Sentence examples for were elected under from inspiring English sources

If she were elected under emergency rule, they said, she too would likely lose popular support.

But the speaker of the City Council, Christine C. Quinn, has argued that sitting Council members should be given the chance to run for a third term, out of fairness, since they were elected under the existing law.

In an email to HuffPost, Whitford pointed to several measures passed since 2012 by Wisconsin lawmakers who were elected under those arguably unconstitutional maps.

Anti-immigrant fervor brought the Know-Nothings their highest numbers to that point, and some northerners were elected under the auspices of the new Republican Party.

Virtually none of the candidates running for office are willing to voice opposition to Sisi, and many Egyptians liken the situation to the rubber-stamp parliaments that were elected under Mubarak.

Jefferson, of course, was elected under the original election procedure where the candidate with the second highest number of votes became vice president, so he ended up as vice president to Adams, a member of the opposing party.

The Australian Senate is elected under PR.

At first, the Council was elected under a citywide system of proportional representation.

In Estonia a single-chamber parliament (Riigikogu) was elected under a system of proportional representation.

His supporters argue that his first term did not count, since he was elected under the previous constitution.

Most countries in the Americas have not done so because Mr. Lobo was elected under a government installed by a coup.