Sentence examples for was elected over from inspiring English sources

Though the election belonged to the Democrats, Breckinridge, a Whig, was elected over five challengers for the office.

Mr. Cannella was elected over Ms. Caballero, the target of the attacks by the correction officers' union.

Besides 1992, they were 1960, when John F. Kennedy was elected over Vice President Richard M. Nixon; 1976, when Jimmy Carter defeated President Gerald Ford; and 1980, when Ronald Reagan defeated President Carter.

In February 1801, Jefferson was elected over Aaron Burr after 36 ballots in the House of Representatives when Alexander Hamilton, describing Jefferson as "the lesser evil," used his influence to break a deadlock that lasted all night.

I've been scrutinising the Met police since I was elected over 13 years ago and I think water cannon are a terrible idea; I think it would be deeply damaging to the principle of policing by consent if the Mayor of London was to allow this military weapon onto our streets.

Well, then I really am ready for the loony bin.' " Mr. Giuliani told the breakfast meeting that he had just come from the airport with Joel Giambra, the Erie County executive who was elected over the incumbent Democrat last November and who underwent surgery for throat cancer a month later.

In 1979, the year before Reagan was elected, over-all government spending came to 19.6 per cent of G.D.P.

"They'll say, 'Oh, I'm just one person,' or 'It's just the same kind of people being elected over and over again,' " she said.

There would not necessarily be more citizen-legislators in the House, since in plenty of state and municipal offices the same representatives are elected over and over again for decades.

And will it change after March when (supposedly) President Vladimir Putin's successor will be elected?Over coffee, participants competed to cite new outrages in the pro-Kremlin press.

When Labour won its landslide victory in 1945 so many Fabians were elected (over 220) that the parliamentary Labour party was said to "look just like an enormous Fabian school".