Sentence examples for breaking votes from inspiring English sources

It is somewhat less statistically rigorous than DW-Nominate's system, but it does have the advantage of breaking votes down into three categories: those on economic, social and foreign policy.

The mayor is really only responsible for casting a tie breaking vote and assigning counselors to boards.

Britain is not like that: the north-south divide is in large part inflated and illusory – to a great extent, down to our broken voting system.

The announcement of the commission on voting puts flesh on the promise Obama made in his second inaugural speech last month to fix America's broken voting system.

If Mr. Bush declines, then he will have to answer in the future to an electorate whose president refused to reform an obviously broken voting system.

Some voters have said that blacks and others in Florida were deprived of their right to vote through faulty purges of voting rolls, broken voting machines and other problems.

Still, Facebook gave some hope to users who wished for some kind of site governance compromise between the broken voting system that was in place and its elimination entirely.

Set your goal at 50 plus Vice President Biden's tie breaking vote.

I have a problem with her breaking tie votes in the Senate".

With a 50-50 Senate, Mr. Cheney will cast any tie-breaking votes.

Senator Stephen M. Saland, a Hudson Valley Republican who is seen as one of the most likely tie-breaking votes, is one of the lead negotiators for the Senate Republicans over the marriage issue.