Sentence examples for an initial ballot of from inspiring English sources

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Though she defeated Heseltine in an initial ballot of Conservative M.P.s, her margin of victory wasn't large enough to avoid a second ballot.

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Odinga successfully challenged the outcome of an initial ballot in August, which he had lost, in the same court.

125 127 This decision was probably the most heavily debated one: an initial ballot revealed a 94% majority for deleting the old recommendation No 14; subsequently, after thorough discussions, a re-voting process was solicited, but only 33% of the members voted for re-inclusion of old recommendation No 14.

"If you look back at how we've done this, it's becoming clearer and clearer just how clever and well constructed the initial ballot was as a way of distributing tickets in an orderly and fair fashion.

In the May 25 balloting at the 2008 Libertarian National Convention in Denver, Gravel finished fourth out of eight candidates on the initial ballot, with 71 votes out of a total 618; he trailed former Congressman and eventual winner Bob Barr, author Mary Ruwart, and businessman Wayne Allyn Root.

Mr. Macri finished first in an initial round of balloting last month, winning 37percentt of the vote, and now, in the runoff vote scheduled for Sunday, polls show the race too close to call.

On the initial ballot count he was in fifth place of twenty candidates, but after the redistribution of votes in accordance with the single transferable vote system in use in Calgary at the time, he fell to sixth place, and was not elected until the eighteenth and final count.

Another 150,000 people, who had been unsuccessful in the initial ballot, ordered tickets in an earlier second-round phase.

Lord Coe, chairman of the London 2012 organising committee, said the complex sales process was designed to honour a promise to the 1.2 million people who missed out in the initial ballot last spring.

The move comes as Unite prepares to reballot members at Hoyer, which accounts for a quarter of its 2,000 driver members, after the fuel distributor raised legal concerns over the initial ballot.

After the initial ballot, Kasich can pull in newly freed delegates to compete for a nomination.

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