Example sentences of "was elect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Later , Shakurulla Mirsaidov was elected Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) . |
| 32 | Popular Front deputy chairman Ivars Godmanis was elected Chairman of the Latvian Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) on May 7 . |
| 33 | Earlier , the Chamber of the People had elected Rudolf Battek ( Civic Forum ) as its Chairman , while Milan Sutovec ( PAV ) was elected Chairman of the Chamber of Nations . |
| 34 | Gyula Fetke was elected chairman of the Hungarian People 's Party on Jan 20 , 1990 . |
| 35 | In October 1989 Lennox Denoon was elected Chairman of the Tobago House of Assembly to replace Jeff Davidson , who had announced his resignation on Sept. 26 . |
| 36 | Lisbet Palme , widow of the assassinated Swedish Prime Minister , Olof Palme [ for whose murder in February 1986 see p. 34363 ] , was elected chairman of the UNICEF Executive Board in June 1990 . |
| 37 | Following worker demonstrations in 1970 he was elected chairman of the workshop strike committee and spent several days in detention . |
| 38 | In September he was elected chairman of a new National Co-ordinating Commission of Solidarity , set up by representatives of the regional organizations which had recently come into being . |
| 39 | Partido Justicialista ( Justicialist Party , the official name for the Peronists , of which Menem was elected chairman in August 1990 [ see p. 37651 ] ; Eduardo Menem vice-ch . ) . |
| 40 | Mustafa Dzhemilev , a leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement , was elected chairman . |
| 41 | At an extraordinary session of its Supreme Soviet on Sept. 18 , Byelorussia was renamed to become the Republic of Byelarus , and Stanislav Shushkevich was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet — de facto president of the republic — in succession to Nikolai Dementei [ for whose resignation , after supporting the August coup , see p. 38373 ] . |
| 42 | Sali Berisha was elected chairman by 449 votes to 98 , despite an attempt by his opponents to persuade him to step down as leader . |
| 43 | Martin Porubjak was elected chairman of the new party . |
| 44 | President Abdou Diouf of Senegal was elected chairman of the Organization for the Development of the River Senegal ( OMVS ) at the 10th summit of the heads of state or government of member countries , held in Nouakchott , Mauritania , on Aug. 24-25 . |
| 45 | She was elected Chairman of Kent Teachers in 1982 and is currently Treasurer , she also coaches the Kent Display Team . |
| 46 | A member of the German parliament from 1965 to 1989 , Klepsch first entered the EP in 1973 and was elected head of the EPP in 1984 . |
| 47 | Despite being repudiated by his new party , he was elected state representative in 1989 and was nominated for US senator in 1990 , taking 44 per cent of the vote in losing to the incumbent Democrat . |
| 48 | He was elected FSA in 1916 . |
| 49 | Petre was elected FSA and FRS in 1780 , and was also a leading Freemason and grand master of the English Freemasons 1772–6 ( the last Catholic to hold that office ) . |
| 50 | In 1623 his friend in Florence , Maffeo Barberini , was elected Pope and Galileo could not wait to get to Rome to see him , and the reception was cordial . |
| 51 | Kastriot Islami , the Education Minister , was elected Assembly president ( Speaker ) . |
| 52 | Bede records that when Beorhtwald , abbot of Reculver , was elected archbishop of Canterbury on 1 July 692 , Wihtred and Swaefheard were ruling in Kent ( HE V , 8 ) . |
| 53 | He was elected archbishop of York on Christmas day 1060 , and gave up the see of Hereford , while intending to hold York and Worcester together , like some earlier archbishops . |
| 54 | A new election was ordered and Bruno , provost of Bonn , a faithful adherent of Otto ( who had , indeed , brought notice of Otto 's election to Rome ) was elected archbishop of Cologne and his election confirmed by the pope on 22 December 1205 . |
| 55 | Teatao Teannaki , the outgoing Vice-President of Kiribati , was elected Beretitenti ( President ) on July 3 after winning 46.3 per cent of the votes cast . |
| 56 | Mr. Browne served on two select committees — treasury and social security and was elected secretary of a number of backbench committees , including defence and finance . |
| 57 | She was elected secretary . |
| 58 | Marcia Cruz , a print and broadcast journalist living in São Paulo , Brazil , was elected Secretary , and Daví Nelson Betts , who also lives in São Paulo and works with the grassroots communication organisation CAVE-Brasil , was re-elected as Treasurer . |
| 59 | Ian has been involved with the Commerce and Industry Group North Eastern Section for some time , and in May 1990 was elected Secretary of that Section . |
| 60 | At the first meeting of the Labour Group he was elected Secretary , a position which he has held until today . |