Sentence examples for was eventually elected from inspiring English sources

When the rebel warlord was eventually elected president in 1997, one of his election campaign slogans was: "He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him".

Topical allusions in his book made his election to the French Academy difficult, but he was eventually elected in 1693.

She was eventually elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

Jefferson was eventually elected president by the House of Representatives, which chose him over Burr on the 36th ballot.

He was eventually elected to Parliament from the Loire-Atlantique region and then became the mayor of Nantes, France's sixth-largest city, in 1989.

It was a bruising, petty, internecine Oxbridge spat and another candidate, one of the college's law lecturers, was eventually elected by the fellows instead.

In Mr. Clancy's novels, Ryan is eventually elected president.

Both countries were eventually elected to the UNHRC, which has 47 member states.

Of the previous 16 players who garnered at least 50 percent of the vote in their first year of eligibility, including Yogi Berra, Roberto Alomar, Juan Marichal, Don Sutton, Carlton Fisk and Whitey Ford, all were eventually elected.

10), based on a nonfiction book by Ron Stallworth, tells the story of an African-American detective in Colorado who goes undercover as a member of a Ku Klux Klan chapter and is eventually elected as its leader.

Over 600 pages, "The Vicar of Christ" tells the story of an American who fights valiantly in the Korean War (as Professor Murphy did), becomes chief justice of the United States, resigns to become a monk and is eventually elected the first American pope.