Example sentences of "elected [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Dellow , deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , has been elected the new president of the Association of Chief Police Officers . |
| 2 | But when the citizens of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers cast their stones into the pot last week and elected the managing director of Amalgamated Metal Trading on to their council with the biggest number of votes , they elevated the nearest that divided body has seen to a populist . |
| 3 | And Ramsey was elected the Cambridge regius professor by the votes of five men out of seven . |
| 4 | An emergency congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party yesterday elected the former prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , as chairman to guide it through free elections due within six months . |
| 5 | Mr. Walker 's draft bye-laws were referred to a Sub-Committee — which in the event was elected the following December at the first Annual General Meeting . |
| 6 | This covers the whole of the costs up to May 16th , 1908 ( the official Opening ) and when the officers elected the previous December , formally took over the working of the club and course . |
| 7 | ‘ The Spanish have elected the Popular Front to government . |
| 8 | Three weeks later , Lord Rivers ( later to be a vice-president of the College ) was elected the Odiham Society 's president . |
| 9 | The association was resuscitated in 1976 , after a lapse of 10 years , by Professor Richard Penny , Ruth Layton being elected the first ‘ new ’ president . |
| 10 | A possible solution to this particular problem ( which is not supported by the CBI ) would be a quotient system of election , under which shareholders and employees jointly elected the board , with their respective votes weighted to give employees between one-third and one-half of the value of the total votes cast . |
| 11 | The outgoing Executive Committee of the Venice Biennale has elected the art critic Achille Bonito Oliva interim curator for the Visual Arts section . |
| 12 | Initially a member of the Christian Democratic Party and elected the youngest Congressional deputy in 1974 at the age of 26 , Marianella resigned from the party in September 1979 on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were not serious about the denunciation and investigation of human rights violations . |
| 13 | So an unholy alliance of cow-keepers and slum-owners repeatedly elected the kind of corporation that would fight to the death ‘ the unsightly monster ’ of enclosure — as the mayor called it in 1825 . |
| 14 | But under the revised membership clause of the constitution the Rev W. B. Sleight , who was not a missioner , was eligible for this honour and it was he , who , " in accordance with the general feeling " , was elected the first President of the BDDA . |
| 15 | John Young was elected the first honorary Director , and the BDA agreed to provide the administration for the time being . |
| 16 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 17 | Kinloch stood as the Whig candidate in the election that followed , and in December of that year was elected the first MP for the borough . |
| 18 | He took a leading part in the formation of the Institute of Marine Engineers and was elected the first president in 1889 . |
| 19 | He seemed to have been elected the most avoidable man in the clubhouse . |
| 20 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 21 | Elections to the Bundestag ( Federal Diet — which in turn elected the Chancellor ) were due on Dec. 9 , 1990 . |
| 22 | In December 1984 a Constituent Assembly ( elected the previous July in preparation for a return to civilian government ) drafted a new constitution based on that of 1965 ; this was approved in May 1985 and came into effect in January 1986 . |
| 23 | Li Yuan-tzu was elected the next day as Vice-President with 93 per cent of the votes , receiving 602 out of 644 cast . |
| 24 | The delegates , numbering about 900 and representing more than 100,000 members , elected the union 's founder , Konstantin Trenchev , as president . |
| 25 | In Kirghizia on April 10 and Tadjikistan on April 12 the newly elected republican Supreme Soviets elected the first secretaries of their republican Communist Parties ( CP ) , respectively Absamat Masaliyev and Kakhar Makhkamov , to the post of Chairman ( i.e. President of the republic ) . |
| 26 | Under Resolution 44/308 of Nov. 1 , the Assembly elected the following 18 states to the UN Economic and Social Council ( following the expiration of the term in office of one-third of the Council 's membership ) for a three-year term beginning on Jan. 1 , 1990 ( * — re-elected ) : Algeria , Bahrain , Bulgaria* , Burkina , Canada* , China* , Ecuador , Finland , German Democratic Republic , Iran* , Jamaica , Mexico , Pakistan , Rwanda* , Soviet Union* , Sweden , United Kingdom* , Zaïre* . |
| 27 | Under Resolution 44/309 of Nov. 1 , the Assembly elected the following 29 states to the 58-member Governing Council of the UN Environment Programme for a four-year term beginning on Jan. 1 , 1990 ( * — re-elected ) : Argentina* , Austria , Barbados* , Brazil* , Burundi* , China* , France* , Gabon* , Gambia , German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) , Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) * , Indonesia* , Japan* , Kuwait , Lesotho* , Mauritius* , New Zealand , Norway , Peru , Philippines , Spain , Thailand , Tunisia , Soviet Union* , United States* , Venezuela* , Yugoslavia* , Zaïre* , Zimbabwe . |
| 28 | In accordance with his wish to democratize the independence movement , on May 15 the Tibetan People 's Deputies ( a parliament-in-exile ) for the first time elected the three-member Cabinet hitherto appointed by the Dalai Lama . |
| 29 | In October 1989 the PPF had elected the then Justice Minister Kalman Kulcsar as its chair . |
| 30 | Civic Forum , the movement which had emerged to lead the November 1989 revolution in the Czech lands and which with its Slovak sister organization Public Against Violence had won the June 1990 general election [ see p. 37542-43 ] , elected the Federal Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus as its first chair at a delegates ' meeting in Prague on Oct. 13 . |