Sentence examples for used to elect a from inspiring English sources

Jocelyn Wallace of Arizona might have saved herself $250 had she realized that her contribution to keep a "brash, pushy woman" out of office was to be used to elect a man of similar qualities.

Apparently there was a dispute about the method used to elect a new Speaker in the Kenyan parliament that was only resolved when someone picked up a copy of Erskine May and read out the section about the secret ballot procedure.

"The Brethren" features a superbrilliant C.I.A. chief with access to incalculable secret funds that he uses to elect a president who will be sufficiently combative toward the Russians.

the voting system for the new Lords or Senators (the proposal which almost no-one likes is for a variant of the system used to elect MEPs - a PR list system in which you can pick an individual and not just a party).

It used to elect Sir Cyril Osborne, a serial espouser of every reactionary cause.

Plurality voting is used to elect mayors, who serve a term in office of four years.

And we used to elect the national executive in an open election.

Additional "top up" seats would be elected based on voters' party preferences to provide more proportional representation within regions - e.g., provided a fairer reflection of voter intent, along the lines of the mixed member system used to elect the Bundestag in Germany and a growing number of national legislatures.

This is essentially the same method that France uses to elect presidents, only instead of a general election, the French hold a runoff between the two leading candidates from the first round.

But this is more of a problem with the particular electoral system we use to elect our politicians, rather than a problem inherent in the parliamentary system itself.

The citizens of Paraguay used the decree to elect a governor, and would use it many more times to not merely elect replacement governors, but also to depose disliked appointed governors.