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Example sentences for: electing

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The Minangkabau custom of freely electing their leaders provided the model for rulership elections in modern federal Malaysia.
If we want principled leaders, electing more men like Nixon and fewer like Clinton wouldn't seem to be the ticket.
We're electing someone to run the government, not minister to the condition of our souls.
The movie isn't simply a fantasy of a commoner winning a princess, however; it's also a fantasy of a princess publicly electing to be with someone below her station.
That justification was the widely held convention that during his candidacy Clinton addressed the issues of his past infidelities, however obliquely, and that by electing him twice the public had given him a pass.