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More importantly he was the only independently elected figure we had in town and I knew he had a strong reputation for local grass roots community work
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Why? Her new friends, the girls sharing her digs had elected to go on to a small club a few yards down the street, but not she
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had been elected for the 27th time to govern Buttercup, the last 25
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times, he was elected unopposed
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and elected representatives, values open to change
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Their dragons suited them well and when given the choice, when the time came, it was with great pride that they elected to accompany the Second of the Ancients overseas
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Later that year, being the largest account holder at the great and majestic bank, and because of his newfound fame as a television celebrity, the soldier was unanimously elected as its new chairman
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Sir John, aware that he had to make a strong showing in the midst of so many hawk-eyed, elected members, exclaimed, "Oh yes Sir, isn't it magnificent, so well argued, so concise, so irrefutably true
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There was a look of madness in every elected representative’s eyes, and the reporters in the gallery, having assumed they were in some way mentally sub-normal, were ready to hang on every word that the great politician might say
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Rather than picking her petals off one by one in the time honoured fashion of lovers everywhere, Tom elected, being in a romantic mood and disinclined to do harm to such a simple little bloom, to kiss each petal in turn
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You never told me you were elected head boy at school!’
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celebrity, the soldier was unanimously elected as its new chairman
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every elected representative’s eyes, and the reporters in the gallery,
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Tom elected, being in a romantic mood and disinclined to do harm
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“It is said that some people from Faerie elected to stay in Ireland,
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A School Committee shall be elected from among the citizenry with school age children, and shall be responsible for suggested curricula and textbooks
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Truancy shall be cause for severe punishment, specifics of which to be determined by the newly elected School Committee whose plenary powers in these matters may be redressed only by petition, whose subscribers must number over half the current enrollment of the School at the time of submission
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Richard Rowinski won and he was elected our student council representative
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She understands the challenges of getting elected with her background, but she remains
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elected to travel on in the dark rather than stay
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the second, by being elected into an annual parish office, and serving in it a year ; the third, by
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For instance, he always elected to
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In effect nobody else got a chance of being elected as he would declare a winning opponents election null and void
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elected leaders are not just ok, and the mechanism of
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The colony settled its own form of government, enacted its own laws, elected its own magistrates, and made peace or war with its neighbours, as an independent state, which had no occasion to wait for the approbation or consent of the mother city
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form of elected government is instigated”
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After Uar was elected the undisputed ruler
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Uar was the undisputed elected leader of
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In Connecticut and Rhode Island, they elected the governor
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to vote in their elected leader and his 2IC,
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seven elected leaders were finalized and at
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Rex had gathered the fourteen elected
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signing table; the seven elected board
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‘What?’ bleated all the seven elected
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board member - and you - the elected, as
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elected member signaled to their 2IC
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The lords decided to run the kingdom by an elected council, but that council began voting on kings to rule until death, when another king would be chosen
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In 6357, Rylan Kamuna was chosen, and though the pretense of an elected monarch lasted until his death, it was then that the next Dynasty began
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The newly elected colony commander decided to have a brig constructed within the wreck of the Elysian, to hold the saboteur until a longer term solution could be decided
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Both settlements were run by the Committee, a small group of elected representatives chosen by democratic elections every two years
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Jim was the current elected head of the Jupiter Trade Bureau, a loose union of the various private trade organisations working in a wide range of orbits around the gas giant Jupiter
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They are not elected, they don’t have to comply with the will of the people here
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Jim took his hand and shook it slowly, “I haven’t been elected to the role
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“But Sacred Earth is not an elected body, what gives you the authority to
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In the ancient constitution of the Christian church, the bishop of each diocese was elected by the joint votes of the clergy and of the people of the episcopal city
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The abbot, in the same manner, was elected by the monks of the monastery, at least in the greater part of abbacies
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In order to render the election valid, it was necessary that the sovereign should both consent to it before hand, and afterwards approve of the person elected; and though the election was still supposed to be free, he had, however all the indirect means which his situation necessarily afforded him, of influencing the clergy in his own dominions
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Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy in
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Garfield was elected president of the
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Waddell elected to sail to Australia without steam in order to
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Consequently, Waddell elected to press on to Australia
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Some of the prisoners elected to join the Shenandoah as crew, but the majority chose to decline
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Ex Chief of Staff to Barak Obama, and recently elected mayor of Chicago
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the Shenandoah elected to remain on Ponape Island rather than be transported to Guam, which Waddell offered as an option
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somehow he was elected in absentia and did not turn it down
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If he had not been favorable to the terms of surrender, he may have elected to
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Else, how could the American electorate have elected Obama?
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We currently have, therefore, a murderous so-called polity versus an elected Prime Minister trying, against all costs, to keep his people from being blown up by suicide bombers
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And when, during the campaign, a reporter asked what he would do first if elected, he came up with this classic riposte: „Demand a recount
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President Ivanov was someone who had been democratically elected – though could there have been a more stark illustration of the flawed nature of democracy? In centuries past, people voted for the radical alternative seemingly out of desperation, for whoever seemed convincing enough that they alone held the key to a better future
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Jeff Davis was elected president of the Confederacy in 1861, and General Grant was elected president of
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" Not to put too fine a gloss on it, but that statement could well be described as the ranting of a juvenile narcissist, wearing short pants, who in no way should have been elected President of the United States
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The truth: It had been a hierarchy of fear; the Nine had kept the elected leaders under threat
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The island‘s first (I believe) elected president, a practicing Marxist and former priest whose efforts at nationalizing the country‘s resources has earned him the accolades of the International Left as well as misinformed Americans who envision this thug (Aristides) as some numinous divine, has been unceremoniously overthrown by a
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Very bad decisions were made by guess who else but our elected politicians who see the SAPS as a political scoring exercise
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But tactful administration today, sustained by Cuban officials elected by the people, will assuredly foster the desire of the people to become an integral portion of the United States
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An elected official is duty bound to serve as the people‘s choice but not as their surrogate ―proxy‖; that is to say, not necessarily in accordance with their (own) intended designs
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An elected official, however ―duty‖ bound to promote the interests of his or her constituents, is equally bound, if not more so, to serve the interests of the nation in whatever manner such commitments might (otherwise) conflict with (narrower) parochial interests or concerns
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(Fat Chance!) No elected official, however, (it gets sticky) should be expected to lend his or her political (or moral) support, to questionable assumptions, however popular, that, from the standpoint of that politician‘s private viewpoints, are considered either unethical or immoral
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"Treachery by the very Custodians that were elected to protect us!"
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It leaders will need to provide comprehensive guidelines articulating its position on abortion, assisted suicide, affirmative action, civil rights, conservation, environmental and family issues, education and the death penalty, among a number of issues of immediate concern to many blue collar voters disheartened with ―business as usual‖ establishmentarians seated across both sides of the political aisle who seem to have forgotten the voters that elected them into public office or the reasons why they were elected to begin with
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All of the so-called terrorists or communist-terrorists as the Rhodesians called them became the elected government at the end
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Bush is among a long line of Moderate/Liberal Republicans; a list that includes former presidents Nixon and Ford and (would) have arguably included former Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole had he too been elected president, who simply failed to grasp the fundamental importance of lower taxes and increased productivity as the primary drivers that promote economic prosperity
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California's elected representatives successfully pushed Congress into rejecting all treaties in a secret vote, and then ordered documents related to the treaties kept secret for 50 years
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That many ran as Conservative Republicans on the campaign trail only to govern as Liberal Republicans or Democrats, which I suppose is one and the same, once they were elected, may partly explain the reason for the party‘s declining popularity
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Aristide was the first democratically elected Haitian president in generations, but many US conservatives found him “radical
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The Shah claimed to be part of an ancient dynasty, when in fact he was put in power in 1953 by a CIA coup, overthrowing the elected President Mossadegh
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During the Civil War he joined the Confederacy and was elected to the Confederate Congress, dying shortly before taking office
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McKinley was elected as the most pro-business president America had seen up to that point, and big business was divided over the Spanish-American War
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In 1907 the Philippines elected one house of their legislature
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In 1916 they elected both houses
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Obviously, if democracy were the true reason for US conquest, the country would have become independent shortly after 1916, when Filipinos first elected their own congress
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Franklin Roosevelt was an accomplished man with great success in ending the Great Depression, non-dogmatic in his thinking and practices, and the most popular US president of all time, elected four times
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Lincoln explicitly did not get elected to end slavery
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Buchanan was elected largely because Fillmore, running as a Know Nothing, split the vote
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Though Lincoln was elected president, and Buchanan was warned by his leading general, Winfield Scott, that seven states might secede, Buchanan made no effort to stop these treasonous plans
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A US with either John Quincy Adams or Henry Clay elected instead of Jackson would see a better future
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Born extremely sheltered and privileged, Roosevelt's family connections helped get him elected to the New York legislature and several other posts that led to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he schemed to get the US involved in the Spanish-American War while the actual Secretary of the Navy was on vacation
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What I find surprising, however, is that many were/are routinely elected from traditionally conservative districts and states
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) Ironically, Bush was often mocked during the 1988 election by commentators claiming he could not be elected because of “the wimp factor
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He tried to get elected as president on his own, openly proclaiming he was the best hope to stop Black equality
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Sixteen Blacks were elected to US Congress, some of them former slaves who had taught themselves to read only a few years before
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Some of these same congressmen were re elected for up over 30 years, until 1900
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Hundreds of Blacks were elected to Republican Conventions and in local offices
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When Batista overturned the results of an election, a newly elected senator, Fidel Castro, led a revolt
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The elected President Juan Jose Torres was a left leaning army officer of mostly Indian ancestry
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Socialist Salvador Allende was legally elected in 1970, and Nixon immediately conspired with the CIA and phone company AT&T to overthrow him with a blockade, strikes, paid agitators, until finally a military coup brought him down
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Kissinger has also long been accused of ordering the murder of General Rene Schneider of Chile for refusing to overthrow the elected President, Salvador Allende
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In Chile, Socialist leader Allende was elected in a coalition that included some Communists
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Similar coalitions were also elected multiple times in France and Italy
