elected

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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado says she will be elected president of her country "when the right time comes," according to an interview aired on Fox News on Friday.

From Barron's

Miller, a fluent Spanish speaker, was Halliburton’s head of business development in Venezuela when Hugo Chávez was elected president and began to nationalize the country’s energy industry.

From The Wall Street Journal

"People just want government to work. They don't want chaos," Danny Ciesler, the newly elected Democratic sheriff of Bucks County, told AFP.

From Barron's

It might involve advocating behind the scenes with elected officials in Congress and statehouses, or with opinion leaders in the media.

From The Wall Street Journal

His more relaxed demeanour perhaps also helped, with his Wednesday spent far from a practice table as he instead elected to watch a musical with his wife Denise in London's West End.

From BBC