oust 'COD: drive out or expel, especially by forcing oneself into the place of' elect 'COD: choose (someone) to hold a position, especially public office, by voting. ' dethrone 'COD: with obj. remove (a monarch) from power. ' install 'FN: place as leader.' overthrow 'COD: remove forcibly from power' topple 'FN: to overthrow.' depose 'COD: remove from office suddenly and forcefully'
They elected John. We elected him as governor. We elected Alan to be our new governor. We elected him governor.
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Rep._Berry, an ex_gambler from San_Antonio, got elected on his advocacy of betting_on the ponies. After a long, hot controversy, Miller_County has a new school_superintendent, elected, as a policeman put it, in the`` coolest election I ever saw in_this county''. The state had elected Republican candidates in the past two years. Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched. As the common_man 's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin_of_his_teeth. To hang 50 Governors might be preferable except that they are not directly related_to the highways; so, all things considered, the highway commissioners would seem to be elected. Elected to the board_of_directors were: He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee_members at the meeting in the Puddingstone_Inn:`` When I come_back here after the November election you 'll think,' You 're my man- you 're the kind_of governor we 're glad we elected'''. John_Di_Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus_Day Celebration_Committee, it was announced yesterday. The widespread purge that has taken_place the past twelve months or_so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central_Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on_the_job. One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe_Jones, drumming to`` Old_Man River'', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year 's concerts. Registered Democrats in New_York_City this year have the opportunity to elect their party 's candidates for Mayor and other municipal posts and the men who will run their party organization. Ambassador_Stevenson yesterday described the U. N. 's problem of electing a temporary successor to the late Dag_Hammarskjold as`` the gravest crisis the institution has faced''. there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces. If it failed on_occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was a remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican_party. `` We 'll take the truth to the people, and the people will like the truth and elect their candidate and party in November''. Under the proposal the members of the board_of_trustees of a county college will be appointed; none will be elected. The New_York University Board_of_Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130- year history of NYU, it was announced yesterday. He was elected to the National_Academy_of_Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931( after receiving his first Ranger_Fund_Purchase_Prize at the Academy in 1930), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940. His reference_to' discredited carcass' or' tattered remains' of the president 's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in_all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president_of_the_United_States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations. Retiring to his beloved Mount_Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal_Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.