Sentence examples for by voting in a from inspiring English sources

This week sees an expression of the magic legitimacy delivered by voting in a democracy.

This year, for example, residents of Tokushima Prefecture stunned the government by voting in a referendum to reject a large dam-building project.

In Hartlepool, the voters signalled their disaffection by voting in a man in a monkey suit, who served three terms in all before the directly elected mayoralty was abolished by referendum three years ago.

IF THE posters of the anti-UN campaign were to be believed, on March 3rd the people of Switzerland wantonly drove an axe through centuries of their country's prized neutrality by voting in a referendum to join the United Nations.

Sleepy, socially conservative Catholic Ireland is now the globe's pre-eminent example of progressive democratic social and legal change by voting in a referendum to legalise same-sex marriage.

Most of the state's 21 county committees give a preferential ballot position to the Senate candidate they endorse, whether by voting in a county convention or by fiat of the county chairman.

There are many situations where different groups make collective decisions by voting in an assembly or committee in which each group is represented by a single person.

But the final results this evening after the second round of voting in local elections will be determined by voting in just a fraction of them.

A federal grand jury indicted a Milwaukee alderman on charges of defrauding the government by voting in favor of a $200,000 grant for a corporation he started five years ago.

In 2005, the Swiss expressed their negative attitude towards genetic engineering in agriculture by voting in favor of a ban to use genetically modified (GM) crops in domestic agriculture.

By voting in favor of an academic boycott of Israel, its 18-member executive body provoked a bitter debate nationally and internationally, within higher education and beyond.