Councils should be answerable to the people who elect them.

委员会应对选出他们的那些人作出交代。

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Increasing numbers of people elect to work from home nowadays.

现在越来越多的人选择在家上班。

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The people of the Philippines have voted to elect a new president.

菲律宾人民已经投票选举出一位新总统。

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Aides to President-elect Barack Obama have been negotiating with Congress on a 2-year recovery plan for the world's largest economy.

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On January 4th, the president-elect left his house in Chicago to join his family in Washington and prepare to take office.

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President-elect Obama has chosen the chief executive officer of the Chicago schools, Arne Duncan, to become his education secretary.

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And although he has said that he will work to elect - to keep Republican retention of the New York State Senate.

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Dr. AL-HASANI: They boycotted the last election or for other reasons they couldn't elect--go to election, so they didn't have a voice in the National Assembly.

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Our state continues to elect - we have two state - two U.S. senators who are Democrats, most of our locally elected officials, all of our - the majority of our state legislature are Democrats, and yet Huckabee did manage to get things accomplished with them when they found common ground on issues.

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