Sentence examples for triumphantly elected from inspiring English sources

Norwich, Hull, Milton Keynes, Kingston on Thames, Lambeth, Southwark, Worthing, Cheltenham, Eastbourne - all now run by the Liberal Democrats - and Dorothy Thornhill triumphantly elected as Mayor of Watford.

The party lost, but when the new House of Commons assembled, he was triumphantly elected as Labour's deputy leader, under Harold Wilson.

In parliamentary elections that February, the nationalist movement Sajudis scored an overwhelming victory – although Brazauskas himself was triumphantly elected, proof of his popularity and of his ability to adjust to the changing times.

Fast forward three decades and we see Mandela finally freed, and triumphantly elected, on April 27 , 1994 as the first black leader of South Africa.

They faced a president on the ropes after a stinging defeat in the midterm election, not a president triumphantly re-elected.

Jacques Chirac was triumphantly re-elected.

Two weeks ago, Barack Obama was triumphantly re-elected as US president.

The German chancellor, though triumphantly re-elected with not a cloud in her political sky, is in no position to say, "I agreed with the Americans to allow 40m telephone calls a day to be intercepted in Germany; I just want them to stop listening to my phone!" The US listeners are having a political crisis beyond their previous imagining.

The evidence litters American foreign policy from Cuba (for Jorge Mas Canosa's influence, see article) to Israel (Vice-President Al Gore looks to Jewish groups to help pay for his presidential bid in 2000), to free trade (Mr Clinton, triumphantly re-elected only a year ago, cannot win fast-track negotiating authority).Mr Clinton is not altogether to blame.

When your consolation prize after a local election rout, the potential unravelling of the Euro fiscal pact and the end of austerity as the dominant mode of economic fashion is that the man best positioned to replace you has been triumphantly re-elected, it's not been a week to break out the Bollinger.

The challenge from the new Conservative administration, elected marginally in 1979 and triumphantly in 1983, was more fundamental.