How to Use unelected in a Sentence

unelected

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• Just leave that to the unelected, behind-the-scenes elites.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
• Like the prince, the shah was an unelected monarch with a tarnished human rights record.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• Most of the unelected rulers of the Gulf states long ago lost interest in the Palestinian cause.
  — Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
• Netanyahu and his allies say the changes are needed to curb the powers of unelected judges.
  — Tia Goldenberg and Isaac Scharf, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
• Instead, that role is reserved for the queen, an unelected white Briton.
  — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• Netanyahu and his far-right allies say the changes are needed to curb the powers of unelected judges.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• His tour of the unelected ranges further than a lot of Americans might think.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• The law passed in July was the first part of the government’s plan to curb the authority of unelected judges.
  — Samy Magdy, Twin Cities, 1 Jan. 2024
• Netanyahu’s allies say the plan is needed to rein in the power of unelected judges.
  — Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• Checks on its power come from the government of the day and Israel's Supreme Court – the 15 unelected justices.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• Netanyahu and his allies say the country's unelected judges have too much power and need to be reined in.
  — Josef Federman, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
• Projections that don’t come to pass are one more stick to use to beat central banks and the unelected technocrats who run them.
  — Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
• Iran's critics are quick to point out the country's elections are not free or fair, and the unelected supreme leader holds the most power.
  — Peter Kenyon, NPR, 27 June 2024
• Some inside the country itself used the event to call for reforms or even replacement of the unelected head of state.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2022
• The bill would form a court system of unelected officials.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2023
• His wife, an unelected official, does not get a salary.
  — Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
• The salaries of those who hold top unelected leadership positions in the city would also rise.
  — Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• Also here: the heads of a good chunk of the rest of the former Soviet Union and the unelected rulers of several energy-rich Gulf Arab states.
  — Adam Schreck, ajc, 4 Feb. 2022
• However, some felt that’s too long to have an unelected mayor leading the city.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2020
• This morning, six unelected judges on the Supreme Court struck a fatal blow against Our Democracy™.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 30 June 2022
• Congress should not have turned this much discretion over to an unelected board.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 20 Sep. 2019
• Or the coterie of unelected legislators-for-life better known as the Supreme Court?
  — John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 20 Nov. 2020
• He was named to the post by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who took power less than a year ago at the head of an unelected government.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
• But the record of these unelected overseers is dubious.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• Italy could wind up with an unelected unity government — or new elections that bring the far right to power.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• The alternative should not be a tyranny of unelected judges, right?
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 5 June 2024
• Trump’s fans are scared, too—but of the elites, who are seen as unelected autocrats limiting their freedom.
  — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• The ruling makes clear that the voters in each state — not unelected judges — decide who is elected president.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• As a practical matter, there is little the unelected House of Lords can do to block it since, by convention, the Commons can overturn a vote by the Lords.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
• The court should be expanded to blunt its conservatives and at the same time have its powers restrained so that unelected, unaccountable judges (on the right and left) aren’t the most powerful people in the country.
  — Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024