Sentence examples for turned congressman from inspiring English sources

The next year, in the Republican primary, he faced the University of Nebraska's much-beloved football coach turned congressman, Tom Osborne.

Many have put their hopes in Jair Bolsonaro, a soldier turned congressman who is openly nostalgic for the law and order of the dictatorship.

"When I grew up, you wouldn't think of 'skegging' someone -- slashing them with the fin of the board," said Brian Bilbray, a surfer turned congressman from San Diego.

On Jan . 6 the day after the death of Mr. Bono, the pop star turned Congressman, a staff member at a company specializing in leveraged buyouts sent an E-mail note to a friend on the trading floor of the investment bank Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette

Jack Kemp, the former football star turned congressman who with an evangelist's fervor moved the Republican Party to a commitment to tax cuts as the central focus of economic policy, died Saturday evening at his home in Bethesda, Md .He was 73.

Dan Egan, who's now working as a TV host after serving as Selena Meyer's communications director, finds Jonah Ryan, the former White House aide turned congressman, shaving his head in an apparent attempt to trick people into thinking he has cancer.

There were those re-enactments of the founding fathers, as well as a film in which the Declaration of Independence was read by former N.F.L. players against patriotic backdrops, including two players turned congressmen, Jack Kemp and Steve Largent.

Along with six other Republican lawmakers, Representative Ted Poe, a judge turned Texas Congressman, sent a letter to the F.B.I., demanding that Twitter ban two militant groups, Hamas and Hezbollah, that are on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations.

Romario, the football star turned feisty congressman, has accused the designers of destroying the best stadium in the world.

Mr. Chambliss, a lawyer turned conservative congressman, had the superior debating skills and the help of President Bush, who visited Georgia three times this year to campaign for him.

"Voters talk a lot about hypocrisy but they don't vote based on it," said Eric Stewart, who ran last year against Scott DesJarlais, a doctor turned Republican congressman in a conservative district in rural Tennessee.