parliament in February and a new president this November.

Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP Lebanon's parliament was supposed to elect a new president yesterday.

The legislators were supposed to elect their presiding officer on Thursday, in their first session of 2003.

On April 8th, when Algerians are supposed to elect their next president, she will stay at home.So will many other Algerians.

That would be just about the time that a new Iraqi assembly is supposed to elect a provisional government to run the country, which has been promised its independence by President Bush by July.

Indeed, the very fact that Americans are having to fight so fiercely inside a major city, 18 months after liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein, is a sign of how close Mr Bush's Iraq policy is teetering towards failure.Under the UN's plan, Iraqis are supposed to elect a new government by the end of January.

A significant portion was supposed to help elect a Republican to the White House but this weekend Mark Holden, general counsel and senior vice-president of Koch Industries, said it would instead go to helping GOP Senate candidates in at least five states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin and Florida.

Until you, in essence, become a spy for the American people, for the old democratic system in which government was the people's property and those we elect were supposed to let us know what they were doing in our name, you aren't just masquerading as one of them, you are.

Chair of soft-left pressure group Compass He wasn't supposed to be elected – he was.

These men who are supposed to be elected representatives of the people of the United States are actually, in this instance, representing the Vatican...

Although the president of the Eurogroup is supposed to be elected by ministers, as a practical matter the person is chosen by consensus among governments, opening the way for political horse-trading.