Word Finder - vote

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A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities

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One occasion indicative votes were used was in 2003 when MPs were presented with seven different options on how to reform the House of Lords.

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An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot

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The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.

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An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer

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To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election

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Did you vote last month?

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To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent

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The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.

I, for one, would vote for peace.

I'm not a citizen of the county, so I can't vote for you.

It's a wonder anyone would vote for him.

A'Ran won the vote by one.

That's where we're concentrating, 'cause half the young people don't vote anyhow.

The absence in the army of the Confederate sympathizers helps to explain the small vote against the formation of the new state.

The party therefore determined that they would refuse to support any person standing in the Labour interests who refused to pledge himself to vote on all occasions in such way as the majority of the party might decide to be expedient.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

You can.t vote me out.

If I lived here, I'd probably even vote for you.

I vote the Council split.

This popular vote confirmed Denver in 1881.

The legislative power is vested in a congress of two chambers - the senate, composed of 30 members (two from each province and two from the capital), elected by the provincial legislatures and by a special body of electors in the capital for a term of nine years; and the chamber of deputies, of 120 members (1906), elected for four years by direct vote of the people, one deputy for every 33,000 inhabitants.

It was a one-sided struggle, for without the consent of the congress the president could not raise any money for supplies, and congress refused to vote the budget.

Don't vote for me out of sympathy.

Then for sure I wouldn't vote for you.

Does this mean you're going to vote for me?

Someone paid you to vote for Roosevelt?

As deputy he had no vote, and he naturally took little share in the debates, but it was part of his duty to send written reports of the proceedings to his patron, since the government, with a well-grounded fear of all that might stir popular feeling, refused to allow any published reports.

But Hepburn, prior of St Andrews, having obtained the vote of the chapter, expelled him, and was himself in turn expelled by Forman, bishop of Moray, who had been nominated by the pope.

On the other hand, a two-thirds majority of each house of the legislature may submit an amendment or amendments to popular vote at the next general election, when the approval of a majority of the qualified voters is necessary for ratification.

In 1868 Denver became the capital, but feeling in the southern counties was then so strong against Denver that provision was made for a popular vote on the situation of the capital five years after Colorado should become a state.

The system has data from all their GPS records and infers that to drive across town several times for a place is a stronger vote than eating at the corner restaurant.

Ouray County doesn't have a farm vote.

In time to cast my vote!

In fact, I say we vote you out.

Two, what are we going to do when Kris chooses the Code and his oath over our unanimous vote to kill Sasha?

Either house may pass a vote of no confidence in the government, and in practice the government resigns in face of the passing of such a vote by the deputies, but not if it is passed by the Senate only.

An administrative tribunal called the cour des corn ptes subjects the accounts of the states financial agents (trsorierspayeurs, receveurs of registration fees, of customs, of indirect taxes, &c.) and of the communesi to a close investigation, and a vote of definitive settlement is finally passed by parliament.

Saxe-Meiningen has one vote in the German federal council (Bundesrat) and sends two members to the Reichstag.

No person is allowed to vote by reason of being in or attached to the army or navy.

Then he added, "Too bad you folks don't vote."

Then you'd get on the bus or subway and go to the polling place and vote.

All male citizens above twenty-one years of age have the right of suffrage, subject to a residence of one year in the state and sixty days in the county in which they offer to vote.

All laws are sanctioned and promulgated by the president, who is invested with the veto power, which can be overruled only by a two-thirds vote.

The assistant judges, the sheriff and the state's attorney are elected annually by popular vote.

Women have the right to vote in all elections relating to schools and school officers in cities, towns and graded school districts, and also the right to be elected to any local school position or to the office of township clerk.

If they are again approved by a majority of each house in the next General Assembly, they are submitted finally to a direct popular vote, a majority of the votes cast being decisive.

Cromwell hastened to the House, and at the last moment, on the bill being put to the vote, whispering to Harrison, "This is the time; Y must do it," he rose, and after alluding to the former good services of the parliament, proceeded to overwhelm the members with reproaches.

Ministers may attend the debates of either house but can only vote in that of which they are members.

Capponi resigned in October 1848, and Leopold reluctantly consented to a democratic ministry led by Guerrazzi and Montanelli, the former a very ambitious and unscrupulous man, the latter honest but fantastic. Following the Roman example, a constituent assembly was demanded to vote on union with Rome and eventually with the rest of Italy.

Sella, uncertain of the loyalty of the Right, challenged a vote on the immediate discussion of further financial reforms, and on the 23rd of June was overthrown by a coalition of the Left under Depretis with a part of the Right under Minghetti and the Tuscan Centre under Correnti.

In spite of the courage and presence of mind of Cairoli, who received the dagger thrust intended for the king, public and parliamentary indignation found expression in a vote which compelled the ministry to resign.

Depretis, who had succeeded Cairoli in December 1878, fell in July 1879, after a vote in which Cairoli and Nicotera joined the Conservative opposition.

Notwithstanding this prospective loss of revenue, parliament showed great reluctance to vote any new impost, although hardly a year previously it had sanctioned (3oth June 1879) Depretiss scheme for spending during the next eighteen years 43,200,000 in building 5000 kilometres of railway, an expenditure not wholly justified by the importance of the lines, and useful principally as a source of electoral sops for the constituents of ministerial deputies.

While excitement over Tunisia was at its height, but before the situation was irretrievably compromised to the disadvantage of Italy, Cairoli had been compelled to resign by a vote of want of confidence in the Chamber.

Even this cabinet was still-born, and a hostile vote in the Chamber on the 3oth of January 1906 brought about its fall.

A few days later the ministry, having received an adverse vote on.

At the elections for the local bodies the Catholics had already been permitted to vote, and, availing themselves of the privilege, they gained seats in many municipal councils and obtained the majority in some.

These assessors were allowed a definite vote in temporal matters but not in spiritual, and the final decision was reserved to Torquemada himself, who in 1483 was appointed the sole inquisitor-general over all the Spanish possessions.