Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] elected " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other radicals who were present argued that they should join with the eleven newly elected people , ‘ reasoning that since we held the initiative we would be able to force the pace , drag some of them along in our wake and force the others quickly to resign ’ . |
| 2 | Official results for the 300 directly elected members of the Jatiya Sangsad were published on March 8 [ for election and preliminary results see pp. 38006-07 ] . |
| 3 | The PNC won 42 of the 53 directly elected seats in the National Assembly in the December 1985 general election after the withdrawal of the PCD [ see pp. 34162-63 ] ; the PCD also boycotted the November 1989 municipal elections [ see pp. 37492-93 ] . |
| 4 | In the more marginal areas , most notably Seoul and its surrounding Kyonggi province , the DP secured an unexpectedly high level of support ; it won 25 of the 44 directly elected seats in the capital , compared with 16 for the DLP and two for the UNP . |
| 5 | In addition to electing the 212 members of the Chamber of Representatives ( lower house of parliament ) , voters also elected the 106 directly elected members of the 184-member Senate ( upper house ) . |
| 6 | A total of 667 candidates fielded by 17 political parties contested the 225 directly elected seats in the 325-member Assembly . |
| 7 | The leading liberal party , the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDHK ) , led by Martin Lee and Szeto Wah , won 12 out of the 18 directly elected seats in the 56-member Legco . |
| 8 | The UDHK had won 12 of the 18 directly elected seats in the September 1991 elections to the Legislative Council [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 9 | The Mouvement socialist mauricien ( MSM ) , led by Jugnauth , and the Mouvement militant mauricien ( MMM ) , led by Paul Bérenger , together won 57 of the 62 directly elected seats in the 70-member Legislative Assembly ( compared with 47 seats at dissolution ) . |
| 10 | In the legislative elections which took place on the same day , Jawara 's People 's Progressive Party ( PPP ) secured 25 of the 36 directly elected seats in the House of Representatives , six fewer than at dissolution . |
| 11 | BORIS YELTSIN , maverick and volleyball enthusiast , is the only plausible rival to Mikhail Gorbachev for the first freely elected president of the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | At a Volkskammer session on April 12 " the first freely elected parliament of the GDR recognise[d] joint responsibility for the humiliation , expulsion and murder of Jewish men , women and children " . |
| 13 | If it came to constitutional change , he would prefer it to involve the introduction of direct presidential elections — no doubt hoping that the first directly elected president would be none other than himself . |
| 14 | The renewed impetus which ultimately led to the SEA derived considerable support from the first directly elected European Parliament ( EP ) . |
| 15 | President Collor assumed office in March 1991 , the first democratically elected civilian President of Brazil since 1961 . |
| 16 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 17 | During and after the February 1990 elections the nine popularly elected representatives had demanded to know the whereabouts of US$20,000,000 reportedly received by the government for Tongan passports sold to Hong Kong Chinese . |
| 18 | In this way local authorities became the only publicly elected bodies for the area having accumulated all the powers of ad hoc bodies . |
| 19 | Congressional elections to the 60 provincially elected seats were held on June 17 , 1990 [ see p. 37529 ] . |
| 20 | The 28 then elected continued to sit for life but the last of them , the Earl of Kilmorey , died in 1961 . |
| 21 | But the traditional Fijian elites , the power and influence of Australian and multinational companies , and US military and strategic interests were seriously threatened by the last duly elected civilian administration , Bavandra 's Labour government . |