1.   In our democracy, the making of public policy is usually reserved for duly elected legislative bodies.

2.   There is no elected national legislative body.

3.   They demanded new schools, supported by local taxes and managed by locally elected bodies.

4.   The transference of the principle of democratic centralism from party to state organization further weakens accountability and the role of elected bodies.

5.   The ministry thought that decentralisation of planning control to area committees of the planning authority produced better results than delegation to another elected body.

6.   An elected negotiating body was first proposed by the Ulster Unionist Party, which opposes Sinn Fein and wants to keep Northern Ireland part of Britain.

7.   A new elected body would oversee these steps.

8.   But Blair is vague when it comes to talking about the second stage of reform, turning the Lords into an elected body.

9.   China asserted that a fully elected body violated agreements between London and Beijing.