(a.) Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
(a.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.
(a.) Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.
(n.) One chosen or set apart.
(n.) Those who are chosen for salvation.
(v. t.) To pick out; to select; to choose.
(v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.
(v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(3) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(4) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(5) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(6) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(7) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(8) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(9) It is concluded that extradural adrenaline does not usefully reduce systemic absorption of 0.5% bupivacaine, but may improve its efficacy in extradural anaesthesia for elective Caesarean section.
(10) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(11) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(13) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(14) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(15) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
(16) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(17) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
(18) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
(19) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(20) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.
Reelection
Definition:
(n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .
(2) Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) China's Communist Party has now publicly praised Obama's reelection.
(3) But even his admirers would hesitate to call him a great economist, and after FDR's landslide reelection in 1936, Morgenthau made cutting the federal deficit his personal cause.
(4) But some of the key groups of supporters who brought Corbyn the leadership and secured his reelection in September – young, internationalist, liberal – feel strongly that Brexit is wrong for Britain.
(5) Why is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not standing for reelection 3. Who can stand in the election?
(6) Bush received roughly 40% of the Latino vote share in his 2004 reelection.
(7) The amendment's success came as House Republicans were preoccupied with selecting a new majority leader to replace Virginia's Eric Cantor, who lost his reelection primary.
(8) That it was more than just a personal bugbear became clear in June 2013, when we learned that PennCAN, yet another so-called “school-reform” group focused on vouchers, privatization, and the destruction of public schooling, had financed a “secret poll” that encouraged Corbett to attack the PFT in hopes of gaining support ahead of his midterm reelection campaign.
(9) Greece needs to take its responsibility [seriously] … we will also speak with Turkey .” But Greece’s leftist Syriza party, bidding for reelection in next Sunday’s vote, called for external help in dealing with the crisis.
(10) In a further challenge to his reelection chances for 2017, the party’s national council announced on Saturday that it would back a primary contest to select a single presidential candidate for the broader French left – a prospect that is likely to embolden potential Socialist challengers.
(11) • Back to the top Why is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not standing for reelection?
(12) To have a chance of being reelected, he must win over a large part of the record 6.4 million people who voted for the far right's Marine Le Pen in the first round.
(13) Clinton said the pattern of mass killings – the Umpqua shooting was the 994th such incident in the US since Obama’s reelection in late 2012 – was “beyond my comprehension”.
(14) She’s up for reelection for a third term in March but has been hemorrhaging public support since the case broke.
(15) His post-reelection tweets also included: " What subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birthcontrol abortions & lives " and " Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide.
(16) It may not be this Trump, but it could be the Trump in four years time, as America becomes a society shaped by global forces that Washington can’t control.” Responding to a question about rising popular discontent with the Australian, US and UK establishments and support for Brexit, Trump, and newly reelected senator Pauline Hanson, Carr said there was a “self-correcting process” and Trump as president would result in “an enormous rethinking”.
(17) They wanted this moment of political opportunity, and they wanted it in time for Corbett’s reelection.
(18) Reelected in 1997 for the seat of Hampshire North West following boundary changes, he served as William Hague's shadow defence secretary from 1997 to 1998.
(19) Its director, Ahmad Moeinimanesh, has made personal financial donations to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chair of the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee even though her congressional district is on the other side of the country in Florida, as well as to her reelection committee.
(20) A headline in the Washington Post even called it “the unofficial kickoff of his 2020 reelection campaign ”, suggesting that in the age of permanent campaigning, Trump will spend the next four years trying to shore up the support in the midwest that was so crucial to his success.