Participants at "Women Forging a New Security: Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict" shared ideas and developed strategies to join together as an organized movement, ending with a day of action, in which they called upon the public to pressure their elected officials to "take a stand".
However limited these choices might be, Iceland's citizens retain absolute authority to hold their elected officials accountable for the decisions they have reached (within the nation's external constraints), and to strike down every piece of legislation those elected officials have decided upon in the past.
By making devolution dependent upon their being an elected mayor with oversight over new combined authorities, the government is attempting to demonstrate a sort of democratic legitimacy built into its devolution agenda.
When Nashville Mayor Richard Cheatham was imprisoned for refusing to take the oath, Nashvillians insisted upon their right to elect replacements for imprisoned officers.
Upon his initiative the Hungarians elected their first prince, but they preferred Árpád to his father.
An earlier version stated that upon being elected Colau reduced her pay from €140,000 to €28,600.
Upon getting elected, he embraced four big goals: reduce tariffs; create an independent treasury; establish American control of California and most of the Oregon Territory.
Upon being elected governor, Palin began developing relationships with Washington insiders, who later championed the idea of putting her on the 2008 ticket.
Frank Cahoon, one of the first Republicans ever elected to the Texas House (he is now retired from politics and living in Midland) heard from Rove after Cahoon openly disagreed with some of the appointments Bush made upon being elected governor.
But Mr. Boudou has succeeded in becoming the politician with the worst public image in Argentina, a country that, in general, does not look kindly upon its elected officials.
