(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.
Senatorial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.
(a.) Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators; as, the senatorial districts of a State.
Example Sentences:
(1) He read Virgil , Ovid , Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations.
(2) Man can’t change climate.” The quick thinking from Inhofe now leaves Wicker, the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as the only Republican to still embrace the entire idea of climate change as a hoax.
(3) Bennet, who chairs the Democratic senatorial campaign committee, reportedly urged Obama behind the scenes to postpone further executive action to defer deportations, fearing the impact on tight election races.
(4) In Colorado, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a video called “The Mark Udall Dynasty” that spoofs the opening credits of the hit 1980s TV show Dynasty as the narrator says: “Wealthy, comfortable and established.
(5) McCain led a senatorial delegation to Moldova today, AP reports: Four U.S. senators visited Moldova Thursday to lend support to the former Soviet republic's move toward the European Union, while Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Ukraine to end a blockade of the country's separatist province Trans-Dniester.
(6) And while she’s hardly the only senatorial critic to Obama’s left – Senators Ron Wyden, Sherrod Brown and Bernie Sanders being perhaps the most vocal – she is the only one for whom soon-to-be minority leader Harry Reid carved out a new leadership role within the Senate .
(7) But more than 7,000 Democrats didn’t just turn up for a valedictory fry and senatorial rally.
(8) Pattern recognition study demonstrates that the outcomes of American midterm senatorial elections follow the dynamics of simple integral parameters that depict preelectoral situations aggregated to the state as a whole.
(9) His political candidates – such as Wang – can be his employees, and Wang will now employ on his senatorial staff the two people who ran with him on the WA Senate ticket: Chamonix Terblanche and Des Headland.
(10) The 37-year-old insists he’s not walking away because he can no longer compete, but because of the forthcoming senatorial election on 9 May in his native Philippines , an office he’s expected to win that will consume far more time than his current duties as a congressman.
(11) In the 1990s, his senatorial visit to Vietnam with fellow veteran John McCain cleared the path for a diplomatic rapprochement.
(12) Mourdock did receive support from the national Republican senatorial committee.
(13) Proceeds of the 11 July lunch , priced at $250 to $2,500, will also go to the national Republican Senatorial Committee.
(14) The push involves the recruitment of 4,000 paid staff and will cost $60m, and is being orchestrated from Washington by Guy Cecil, who was Bennett’s chief of staff and is now executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
(15) In an interview with the Guardian, Guy Cecil, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said there was concern that restrictions imposed by Republican-dominated legislatures in the key races could affect the outcome of the battle to control the upper house.
(16) Taken with the Democratic National Committee's almost $16m debt and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's $3.75m debt, the parties are roughly even.
(17) The National Republican Senatorial Committee raised $36.6m last year and had $8m banked.
(18) What he did was to trample the dignity of the senatorial elite into the dirt and what he discovered in doing that was that the mass of the Roman people really enjoyed it.” Holland said there were parallels with what Trump has done to the Republican establishment.
(19) He told guests at a fundraising event for the Democratic senatorial campaign: "Some of you saw that there was an interesting election yesterday.
(20) I can point to one: a senatorial election,” he said.