Sentence examples for a single yes from inspiring English sources

Generally there's a single yes or a couple of yeses; otherwise silence, a shaking of heads.

Since the board decides the number of nominees, and most nominate only as many as there are open seats, they'll all be elected, even with a single yes vote (which may be their own).

And consent is not a single yes before clothes come off.

The "always" and "mostly" categories were collapsed into a single "yes" category and the categories "seldom" and "never" were collapsed into "no".

By asking a single yes or no question to one of these two men, the visitor must discover the road to town.

Voters will cast a single yes or no vote on the referendum's four parts: admission as a state, its boundaries, approval of a constitution and guarantees of a representative form of government.

In 1988, General Augusto Pinochet, who had taken power in Chile in a bloody coup fifteen years earlier, scheduled a plebiscite with a single yes-or-no question: Should he continue ruling for another eight years?

The ground rules for the ballot have been depicted as a compromise: the vote will offer only a single yes-or-no question on independence, contrary to Mr. Salmond's wishes for a broader choice; and, despite Mr. Cameron's objections, the referendum will be open to voters as young as 16 — two years below the national voting age.

According to Alan Cochrane, the Scottish editor of the Daily Telegraph, Cameron revealed he was prepared to give way on issues that the UK government had opposed in public in order to force Salmond to accept a single yes-no question.

(On Thursday, the Senate voted, sixty-five thirty-threeree, to move ahead and consider giving Obama trade promotion authority, which would enable him to negotiate a trade deal in its entirety and present it to Congress for a single yes-or-no vote).

There is another conflict because seven separate issues have been combined into a single Yes-No vote on Question 2. The Charter Revision Commissioners say the Board of Elections told them this merger of issues was required for mechanical reasons in preparing the ballot so they had no choice.