Sentence examples for a modest vote of from inspiring English sources

It's a modest vote of confidence from a cohort that may have experienced far worse.

Universal also agreed to buy warrants for the rights to buy about 5percentt of MP3.com's shares, a modest vote of confidence in the company's future.

The movement, with its focus on economic liberty and small government, sometimes seemed like a continuation of Paul's campaign for the Republican nomination, during which he won a great deal of attention and a modest number of votes.

But with Miami-Dade County giving no indication of a reversal, the Democrats' hopes turned toward Palm Beach County, where officials counting the votes by hand took the day off today for the holiday but plan to resume on Friday, and to Broward County, where the hand recount continued today and Mr. Gore gained a modest number of votes.

That is, when there are several people on the ballot, one of them can scoop all the delegates with only a modest plurality of the vote.

Even if each of them gets only a modest percentage of the vote, the total will eat deeply into the front-runners' support.

The Democratic Left, a moderate leftwing party that won a modest 6.25% of the vote, is seen as a possible third partner for a pro-European coalition of New Democracy and PASOK.

In a straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference on January 22nd, Mr Keyes came second to George Bush for the presidency (albeit by a modest 8% of the vote to a thumping 79%) and second to Elizabeth Dole for the vice-presidency.

The government game appeared to be: let him run and lose, maybe with a modest share of the vote, so he will no longer look like a rising political star, then celebrate the incumbent's victory in a fair and competitive election, and only then, with Navalny diminished, have him sentenced and jailed.

Reports from the northern province of Dohuk that an Islamist office has been attacked by a mob and four campaigners killed suggest that the election there may turn nasty.Some American and western officials in Baghdad hope that Mr Allawi can stage a comeback, even with a modest share of the vote, since many Sunni politicians say that they would back him as prime minister.

During the period of domination by the (Jeffersonian) Democratic-Republican Party, King served once more in the Senate (1813 25) but received only a modest proportion of electoral votes for the nation's highest offices on three different occasions.