Sentence examples for a decisive vote for from inspiring English sources

ACCURACY A case can certainly be made that Mr. Specter was a decisive vote for the stimulus package.

For instance, one of Mr. Kerry's new commercials boasts that he provided "a decisive vote" for President Bill Clinton's 1993 economic plan, which, it maintains, "created 20 million new jobs".

Things have not gone so smoothly in Chengguan village, in Shandong Province to the north, where a maverick candidate, Sun Xuede, was elected director in late 1999 with 85percentt support -- a decisive vote for change by villagers who said that leaders were misusing funds from ailing factories.

In response to Ms. Fields's criticism, Mr. Bloomberg's aides yesterday quickly trotted out news clips that chronicled her own effort to oust her appointed member to the old Board of Education when that appointee, Irving S. Hamer Jr., cast a decisive vote for a new board president she did not approve of.

Mr. Obama, in an emotional address at the Capitol, exhorted rank-and-file House Democrats to approve the bill, telling them they were on the edge of making history with a decisive vote scheduled for Sunday.

In a decisive vote, 341 to 263 MEPs called for three binding targets for 2030: a 40% cut in greenhouse gases, compared with 1990 levels; at least 30% of energy to come from renewable sources; and a 40% improvement in energy efficiency.

A second Greek vote next month backing parties opposed to the European Union's bailout package would be a decisive vote to leave the euro for which contingency plans have to be made now, David Cameron warned on Sunday in a dramatic raising of the stakes.

The shadow chancellor's attack came after the prime minister said that a second Greek vote next month backing parties opposed to the EU's bailout package would be a decisive vote to leave the euro, for which contingency plans had to be made.

A decisive vote to keep the UK's current system for electing MPs deals a further blow to Nick Clegg, after the Lib Dems suffered heavy election losses.

The bill passed by a single vote in the Senate, giving anybody who voted for it a claim to have provided a decisive vote.

and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C .. McCain cast a decisive vote against R-S.C .in July and is considered a key senator to watch for this latest bill.