Sentence examples for was almost elected from inspiring English sources

The attacks by Mr. Green, who was almost elected mayor in 2001, came in the closing weeks of a campaign that has seen Mr. Cuomo take a commanding lead in fund-raising and polls while gaining important backing from unions and other politicians.

Baruch Marzel was almost elected.

Of course, Marine Le Pen of the National Front was almost elected president of France; in Bulgaria, there's Ataka.

Of course, Marine Le Pen of the National Front was almost elected President of France; in Bulgaria there's Ataka and the RPF – and there have even been pogrom-like actions against Roma in that country.

During an appearance on "The Jim Engster Show," first reported by BuzzFeed, Duke -- who was almost elected Louisiana's governor in 1991 -- said he was considering running against Scalise because the congressman had betrayed his constituents.

Mr. Deutch resigned as director in December 1996 and was almost immediately elected to the Citibank board.

Shareholders vote on a slate of about 15 board members, who are almost always elected with 99 percent of the vote.

Sheriff Amerson noted that unlike police chiefs, sheriffs were almost all elected officials and had to answer to their constituents.

The class is a big, at times boisterous group of men and women who were almost all elected on a platform of fiscal conservatism, and who have stuck together asthey have pushed their party to take a hard line on government spending.

Wilson was almost an accidental leader, elected after the premature death of Hugh Gaitskell early in 1963.

While Erdogan and his AKP party--like the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood-have been rightly criticized for autocratic tendencies, this attempted coup against their democratically elected government was almost immediately defended as a "necessary corrective action" by the military.