Example sentences of "elected [prep] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Supreme Soviet was bicameral , consisting of the Council of the Union and the Council of the Nationalities , each consisting of 750 deputies elected for five years . |
| 2 | Legislative authority is now vested in a unicameral National Congress , with 100 members elected for five years by universal adult suffrage . |
| 3 | Executive power is held by the President ( also directly elected for five years ) , assisted by a Vice-President and an appointed Cabinet . |
| 4 | Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly , with 117 members elected for five years by universal adult suffrage . |
| 5 | The Republic of Maldives ( called the Maldive Islands until 1969 ) has an executive President elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage , a Cabinet appointed and presided over by the President and a 48-member Citizens ' Assembly ( Majilis ) , 40 of whose members are elected for five years and the remaining eight appointed by the President . |
| 6 | Under the 1980 Constitution legislative power is held by the unicameral National Assembly , comprising 65 members ( 53 elected for five years by universal adult suffrage , on the basis of proportional representation , and 12 regional representatives ) while executive power is held by the President . |
| 7 | It comprises a Senate , made up of 315 senators elected for five years on a regional basis as well as seven life senators , and a 630-member Chamber of Deputies , also elected for up to five years . |
| 8 | The office of president ceased to exist upon the death in 1980 of Marshal Josip Broz Tito [ for which see pp. 30472-73 ] , being replaced by a Collective State Presidency whose eight members ( one from each republic and province ) are elected for five years ( most recently in May 1989 — see pp. 36662-63 ) by the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Parliament ) . |
| 9 | Juvénal Habyarimana ) and the 70-member National Development Council ( CND ) , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( Mouvement révolutionnaire national pour le développement — MRND ) . |
| 10 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament composed of a House of Representatives which is popularly elected for five years and a Senate appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister ( currently Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson ) and of the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 11 | Legislative power is vested in the bicameral National Assembly , composed of a 28-member House of Representatives ( popularly elected for five years ) and an appointed Senate . |
| 12 | The President ( currently Fred Timakata ) , who is the republic 's head of state , is elected for five years by an electoral college which is composed of the Parliament and the presidents of the Regional Councils ( local government bodies to which a considerable degree of power is constitutionally devolved ) . |
| 13 | Legislative power is exercised jointly by the President and the 70-member National Development Council , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) . |
| 14 | Legislative power is vested in the bicameral National Assembly , composed of a 28-member House of Representatives , popularly elected for five years , and an eight-member appointed Senate . |
| 15 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament composed of a House of Representatives , popularly elected for five years , and a Senate appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister and of the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 16 | Candidates for the 79 National Assembly seats had to be over 25 and would be elected for five years . |
| 17 | Under the terms of the 1982 Constitution legislative authority is vested in the National People 's Congress ( NPC ) , the members ( approximately 3,000 ) of which are indirectly elected for five years . |
| 18 | The President , the republic 's head of state , is elected for five years by an electoral college composed of the Parliament and the Presidents of the Regional Councils ( local government bodies , to which a considerable degree of power is constitutionally devolved ) . |