Sentence examples for universally elected from inspiring English sources

That the canceling of joint U.S/Egyptian military exercises was an inadequate response to the toppling of Egypt's first freely and universally elected head of state.

The national polls are seen in Kiev as a way of establishing a fully legitimate, universally elected government following pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovich's flight to Russia in February under pressure from pro-Western demonstrations.

Both men were their country's first universally and democratically elected presidents.

Late in 1925, James J. Walker, universally known as Jimmy, was elected mayor of New York.

Mr. Lieberman completed the film last year, just as Myanmar's new government — elected in a vote universally denounced as undemocratic — began to open up, making it a timely exposition of a little-known country now in the headlines.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former army field marshal who deposed Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's first freely elected president, is still universally expected to win by a landslide.

Yanukovych is not universally hated; after all, he was elected president.

Candidates seeking elected office for the first time almost universally justify their own election by saying the existing government is broken and that change is needed.

Republican presidential candidates, who have universally pledged to overturn Obama's executive orders if elected, reacted with swift outrage to the president's announcement.

One recalls gaffes like the late Literary Digest's forecast that Landon would be elected President in 1936, and the almost universally predicted victory of Dewey over Truman in 1948.

Robinson is universally recognized as a symbol of courage, defiance and dignity, elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.