Sentence examples for a crushing vote from inspiring English sources

A crushing vote in Venezuela.

Faced with a choice between a popular man who mismanaged government and an unpopular woman who has steered legislation through a parliament she does not control, Labor parliamentarians held their nerve.The crushing vote has damaged, probably fatally, the political ambitions of the man who in 2007 led Labor to victory, ending 11 years of conservative Liberal-National coalition government.

Clegg appeared arrogant by failing even to mention Tuesday's crushing vote against his desire to compromise with the Conservatives on secret courts.

Spain's Socialist government was defeated in a crushing landslide vote a week ago, leaving the party with its fewest members of Parliament since democratic elections were introduced in 1977.

The survey – the first since Hollande, 57, was nominated as the Socialists' official candidate – gave him a crushing 62% of votes against just 38% for the incumbent in the final round of a two-round vote.

Republicans are using fake voter fraud to crush voting rights.

In the end, it didn't matter what the bishops did, because by a crushing majority (390 votes to 148), the Lords rejected the effort to derail the proposal.

On August 10th he made it nine, winning Turkey's first direct election to the presidency, with a crushing 52% of the vote.

Chirac won the run-off with a crushing 82.2 per cent of the vote, but this experience so shocked the French that immediately afterwards the Front National began to lose support.

A Democrat can deliver Trump a crushing blow with their vote, because if their party takes back one or both houses of Congress, the effect will be seismic.

A crushing defeat in the vote on Dec. 11 could force Mrs. May to abandon her deal, break up her government or even leave office.