Sentence examples for was thus elected from inspiring English sources

When a tribune, voicing the popular enthusiasm, threatened to veto the consular elections unless Scipio was accepted as a candidate, the Senate gave way and allowed the tribunes to introduce a bill to exempt Scipio from the legal restrictions; he was thus elected consul and given the African command.

Trump was thus elected as a Republican.

The majority of the people in this country rejected the far-right party earlier this year in the general elections, yet the fact remains that until the BNP is voted out of the European parliament, it retains its two MEP seats and are thus elected representatives for the thousands from whom they managed to gain support.

Instead, Crosbie Ward, the editor and proprietor of the Lyttelton Times, was the only person nominated on 28 May 1858 and was thus declared elected.

Among those calling for him to consider his position over the weekend, including Sturgeon herself, the point has been made that his sanctioning of the leak was compounded by the fact that he lied about his knowledge of it at the time and he was thus re-elected as the only Liberal Democrat MP in Scotland on a false prospectus.

When the nomination meeting was held on 8 March in Market Square, only Brittan and Dr Alfred Charles Barker were nominated, and both were thus declared elected.

It was thus for Parliament - elected politicians - not unelected officials or former officials to decide, even though MPs were kept in the dark and officials knew far more than MPs.

Ong was thus declared the first Elected President of Singapore.

Twelve of the new cardinals are under the age of 80 and are thus eligible to elect Benedict's successor.

The legislature had been returned to Whig control, and thus elected Briggs.

We have seen so far that the Augustinians in effect reason as follows: God's saving grace is irresistible in the end, and yet everlasting torment in hell will nonetheless be the terrible fate for some; therefore, God does not love all created persons equally and his (electing) love is thus limited in its scope.