Sentence examples for a vote to set from inspiring English sources

A vote to set up an inquiry is expected at the end of the month.

As if proving that point, she recently vexed some of her colleagues on the council by missing a vote to set aside $33.5 million from the municipal budget to fund redevelopment projects, citing a scheduling conflict.

In a vote to set up foundation trusts in the English NHS, Blair's majority was cut to 35 because many English Labour MPs rebelled or failed to vote; Blair needed 67 Scottish and Welsh MPs to push the trusts through.

The American whaling commissioner said Thursday that the United States was trying to salvage some progress from an international conference on whaling by calling for a vote to set whaling quotas for indigenous peoples who depend on the animals for sustenance.

A spokesman for Leyonhjelm confirmed a vote to set up the committee had been deferred until Monday because the government had said there could only be four Senate select committees, which meant an existing one would need to be abolished to make room for the new investigation.

The United States delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Councill had called today for a vote to set aside the council's plan to establish a system of regular inspections of prisons and detention centers worldwide to check for abuses.

On the eve of a Senate vote to set a deadline for withdrawing American troops from Kosovo, a General Accounting Office report released today said that prospects for lasting peace in Kosovo, Bosnia and other parts of the Balkans remained bleak and warned of the prospect of instability and even renewed violence.

The report was issued on the eve of a Senate vote to set a deadline for withdrawing American troops.

MPs will to be asked, via a free vote, to set up a cross-party Speaker's conference under the chairmanship of the Speaker, Michael Martin, to rectify the disparity between those in the Commons and the population at large, looking at gender, race, disabilities and sexual orientation.

The next steps in the FCC's process will be a period of public consultation before a final vote to set new rules.

That measure failed by a vote of 46 to 50, but an earlier vote to set it aside permanently without a vote also failed when five Republicans joined Democrats to keep the measure alive.