Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] elected " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would perhaps be better to concentrate on giving support for the newly elected socialist MPs , and trying to refound a clear sense of what socialism means today . |
| 2 | Initially Mitterrand pressed for a rejection of the Senate 's amendments on the grounds that they amounted to an attempt to elevate the powers of the indirectly elected Senate to those of the directly elected National Assembly . |
| 3 | A referendum on Dec. 1 , 1989 , approved the decision by King Hassan of Morocco , to extend the term of the partially elected Moroccan legislature by two years ( see p. 37219 ) . |
| 4 | They were reading a notice which proclaimed the names of the newly elected Mayor and the officials appointed by him : |
| 5 | The SLORC issued a statement on July 27 which laid down the powers and responsibilities of the newly elected People 's Assembly , but gave no indication as to when it would be allowed to convene . |
| 6 | The appointment ended three weeks of political uncertainty during which Sheikh Hasina Wajed , leader of the second-largest party , the Awami League , challenged Begum Zia to demonstrate her majority at the first session of the newly elected Jatiya Sangsad ( National Assembly ) , scheduled for April 5 . |
| 7 | The main thrust of these changes , it was reported , was aimed at strengthening executive authority , particularly that of the newly elected mayor 's office . |
| 8 | By June 19 , by which time most of the newly elected Congress ( I ) members had congregated in Delhi for a meeting of the parliamentary party , two candidates had emerged , namely Narasimha Rao , who had replaced Gandhi as party president in May [ see p. 38175 ] , and Sharad Pawar , Chief Minister of Maharashtra . |
| 9 | The sole function of the newly elected Assembly would be to approve constitutional reforms at a special session due to be held in April 1992 . |
| 10 | Executive Secretary Peter Garrucho , a key aide of the newly elected Philippine President Fidel Ramos , resigned from the Cabinet on Aug. 10 , after little more than a month in office . |
| 11 | The three , all of whom faced corruption allega-tions , were among the first victims of the newly elected government 's avowed determination to combat official malpractice . |
| 12 | The deepest chord in Spanish revolutionary politics is the centralista tradition which holds that central government is an emanation from the direct democracy of the popularly elected municipality . |
| 13 | Later in December , three meetings were held in one day — those of the Bondholders ' , the Club 's first Annual General Meeting and the first committee meeting of the constitutionally elected members — Anker Simmons chairing the first two and Dr. J. Susman the third . |
| 14 | Not once has the ‘ waverer ’ , General Kukanjac , hinted that he would be willing to recognise the authority of the democratically elected Bosnian government . |
| 15 | A total of seven political parties contested the general election of October 1989 , but only two obtained representation in the Assembly , the Botswana Democratic Party winning 31 of the directly elected seats and the Botswana National Front three . |
| 16 | The legislature is the 40-member National Assembly , of whom 34 are directly elected for a five-year term ( with four specially elected members and two ex officio ) ; 31 of the directly elected seats are currently held by the ruling Botswana Democratic Party and three by the Botswana National Front . |
| 17 | Initially Mitterrand pressed for a rejection of the Senate 's amendments on the grounds that they amounted to an attempt to elevate the powers of the indirectly elected Senate to those of the directly elected National Assembly . |
| 18 | National pamphleteers remote from the social relations of the villages might rant on about the idle and undeserving poor , but relief at local level was in the hands of the annually elected parish overseers supervised by the vestry meeting , and they knew their own poor well enough . |
| 19 | The Conservatives opposed independence or large-scale devolution ; the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) favoured " independence in Europe " ; and Labour and Liberal Democrats advocated the establishment of a separately elected Scottish parliament . |
| 20 | International issues could be under the aegis of a separately elected British Parliament which would replace the House of Lords . |
| 21 | The growth of fringe bodies is a retreat from the simple democratic principle evolved in the nineteenth century that those who perform a public duty should be fully responsible to an electorate — by way either of a minister responsible to Parliament or of a locally elected council . |
| 22 | In a few areas a detailed election manifesto has been adopted at the first meeting of a newly elected council as a basis for council policies ( Fudge 1981 ) . |
| 23 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of a popularly elected House of Assembly and an appointed Senate . |
| 24 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral parliament consisting of a popularly elected 49-member House of Assembly and an appointed 16-member Senate . |
| 25 | Certainly to some he made the point that a government defeat would raise potential constitutional problems — the Lords could not lightly defy the will of a democratically elected House of Commons . |
| 26 | First , the constitutional authorities want to limit the sovereignty of Parliament by law ; second , they want to reinvigorate the various checks on the power of a democratically elected government through changes designed to bolster a more " balanced " constitution ; and third , they look to the checks implicit in a genuine revival of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 27 | In consequence , they seek to prevent democratic damage and state intervention by choosing to emphasise the desirability of setting legal limits to the powers of a democratically elected parliament . |
| 28 | In the Russian Republic , where a further question was put , 69.9 per cent of those who took part also supported the introduction of a directly elected presidency . |
| 29 | Executive power is in the hands of a directly elected President ( bereft of some of the powers used by Marcos ) and an appointed Cabinet . |
| 30 | The DYP was reported to be ready to support the changes , while the SHP was opposed to the creation of a directly elected executive presidency . |