Sentence examples for bare vote from inspiring English sources

"The need for accuracy must be weighed against the need for finality," the majority insisted, a bare vote ahead of the minority's riposte: "Finality must take precedence over continued judicial process".

As a group, the AT&T shareholders would also have bare voting control of the company.

Green won by a bare 20,000 votes.

One guest guessed correctly: It was George W. Bush's bare electoral-vote majority in 2000.

In the 1961 election she alone held her seat – by a bare 500 votes.

However, a year later, on June 29 , 2009 while the appeal was pending in the circuit court, the Supreme Court overruled the appeals court's decision in Ricci, by the barest 5-4 vote.

Class differences were laid bare by the vote.

The treaty ending the war with Spain and ceding the Philippine Islands to the United States was approved by the bare two-thirds vote of the Senate required by the Constitution.

It squeaked through the Senate with the bare minimum 30 votes.

The reason parallels the situation in the UK, where David Cameron returned with a majority of seats conjured from a bare plurality of votes.

In 2002, the method's vulnerabilities were laid bare in a vote-trading scandal, in which a Russian team with an error-riddled performance was given a gold medal ahead of a Canadian pair whose memorable programme was all but perfect.