Sentence examples for ballot power from inspiring English sources

Those cases forced states to redraw districts that had different size populations — and as a result gave some voters (in districts with fewer people) more ballot power than others.

Ballot power Yes, Hosgeldiniz is the word Masterly inactivity ReprintsYusuf admits furtively that, unbeknown to the local authorities, his sister, who came to Germany well before he did, has managed to hang on to her Turkish passport as well as to acquire a German one.

Zarlenga says we have to use our ballot power and "keep an eye on them" to make sure they stay within their mandate to control inflation, but if its constituents' own pet projects are those being funded by New Money, who will vote against that?

With hundreds of precincts left to count in the Delta, which tends to vote Democratic, the race looked to be the closest for a Mississippi Senate seat since 2008, when Barack Obama's presence on the top of the ballot powered a surge in African American voters.

Fellow Londoners similarly at sea over how to wield their massive ballot box power might like to join me in my search for lighthouses.

In an effort to seize the initiative, the UK government would agree to give Holyrood the legal and constitutional authority to stage the ballot – a power it did not then have.

But he again held out an olive branch to Lib Dems, a "third option" on the ballot paper: more power to Holyrood.

The first real test of Mr. Gore's ability to transfer ballot-booth power -- particularly among African-Americans and in the South -- will arrive after Iowa and New Hampshire in the primary contests of early February.

Down the stretch against the Atlanta Hawks, it wasn't the future first-ballot Hall of Fame power forward hoisting shots — it was Wiggins and Towns, who combined to score 12 of the team's final 14 points over the last 5 minutes 55 seconds of the game.

To suggest that a ballot box might share power with Whitehall's gilded ones is still treasonable in Westminster circles.

All that talk of upholding law and order during the miners strike and of the importance of the ballot over unaccountable power looks a little thin in the light of what we now know about police conduct during the strike.