Sentence examples for blocking votes in the from inspiring English sources

Israel in turn won blocking votes in the UN.

Efforts to suppress and block votes in battleground states generated more than a backlash.

The Republican Party "cheats" by trying to block voting in minority communities.

Democrats have responded in kind, blocking votes on the House-passed bill containing the subsidy cuts.

When Tony Blair first made this claim last year, he was swiftly reminded that there were no block votes in the college which elected him, since John Smith had pushed through a rule change forcing unions to ballot their members.

He kept his seat in the legislature after the war by running in the 1921 Alberta general election and becoming the fifth person elected in a block vote in the Calgary electoral district.

An end to business block votes in all elections.

Republicans had also succeeded in July in blocking a vote in the Senate, but Democrats held out some hope that they could sway one or two moderate Republicans by making concessions this week.

But he sees positive signs, starting with a Democratic filibuster blocking a vote in the Senate on President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to the influential United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

But her vocal supporters on the floor and in the public gallery disrupted proceedings sufficiently to block the vote in the dying minutes of the session.

The lawmaker, James E. Laney of the Texas House, was one of dozens of Texas Democrats who scurried out of the state in an unusual and successful ploy to block a vote in the Legislature on a Republican redistricting plan.