Sentence examples for ballot worked from inspiring English sources

Tokyo Sexwale, a South African businessman who withdrew as a candidate just before the first ballot, worked as an advocate for Mr. Infantino, too, persuading an African delegate to switch.

Because of the way the ballot worked this year – open for a set amount of time, rather than until all of the lottery places were filled – there is even less chance than the usual one-in-seven of getting a place.

As a Democratic campaign song heard in Arkansas in 1892 put it: The Australian ballot works like a charm, It makes them think and scratch, And when a Negro gets a ballot He has certainly got his match.

I understand that a ballot works well for those who plan their lives six months in advance, but surely even the disorganised among us deserves the chance to be turned down by a surly maître d' on the end of the phone, who is practically sneering at the fact that one thought it vaguely possible to snare a table for two on a Saturday night only three weeks in advance?

All of which makes Mr. Weir, who does his ballot work with a $15 iron from a local pharmacy, sound a little wary.

Last, the provisional ballot has worked in ways we had not imagined.

Salmond had told him that having both independence and devo max on the ballot actually worked in favour of independence.

This time we tried making black smoke by burning Dan Brown novels with the ballots, which worked admirably.

The quiz, produced in association with think-tank Demos and party-neutral movement Bite the Ballot, will work best for voters in England as it only looks at UK-wide parties.

Having both Raisi and Ahmadinejad on the ballot may work in Rouhani's favor, as they are likely to split the conservative vote.

Ballot by ballot, the three board members worked through envelopes of disputed ballots, holding the ballots up to the light.