Example sentences of "[adv] elect [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Congress in its present form dates back to Mikhail Gorbachev 's ; it was not elected by general suffrage , but ( on behalf of the whole of what was still the Soviet Union ) partly elected on a local basis and partly nominated by special interest groups . |
| 2 | Such a government was finally elected on 14 August 1949 after an intense election campaign . |
| 3 | The head of state is the President , who since 1976 has been nominated by the congress of the ruling National Liberation Party ( FLN ) and formally elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term . |
| 4 | These are composed largely of local councillors indirectly appointed by their local authority but not directly elected to these bodies . |
| 5 | Executive power is held by the President ( also directly elected for five years ) , assisted by a Vice-President and an appointed Cabinet . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Legislative power is vested in the bicameral Legislative Assembly , comprising a 27-member Senate and a 53-member House of Representatives ; both chambers are directly elected for four-year terms . |
| 9 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral National Congress consisting of a Senate of at least 30 members and a Chamber of Deputies of at least 60 members , both directly elected for five-year terms ( subject to dissolution ) at the same time as the President . |
| 10 | Legislative power is held by a bicameral National Congress comprising a 30-member Senate and a 72-member Chamber of Deputies , both directly elected for five-year terms ( subject to dissolution by the President ) . |
| 11 | The President and National Congress are directly elected for concurrent five-year terms . |
| 12 | The final recommendation ( the committee had divided almost equally ) was for an assembly of which two-thirds would be directly elected with one-third elected by the territorial councils of chiefs . |
| 13 | Key institutions : ( i ) The Commission ( which proposes legislation and implements the Treaties-for composition see pp. 36405-06 ) ; ( ii ) the Council ( the key decision-making body generally comprising the relevant government ministers from each state but also meeting twice a year at head of state and government level as the European Council ) ; ( iii ) the Parliament or Assembly , directly elected since 1979 ; ( iv ) the European Court of Justice ; ( v ) the European Investment Bank ; and ( vi ) the Economic and Social Committee ( Ecosoc , an advisory body ) . |
| 14 | Emboldened by its example , Hong Kong 's Legislative Councillors decided that not less than half their number should be directly elected in 1995 , and the rest 10 years later ; they later scaled the first figure down to 40 per cent , to win the suport of more conservative interest groups . |
| 15 | Patten proposed that all 230 district and urban council seats be directly elected in 1995 ; currently , a third of the seats were appointed . |
| 16 | Between them these parties also took all seven seats in the Bosnia-Hercegovina state Presidency , which was directly elected in separate voting on Nov. 18 . |
| 17 | Half of them are directly elected in 248 territorial constituencies , and the other half are additional members indirectly elected by means of party-list votes . |
| 18 | The BLDC political subcommittee ( composed of 10 Chinese and six Hong Kong representatives ) proposed that 30 per cent of the Hong Kong Legislative Council ( Legco ) would be directly elected in 1997 , rising to 40 per cent in 1999 and 50 per cent in 2003 [ for figures proposed under the second draft of the Basic Law published in February 1989 see p. 36763 ] . |
| 19 | The political model codified in the Basic Law proposed that one-third of the Hong Kong Legislative Council ( Legco ) be directly elected in 1997 , rising to half in 2003 . |
| 20 | The DP secured 62 per cent of the vote , winning an overall majority with 92 of the 140 seats in the new People 's Assembly ( including 90 of the 100 seats directly elected by individual constituencies — see February 1992 electoral law p. 38775 ) . |
| 21 | Martin Lee , an outspoken critic of China and a proponent of full democracy for the territory , had called for half the Legco seats to be directly elected by 1995 . |
| 22 | Legislative powers reside with the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) comprising the upper house ( Ständerat ) of representatives from the cantons and the lower house ( Nationalrat or National Council ) directly elected by proportional representation . |
| 23 | Under the 1980 Constitution an executive President is elected every five years with the 65-member unicameral National Assembly ( of which 53 members are directly elected by proportional representation and 12 are regional representatives ) . |
| 24 | The King agreed that the forthcoming elections should be by secret ballot , with parliamentary candidates nominated by chiefs and directly elected by traditional tribal communities ( tinkundla ) . |
| 25 | Mr. Michael Latham presented a Bill to abolish the General Synod of the Church of England , on a date to be appointed ; to provide for the creation of a Church of England Assembly , consisting of a house of all diocesan , suffragan and assistant bishops , and a joint house of clergy and laity , to be directly elected by all Church of England clergy and lay persons on parochial electoral rolls ; to make provision for the Diocese of Sodor and Man ; to empower the Assembly to decide on all appropriate matters , except those within the legal responsibilities of the Church Commissioners , without further reference to Parliament ; to provide for the election of new bishops by members of the house of bishops , saving the right of final approval of the chosen candidate by the Crown ; to abolish the Ecclesiastical Committee ; to abolish the automatic places of bishops in the House of Lords ; to permit ordained clergy of the Church of England , with the consent of a diocesan bishop , to seek election to the House of Commons ; and for connected purposes : |
| 26 | In addition , the legislature was to be altered from the existing bicameral system [ see pp. 38626-27 ] to a unicameral system , whereby the People 's Great Hural was to be directly elected by all citizens over 25 years old . |
| 27 | A key change to previous proposals was the suggestion that the executive council be directly elected by all South African citizens . |
| 28 | This group is demanding that delegates to the party congress next July be directly elected by rank-and-file members . |
| 29 | Legislative authority is vested in a Chamber of Representatives elected for a six-year term and comprising 306 members , of whom 206 are directly elected by universal adult suffrage , and the remainder by an electoral college composed of local councillors and representatives of professional bodies . |
| 30 | The administration consists of an executive President who is directly elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term , and who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |