officeholder

How To Use officeholder In A Sentence

• Nevertheless, incumbent officeholders, candidates, and aspirants are pragmatic to a fault, and their main concern is with winning elections.
• One can perceive corruption in the act of an officeholder only against a background of a "correct" pattern of behavior, a background which must exist in the beliefs of the perceiver. The Cause of Corruption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• Any further indictments, particularly of key officeholders, on the eve of the session or while lawmakers are in Austin could turn the session on its ear.
• The fact is the teachers don't know, the administrators don't know, and, too often, the politicians and the officeholders have no clue.
• His passivity was sadly typical of Democratic officeholders, who, confronted with obvious union corruption, too often refuse to act for fear of alienating organized labor.
• Cast enough doubt on enough results and the legitimacy of every elected officeholder dissolves like the calcareous shells of so much phytoplankton doused in nitric and sulfuric acid.
• They removed all restrictions from the _Lehrfreiheit_, or professional freedom of instruction, while at the same time they preserved the right of the state to control indirectly the quality of university instruction by means of state-examinations for pastors, teachers, lawyers, physicians and officeholders. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
• In 1996, the Green Party was organized in 10 states, guaranteed a ballot line in just five and had elected 40 officeholders.
• He voiced fear that the only officeholders left would be those ‘who have done nothing in their life except walk the straight and narrow, who have no creative thoughts.’
• He challenged the media to put similar public pressure on those officeholders.