Sentence examples for compel a vote from inspiring English sources

The case was brought by two professors at the University of San Diego Law School who argued that it was unconstitutional to compel a vote on one part of a ballot to qualify to vote on another.

Senators John McCain and Joseph I. Lieberman are planning to compel a vote on an effort to control global warming when the Senate takes up an energy bill this week.

Mr. Gephardt started the duel by announcing that he was filing a discharge petition, a procedure that can compel a vote on a measure, on what he said was a bill to "stamp out one of the most glaring, unpatriotic examples of corporate malfeasance".

Yet, even to compel a vote is requiring a hostile, historic takeover of the House.

But with limited power to compel a vote, Democrats huddled this week to chart a path forward.

Miller noted the challenge of actually getting a vote on the bill in the House this year, but he said that he was confident Democrats would peel off more Republicans in the coming months and that public pressure could compel a vote.

But the possibility of compelling a vote on Mr. Davis's fate as early as this fall has many of the Republican faithful emerging from a political funk that analysts had predicted would take years to overcome.

Fueled by petitions, the citizens' initiatives seek to bypass the traditional legislative process and compel a popular vote on a sensitive question.

In fact, because Republicans sign discharge petitions only under the greatest pressure (as on campaign finance legislation), Mr. Gephardt's effort has no chance of success in compelling a House vote on the Democratic bill.

Easily lost in the media catnip of the announcement was the question of whether Mr. Trump's support would compel a single person to vote for Mr. Romney.

Declaring an election a "referendum" will not compel a single Republican to vote for legislation that is against both the ideological and political interests of the party.