elected politician

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politician
noun[C]
uk
/ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌpɑː.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/
a member of a government or ...
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He is not anelectedpoliticianwho does a wee bit here and a wee bit there about higher education.
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But if he speaks to any member of the political cast—anyelectedpolitician—he will find that that feeling is absent; they have no such reservations.
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That is a serious situation which no democraticallyelectedpoliticianhas the right to dismiss or ignore.
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Nothing can weigh more heavily on a democraticallyelectedpoliticianthan the decision to go to war.
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That alone should warn people of the dangers of giving one set of democratically elected politicians the right to remove another democraticallyelectedpolitician.
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The skills that they will most need are those of theelectedpoliticianand the administrator rather than those of the lawyer.
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The ratio of lobbyists employed by the healthcare industry, compared with everyelectedpolitician, was six to one, according to one account.
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He was more of a professional diplomat than anelectedpolitician, and he held an elitist approach to government.
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Scavenius was a diplomat, not anelectedpolitician, and had an elitist approach to government.
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The general issue is thus, how much flexibility you want for your elected politicians representing the voting population at any given point in time.
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It did not have a significantly larger number of elected politicians in office, and the party's popularity among the electorate was no greater.
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If civil servants are protected under the law, there is a greater possibility that they will resist complying with elected politicians' policy preferences.
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Thus, the more heterogeneous are the preferences of elected politicians, the more likely gridlock is to occur.
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The committee members strongly felt that they were not in the position to make any suggestions regarding the political arrangements, which they considered to be the responsibility of elected politicians.
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The government would often dissolve assemblies, arrest elected politicians and impose president's rule.
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Elected politicians would be exempt and temporary opt-out provisions have been proposed for universities and hospitals.
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Elected politicians, he argued, are required to represent diverse communities.
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This effectively operated as a network of elected politicians.
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Conservatives argued that elected politicians should be trusted instead.
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