Example sentences of "[be] [adv] elect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Solicitor-General assure the House that similar treacherous activities will not take place when the next Labour Government are democratically elected under my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) ? |
| 2 | These had been directly elected for the first time in 1986 [ see p. 34305 ] . |
| 3 | It has its own Parliament , members of which have , since 1979 , been directly elected by member states ( by proportional representation in all cases other than that of Great Britain ) ; the European Court of Justice ; the Council of Ministers ( consisting of a representative of the government of each member state ) ; and the Commission ( the members of which are full-time administrators ) |
| 4 | Both the President and the Vice-President are directly elected for a six-year term . |
| 5 | Most of the 244 members of the Rajya Sabha are indirectly elected by the state assemblies ( one-third being replaced every two years ) while all but two of the 544-members of the Lok Sabha are directly elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 6 | The President and National Congress are directly elected for concurrent five-year terms . |
| 7 | The legislature is the 40-member National Assembly , of whom 34 are directly elected for a five-year term ( with four specially elected members and two ex officio ) ; 31 of the directly elected seats are currently held by the ruling Botswana Democratic Party and three by the Botswana National Front . |
| 8 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral National Assembly , 112 of whose members are directly elected for a five-year term ; the President can also appoint an unlimited number of deputies to the Assembly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Most of the 244 members of the Rajya Sabha are indirectly elected by the state assemblies ( one-third being replaced every two years ) while all but two of the 545-members of the Lok Sabha are directly elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 11 | Under the Federal Constitution which came into force in 1901 , legislative authority within the Commonwealth of Australia is vested in a bicameral Federal Parliament consisting of the Senate whose 76 members ( 12 from each of the country 's constituent states and two each for the Northern Territory and the Capital Territory of Canberra ) are directly elected for a six-year term and retire by rotation , one-half from each state on June 30 of each third year ; and the 148-member House of Representatives elected for three years ; each state has its own legislature , government and constitution . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | They are the executive body , and the national assembly is the people of the Kuwait , and fifty members are directly elected by the people through the twenty constituencies which we have , and you have here the legislative body , in other words a parliament of fifty members and the government , and they sit together and they run the business of the country like any other parliament , and if you look to the television and see what happens in the House of Commons , it is exactly what happens in Kuwait . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Supreme Constitutional Court judged on May 19 that the People 's Assembly had been unconstitutionally elected in 1987 because a 1986 amendment to the 1972 electoral law had unfairly discriminated against independent candidates . |
| 18 | The Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) held its national congress on Feb. 11 in Le Bourget , just outside Paris , assembling for the first time delegates who had been internally elected under party reforms . |
| 19 | The majority of the members of both bodies hold lifetime seats , having been originally elected in 1947-48 to represent constituencies on the Chinese mainland . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the policy of Her Majesty 's Government on the number of seats that will be directly elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1995 . |
| 23 | Frei , replacing Andrés Zaldívar , became the first party leader in the PDC 's 34-year history to be directly elected to the post in a vote involving all party members . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Patten proposed that all 230 district and urban council seats be directly elected in 1995 ; currently , a third of the seats were appointed . |
| 28 | The agreement , between conservatives , moderates and liberals , calls for 40 per cent of the legislature to be directly elected by 1997 , and 60 per cent by 2001 . |
| 29 | This group is demanding that delegates to the party congress next July be directly elected by rank-and-file members . |
| 30 | 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 : |