Sentence examples for was briefly elected from inspiring English sources

Samson was known to have been summoned by Dyfrig to join the monastery in 521 and he was briefly elected abbot before leaving for Cornwall.

Mr. Berlusconi owns Milan AC, the soccer team that won the national championship in 1993 and again in 1994, the year he was first, if briefly, elected prime minister.

Three weeks ago, when I was briefly worried that Donald Trump could in fact be elected president, I began drafting a faux "apology" to the clown prince of politics.

Endicott Peabody's record of honourable failure was briefly interrupted in 1962 when, after a lengthy recount of the votes, he was elected governor of Massachusetts.

Elected to parliament in 1910, he resigned his seat in 1912 to campaign for women's suffrage, and was briefly imprisoned after publicly supporting militant action.

It was briefly pop.

Work was briefly interrupted.

Curling was briefly cool.

It was, briefly, fun.

The voters now get to decide less and less (in the cases of Greece and Italy, technocratic prime ministers were briefly installed, rather than elected).

You're briefly unlimited.