verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an elected politician
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Are the country’s elected politicians trustworthy?
be elected to parliament
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She was elected to parliament in 1997.
elect a government (= vote to choose a government )
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A new government was elected last October.
elect a leader/elect sb as leader
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He was elected leader of his country by a huge majority.
elect a leader/elect sb as leader
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He was elected leader of his country by a huge majority.
elect a successor
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Ghanaians went to the polls to elect President Rawlings's successor.
elected unopposed
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Roberts was elected unopposed as president.
freely elected
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the country’s first freely elected president
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
democratically
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Perhaps Ken should stand as the next democratically elected mayor of Tehran?
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The council voted to have party leaders elected democratically , though it did not yet determine a method.
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Each democratically elected government has lasted a couple of months longer than its predecessor.
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The politician may have been democratically elected but the politician does not have the same experience as the career official.
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Currently, assistance can only be resumed when the president certifies that country has returned to a democratically elected government.
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They saw their democratically elected president overthrown by a military coup.
directly
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Under the 1987 Constitution an executive President is directly elected for a six-year term.
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The only federal officials to be elected directly by the citizens themselves were the members of the House of Representatives.
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Executive power is vested in the President, who is directly elected for a five-year term.
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But the deputies - whose number reached 562 - were elected directly at factory level and were subject to immediate recall.
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About a dozen services were transferred to the directly elected London boroughs.
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Mr Tung must maintain momentum towards democratic reforms, increasing the number of directly elected representatives in the territory's legislature.
newly
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The president wished his newly elected successor well.
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Abacha took power in a military coup in 1993 after the newly elected Moshood Abiola was deposed by a rival general.
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And he has been newly elected for the ward of Swale West.
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The previous week, we learned that newly elected Rep.
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Porras found an astute ally in newly elected President Alvaro Arzu, a pragmatic businessman with an instinct for building consensus.
■ NOUN
assembly
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Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly , elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term.
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Only a quarter of the 80 members of the new Assembly are old-timers elected before voters approved Proposition 140 in November 1990.
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A Constituent Assembly was elected in May 1990 but the military authorities have effectively prevented it from convening.
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The Assembly elects a 15-member Council of State, to which its powers are delegated between sessions of the Assembly.
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The National Assembly elected a number of new ministers on Aug. 10.
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The rulebook says the General Assembly elects him.
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Delegates to the higher assemblies were elected by the lower.
board
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The Profitboss therefore has no desire to be elected to the board .
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Public agencies get most of their funding from legislatures, city councils, and elected boards .
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In 1890 she was elected to the school board at Bradford and the West Riding education committee.
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Mr Balmuth joined Caldor in 1987 as president and was elected to the board in 1989.
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They elect a 45-member board of directors, which in turns elects a seven-member executive committee, which hired Harlan.
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The council would elect a board of directors to act as consumer advocates on judicial, legislative or regulatory health-care matters.
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Borland also elected a new board member, Harry J.. Saal.
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For example, an elected member of a board of education would be considered a public official.
candidate
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In order to be elected , a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast.
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To elect as many legislative candidates as possible this fall who are sympathetic to both sides.
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The Welfs could not allow such an election to pass unchallenged and a minority elected their own candidate , Siegfried.
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Political consultants used to be little-known operatives working in dingy offices trying to elect better-known candidates .
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After the first-round vote, it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected .
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It cost almost as much to elect an honest candidate as to elect a dishonest one, he observed.
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In six rounds of voting, deputies repeatedly failed to elect a candidate by the required majority of 531 votes.
chair
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Kamal Ormantayev, a member of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences, was elected as chair .
chairman
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And by most measures, he has been an unqualified success since January 1993, when he was elected party chairman .
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It elects a 15-member presidium, which in turn elects a Chairman who serves as State President for a five-year term.
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The Congress was also to elect the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet.
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Bashkim Driza was elected as party chairman .
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It elects a chairman and a Liaison Committee.
committee
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The party elected a seven-member operative committee .
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Daley was to be elected by the committee .
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The following members were elected to the Committee .
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They elect a 45-member board of directors, which in turns elects a seven-member executive committee , which hired Harlan.
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Only 42 new members were elected to the committee , mostly party or government officials from the central or provincial levels.
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Townspeople organized themselves and elected committees .
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Mr R. Newcombe was elected to the Committee to represent the Clun members.
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When the party is in opposition it also elects the Parliamentary Committee or Shadow Cabinet.
congress
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We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress .
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The new officers were to be elected at a special congress in December.
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Unless we elected a flat-tax Congress as well, Forbes' pledge would have been hollow.
council
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Public agencies get most of their funding from legislatures, city councils , and elected boards.
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A 105-member national council was also elected .
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In the 1975 election, however, voters chose four independent candidates for the council and elected independent Margaret Hance as mayor.
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It decreed that a council of representatives would elect a president and would be responsible for drafting a constitution.
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The council would elect a board of directors to act as consumer advocates on judicial, legislative or regulatory health-care matters.
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The Parliamentary Council was elected from the Landtage in proportion to the population of the eleven Länder.
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It also established a 150-member National Assembly elected from among the members of eight directly elected regional councils .
deputy
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The republic's 245,000 registered voters were to elect deputies to the 42-seat Federal Assembly from 320 candidates representing 21 parties.
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In the recent elections, Bustamante, who had returned from exile, had been elected as a deputy to Congress.
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The president would no longer be chosen by voters but by an electoral college of supposedly nonpartisan locally elected deputies .
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Peter Reith, an unsuccessful contender for the leadership, was elected as deputy leader.
fellow
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It may also be possible to award grants of lesser value to applicants not elected as the Fellow .
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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and had powerful support from politicians and writers.
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Harmer was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1898, served on the council, and was a vice-president.
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He had been elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1793.
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Clarke was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862 and received a Royal medal in 1887.
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She was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1904, and was the first woman to serve on its council.
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Kempe was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1881 and its treasurer in 1898.
government
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He then handed power to an elected government , but it failed to stop the economic decline.
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Britain must now throw this opportunity away by electing a Labour government .
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S.-backed coup which overthrew a democratically elected government .
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Supposing Yorkshire or Cornwall decided by a majority vote to secede from Britain and elect their own government .
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Currently, assistance can only be resumed when the president certifies that country has returned to a democratically elected government .
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They have seen their elected government removed at gunpoint and now face having their democratic rights withdrawn.
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It happened just 10 months ago under the elected civilian government of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
house
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Before investigating the design of the autonomous house it is worth asking why the authors elected to design a house.
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In addition, forty-seven women were elected to the House of Representatives, a record number.
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Before they were elected to the House in 1972, Mississippi had no Republicans in Congress.
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Both were elected to the House in 1946.
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A black Republican was elected to the House in 1992, and a second in 1994; this autumn may bring more.
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This year 37 black candidates were elected to the House out of 53 who ran, some of them in all-black races.
leader
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This system relies upon the ability of the electorate to elect and dismiss leaders at periodic intervals.
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More, apparently, than our elected leaders possess.
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The Parliamentary Party was not in fact electing a prime minister; it was electing a new party leader .
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That, said the ejidatarios' elected leader , Rafael Garcia Espinoza, was never the peasants' intention.
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The gunmen have made a point, but they must now leave room for talks by elected leaders to go forward.
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The village elders were encouraged to establish a system of local government, and elected their leaders .
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Shareholders as the electorate are given the power to elect and dismiss their leaders , the directors.
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It would grant them greater control over electing their own leaders and over their natural resources and economies.
legislature
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Executive authority is nominally vested in the President who is elected by the legislature to no more than two five-year terms of office.
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And the local elected legislature will cease to exist.
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More blacks have been elected to the state legislature , and a black also heads the Dade county commission.
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The convention which framed the constitution was indeed elected by the state legislatures .
majority
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Their 1997 came in1984 when, just like New Labour, they were elected with a large majority .
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None gave the Tories a hope of being elected with a working majority .
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Mann himself was elected by a large majority while still in prison.
mayor
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But later this month it will become even more so when Socialist Party candidate Bertrand Delano is elected as mayor .
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Discontent grew, however, when elected black mayors found that they had few economic resources to command.
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Perhaps Ken should stand as the next democratically elected mayor of Tehran?
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The newly elected mayor said he has plenty to do in his own job, which he began two weeks ago.
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The bill also includes measures to reform local government by creating directly elected mayors and cabinets.
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In city government, public policy is supposed to be enacted by an elected mayor and council.
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Brown resigned from the Assembly in December when he was elected mayor of San Francisco.
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Then the elite persuaded the newly elected mayor to appoint a committee to lay the groundwork for redevelopment.
member
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Following which nineteen members were elected .
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But members of Congress are elected to positions of responsibility and should know better.
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Committee members were elected annually and meetings were held monthly.
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An average of more than $ 1 million was spent for each of the 535 members elected to Congress.
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The following members were elected to the Committee.
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Until the bankruptcy, the members met annually and elected the symphony trustees.
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The founder-members numbered eleven, and in the first ten years of its existence a further forty-three members were elected .
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There is a Federal Assembly of 42 members , elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term.
minister
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Lukanov was formally elected Prime Minister on Sept. 19 by 234 votes to 104, with 34 abstentions.
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Helen Clark was elected as prime minister in 1999.
office
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In any case, the great reformer's past experiences have probably put him off the idea of elected office .
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The trappings of prominent elected offices do not shield the occupants from the challenges, temptations and failures of daily life.
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By 1988, 2,908 blacks were elected to public office in the southern states.
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Linda Chavez-Thompson, a union leader born of sharecropper parents, became the first person of color elected to the executive office .
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For years they have marched, waved flags and mouthed slogans whilst the people elected them to offices of wealth and privilege.
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Scott, who teaches political science at both Saint Francis and Ivy Tech, is making his first bid for elected office .
official
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Thanks to bitter memories of dictatorship, the constitution forbids a second consecutive term for any elected official .
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Once they expose the true cost of their subsidies, elected officials often decide that some are inappropriate.
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An estimated 1,400,000 people were eligible to vote to elect officials who in the past had been appointed by the President.
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One more small step away from control by elected officials and toward a government run by the bureaucracy.
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Cuthbertson said copies of the letter would be sent to a host of elected officials .
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Opponents also cite the city government as an example of where elected officials have abdicated their power to the appointed staff.
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As government has grown larger and more powerful, so have the temptations that bedevil elected officials .
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But citizens should at least get periodic report cards on what their elected officials are doing.
parliament
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You should just elect people to Parliament and have collective responsibility.
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He returned to politics in January 1995 when he and his wife were elected to parliament .
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Its Constitution provides for a President as head of state, elected by Parliament every four years.
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In 1972, at the age of 23, he was elected to parliament .
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Chaovalit would be the only member of the government not elected to parliament .
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They have developed a reasonably efficient administration, with an elected parliament and municipal councils.
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Voters elect members of Parliament from districts known as ridings.
party
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The party elected a seven-member operative committee.
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The council voted to have party leaders elected democratically, though it did not yet determine a method.
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The winning party gets to elect the next House speaker.
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This system ensured reasonably fair representation for each party , whilst preventing a large number of parties being elected to parliament.
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Budragchaagiyn Dash-Yondon, hitherto party chair, was elected as secretary-general.
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The party elected Prince Norodom Ranariddh as chair.
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Ruling party President Vassiliou was elected as an independent, and his administration is nominally a non-party one.
president
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Executive power is in the hands of a President who is elected for a six-year term by the National Assembly.
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The president is elected popularly for a fixed seven-year term and then selects a premier, who selects a cabinet.
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An executive President is elected every six years.
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Mr Balmuth joined Caldor in 1987 as president and was elected to the board in 1989.
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The president wished his newly elected successor well.
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The president is elected by the people.
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Executive authority is nominally vested in the President who is elected by the legislature to no more than two five-year terms of office.
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The President is elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage.
representative
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He was first elected a branch representative 20 years ago.
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Now our elected representatives are learning firsthand how petty and obnoxious federal regulation can be.
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Mr Tung must maintain momentum towards democratic reforms, increasing the number of directly elected representatives in the territory's legislature.
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It is important to note, however, that the assumption that electing representatives is all democracy requires is a faulty one.
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The majority of members serving on the Association's various standing committees are elected from the representatives on the council.
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The voters' elected representatives just might want a say in the proposed changes to state law governing education.
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The people elected were elected as representatives and not delegates.
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Should the people elect their representatives ?
senate
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Hadn't he actually been elected to the State Senate - old Jack Ryan's youngest lad?
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But in 1986 he won a seat in the House, and in 1994 was elected to the Senate .
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In 1879 he was elected to the State Senate , and in 1880 ran unsuccessfully for Congress.
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After being elected to the Senate , Kennedy and Nixon had offices across the hall from each other.
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Democrat Carol Moseley from Illinios became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate .
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Dole was elected to the Senate in 1968 and is serving in his fifth term, which would have ended in 1998.
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In 1966, she became the first black woman elected to the Texas Senate .
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Four years later, in 1986, he was elected to the Senate .
speaker
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The House vote on electing a speaker is traditionally on party lines.
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We now have Congressman Forbes, who has clearly said he will not elect the speaker .
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The winning party gets to elect the next House speaker .
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Since 1879, House rules have required a majority of those voting for a distinct candidate to elect a speaker .
term
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The President is elected for a five-year term by popular vote.
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Executive power is vested in the President, who is directly elected for a five-year term .
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Under this system policy is made by six council members and a mayor who are elected simultaneously for two-year terms .
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Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt, the bugaboo of monopolists, had just been elected to a second term .
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Among the successful opposition candidates was Hitoshi Motoshima, who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as mayor of Nagasaki.
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They are elected for a three-year term .
vote
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Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly, elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term.
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Three of the hardest selling dealers were elected , usually by vote .
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I was duly elected without a vote being needed, on to the Standing Committee, as were five other people.
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Seleznev was elected by 285 votes to two.
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For instance: is the test of a democracy the fact that a government is elected by the votes of the people?
voter
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The republic's 245,000 registered voters were to elect deputies to the 42-seat Federal Assembly from 320 candidates representing 21 parties.
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Under any such setup, voters elect a leader who espouses a program.
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The issue arose again this month, when Assam voters elected a new state assembly.
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Washington voters usually elect moderate Republicans and Democrats who could work together in Congress or in Olympia.
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When the ballots were counted, voters had elected a City Council with a Latino majority.
years
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The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress, which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system.
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But the character issue is not new and did not stop Clinton from being elected four years ago.
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An executive President is elected every six years .
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But they found grassroots leaders who were far superior to the slobs they had been electing over the years .
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Primary legislative authority is exercised through the unicameral Chamber of Deputies, elected every five years .
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It was proposed that the president be elected for two years without the right to re-election.
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Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Parliament, the 38 members of which are popularly elected for up to four years .
■ VERB
get
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Thaksin needs a large amount of funds if he is to honour the populist promises that got him elected .
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It helps, though, to get you elected .
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In return for getting Democrats elected , Sweeney will be expecting favors.
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The rich guys can get elected on their money, but somebody like me, an ordinary person, needs the party.
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Maybe they owned the President? they certainly paid to get him elected .
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The only thing invincible about the Machine is that it gets him elected .
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Another plan was to get Primakov elected , as long as he pulled out of the presidential race.
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Further, if blacks somehow got elected to political office, they must be mobbed and displaced.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
newly elected/formed/arrived etc
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A number of firms may also have had problems in achieving the synergies expected of newly formed structures.
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As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes, he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes.
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Balmy, near-equatorial currents from Panthalassa rushed between the sundered continents along the newly formed Tethyan Seaway.
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I knew that the press was doing a selling job when we supported a newly arrived unit from Hawaii.
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The newly formed opposition coalition insisted it was the majority and kept the original day and time.
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The amnesty was reportedly requested by the newly elected local councils of Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachbari.
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Then the elite persuaded the newly elected mayor to appoint a committee to lay the groundwork for redevelopment.
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Workshops and initiatives for the newly arrived civil engineers, tile-makers and labourers did not materialise.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I think we should start by electing a new chairman.
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Ken Livingstone was elected mayor of London in May 2000.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Britain must now throw this opportunity away by electing a Labour government.
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Dudayev declared Chechnya independent in 1991, shortly after he was elected president.
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In return for getting Democrats elected, Sweeney will be expecting favors.
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One is the Legislature, whose members are elected by the people to enact laws.
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Prior to 1981, most companies elected to use an accelerated method of depreciation for tax purposes.
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The founder-members numbered eleven, and in the first ten years of its existence a further forty-three members were elected.
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Under any such setup, voters elect a leader who espouses a program.