Sentence examples for Several votes from inspiring English sources

Several votes in Georgia swung against the RFRA there after the Georgia Convention Bureau sent a letter informing them the state would lose up to $15 million in revenue if the bill passed.

Opponents outnumbered supporters in the electronic tally by several votes.

Eat your heart out, Sherman Alexie!), Andrey Platonov (several votes), Sadegh Hedayat, Amin Maalouf, Guy de Maupassant (several votes), Mervyn Peake, Antonio Munoz Molina, among others.

But on Monday, they acknowledged that they were still short by several votes.

Matsui received several votes, but so did Giambi and other Yankees.

That development left Mr. Hastert several votes short and scrambling early on Nov. 22.

On June 30th, in the last of several votes, the package came up three votes short.

Speaking to reporters afterward, Mr. Bloomberg said he believed that the bill would pass, with several votes to spare.

They handed Speaker John A. Boehner embarrassing defeats on several votes, and forced the party to pull a trade measure.

Several voted for Gorsuch.

Several voted against her nomination to be vice-chairman in 2010.