Sentence examples for were elected for from inspiring English sources

The following day, two bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital and one in Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq, killed at least 23 people.In an election in Kuwait, four women were elected, for the first time in an open, multi-candidate poll in a Gulf monarchy.

Since the 1995 election, La Paz has had four mayors, with the consequent instability and unrestricted corruption that results from collusion between mayors and council members.Previously, mayors were elected for two-year terms with re-election.

They were elected for a nine-year term of office, in three tranches (elections for a third of the deputies were to be held every three years).

Superiors were elected for three years.

No women were elected, for the second straight year.

But it must be up to our elected representatives to do what they were elected for.

The governor is elected for four years.

Episcopal bishops are elected for life.

Mr. Obama was elected for similar reasons.

He was elected for the fourth time in 2004.

Each class is elected for a term of three years.