Sentence examples for a final ballot from inspiring English sources

Roughly 100 days before voting in an elimination round April 22, and then in a final ballot on May 6, the French presidential election campaign so far involves back and forth on possible variations in French comfort — tinkering with, adjusting and applying new coats of paint to familiar and nonthreatening aspects of national life.

In a final ballot fraught with racial and political symbolism, Mr. Steele faced as his only remaining opponent Katon Dawson, the chairman of the South Carolina party, who had been criticized for belonging to a whites-only country club, a membership he resigned before this election began.

LOS ANGELES — Breaking with a practice that had narrowed Oscar voting in certain categories to those who had seen films on the big screen, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday said it would provide members with DVD versions of nominees in the best foreign film and best documentary short categories, while allowing all voters to cast a final ballot in those races.

Under such a policy, excluding ballots from a final vote count would make it more difficult to declare a winner, providing states with an incentive to devise ballots and counting procedures to guarantee that as many ballots as possible will count.

So the opposition parties insisted on a secret, final ballot and mostly left the Chamber.

In a fourth and final ballot, he lost to his younger brother, by a margin of roughly 51 percent to 49 percent.

His New Democracy party's candidate for president, Stavros Dimas, fell 12 votes short of the required three-fifths majority in a third and final ballot by Greece's 300 MPs.

Whether the Socialists will succeed in their aim to win a clean sweep of the mainland's regions will not be known until after a second and final ballot next Sunday, when parties that obtained at least 10 percent in the first round will face off individually or in coalitions.

Toronto mayor Rob Ford withdrew from his re-election race on Friday, only half an hour before a deadline to set the final ballot.

William Hague's victory in the Conservative leadership election by 92 votes to 70 has left the Tory party as divided over policy as it is racked with personal feuds.After seven weeks of campaigning, Mr Hague achieved a victory on the third and final ballot despite, indeed apparently because of, an extraordinary last-minute pact between his two chief rivals designed to wreck his chances.

The Academy annually advises its members, in a letter that comes with the final ballot, to refrain from discussing their votes with others.