Sentence examples for ballot is called from inspiring English sources

More than half of Syria's population won't have a voice when the ballot is called – sometime before June.

The ballot was called by Gillard after Rudd supporters began collecting signatures for a petition to call a special caucus meeting to consider the leadership.

But if a ballot were called, the school would "take nothing for granted".This is wise, given the widely varying results of opinion polls on the issue.

The strike ballot was called after the corporation made a journalist at the BBC World Service take compulsory redundancy in June, a move which the NUJ called a "provocative act".

A petition drive to place an anti-affirmative action measure on the statewide ballot was called off today by the man who started similar campaigns in California and Washington.

To prove that point, whose irony often eludes Californians, voters passed still more initiatives to restore the school spending whose tax financing they had cut.The main such measure, on the 1988 ballot, was called Proposition 98.

One ballot was called "proportional representation". On that one, they voted for a party — and then legislative seats were divvied up among the parties to match the proportion of the vote each party won.

The snap ballot was called by Kiev's interim leaders who took power after Yanukovych fled in the bloody climax of months of protests sparked by his rejection of a historic EU alliance.

From the 37,000 junior doctors who took part in last year's ballot, 99.4 per cent voted 'yes' to the question: 'Are you prepared to take industrial action short of a strike?' The ballot was called after junior doctors' leaders objected to the prospect of a new contract in which health secretary Jeremy Hunt attempted to redefine what constituted anti-social hours for doctors.

"It is on this basis that, as vice-chancellor of Oxford, I shall continue to work unstintingly as the servant of a university with a great past and a great future". The postal ballot was called after nearly 200 members of congregation requested it, although university rules for a postal ballot say one can take place if at least 50 members of congregation want one.

Another ballot was called and Mr Rudd won.