Sentence examples similar to was elected lord from inspiring English sources

The following month Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey was elected Belfast's first Republican lord mayor.

By most measures, Mexico has some way to go before it becomes another Colombia where, by the end of the 1980s, the government was at war with two left-wing guerrilla movements that at one point controlled a third of the country, and the most infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar, was elected to parliament.

Lord John Sewel, 69, was elected as Chairman of Committees in May 2012, and was responsible for upholding standards in the House of Lords.

In 1765, Burke became private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham (who had just become First Lord of the Treasury) and was elected to the British House of Commons in the same year.

Mrs Woolf became the second woman since 1189 to take on the role of Lord Mayor of London when she was elected in 2013.

Khan was shadow lord chancellor and shadow justice secretary under Ed Miliband; he was elected mayor of London in May this year.

Nevertheless, he was elected.

Well, he was elected.

Eisenhower was elected.

Mr. Walesa was elected.

Who was elected president?