101.   Parliament, the Knesset, approved the first reading of the bill that would allow any citizen to run for the top elected office.

102.   Parliament, the Knesset, on Monday approved the first reading of the bill that would allow any citizen to run for the top elected office.

103.   An earlier version would have barred former secret police members from holding elected office, but Senate commissions eliminated the restriction.

104.   But Banharn steered clear of charges leveled Wednesday that he is not a native-born Thai and therefore ineligible to hold national elected office.

105.   Bush was making his first bid for elected office -- for a House seat.

106.   But it has continued to call for some Latvian legislation to be changed, especially a law requiring that all candidates for elected office be able to speak Latvian.

107.   But officials of the leading human rights oversight group said a language requirement for candidates running for elected office had been its last major point of disagreement.

108.   But while Putin, who has never before held an elected office, is popular, his aims remain unclear.

109.   But the appeals court reduced the punishment from a two-year ban on voting or running for or holding elected office to one year.

110.   Far-right parties traditionally have had less support in Britain than in many other Western European countries and have not won elected office in almost a decade.