Change_of_leadership : appoint-29.1












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NP (Selector) V () PP[to] (Body) NP (New_leader)
NP (Selector) V () PP[from] (Circumstances) VPto (Function) 2nd (New_leader) NP (Role)
NP (New_leader) V () PP[from] (Circumstances) 2nd (Role) CNI (Selector)
NP (New_leader) V () PP[in] (Circumstances) CNI (Selector) NP (Time)
NP (Selector) V () VPto (Function) NP (New_leader) 2nd (Role)
NP (Selector) V () VPto (Function) NP (New_leader)
NP (New_leader) V () PP[by] (Means) 2nd (Role) CNI (Selector)
NP (New_leader) V () DNI (Role) CNI (Selector)
NP (New_leader) V () PP[as] (Role) PP[to] (Role) CNI (Selector)
NP (Selector) V () NP (New_leader) 2nd (Role)
NP (Selector) V () NP (New_leader) NP (Role)
NP (Selector) V () NP (New_leader) PP[as] (Role)
NP (Selector) V () 2nd (Circumstances) NP (Old_leader) 2nd (Role)
NP (Old_order) V () PP[in] (Circumstances) CNI (Selector)
NP (Old_leader) V () 2nd (Means) 2nd (Role) PP[by] (Selector)
NP (Old_order) V () 2nd (Means) PP[by] (Selector)
NP (Old_order) V () PP[by] (Means) CNI (Selector)
NP (Selector) V () PP[by] (Means) NP (Old_order)
NP (Old_order) V () CNI (New_leader)
NP (Old_order) V () 2nd (Old_leader) PP[by] (Selector)
NP (Old_leader) V () DNI (Role) CNI (Selector)
NP (Selector) V () NP (Old_leader) DNI (Role)
NP (Selector) V () NP (Old_leader) 2nd (Role) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Selector) V () NP (Old_leader)
NP (Old_order) V () CNI (Selector)
NP (Selector) V () NP (Old_order)
NP (Old_leader) V () PP[in] (Circumstances) 2nd (Role) CNI (Selector)
NP (Selector) V () NP (New_leader) PP[as] (Role) PP[after] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Theme) NP (Attribute)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Theme) PP.attribute[as,to] (Attribute)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Theme) to (Attribute) be () NP ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Theme)


Examples from WordNet


We elected him chairman of the board



Examples from VerbNet


They elected John.
We elected him as governor.
We elected Alan to be our new governor.
We elected him governor.



Examples from SemCor


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.