Sentence examples for a mere vote from inspiring English sources

Others point out that, in any event, a mere vote in parliament could lift Mr Berezovsky's immunity.

We remainers believed that it was the actual leaving, not a mere vote to leave, that would bring economic havoc.

But by confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up, and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.

And, in one of the scariest passages for a mere voting citizen to read, her huge willingness to swing the doors of governance open to the unaccountable, unelected private sector, following the model of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Of those shows that received votes, Love Letters was the lowest vote getter, with a mere two votes.

A machine count and recount of the votes (along with a sprinkling of manual recounting) produced at the initial deadline for certifying the vote last Tuesday a mere 300-vote margin between the candidates.

There was no serious examination of the reasons why voters were turning away from the parties of government and flocking to the FN not just as a mere protest vote, but as a political alternative.

A recount originally proclaimed Simonds the winner by a mere one vote.

As Californians know from recent experience with Proposition 8 in 2008, our constitution can be amended by a mere majority vote.

The last referendum, in 1995, was narrowly voted down by a mere 50,000 votes.

Moreover, 47% of the oldest category of people voted for the Conservatives, with only 23% supporting Labour – as against 43% of younger voters backing Labour (and 8% voting Green), with a mere 27% voting Tory.