Sentence examples for contrary votes from inspiring English sources

In most races it attracts a few percent of contrary votes.

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor to President Thomas S. Monson, noted the contrary votes each time they were cast by replying, "The vote has been noted".

What we have witnessed so far is surrender in stages - a chronic confluence of conformity and undue party loyalty, with brave talk from caucus members habitually followed by contrary votes on the floor of the House of Representatives.

What to make of his seemingly contrary vote in this case?

Over Chris Landau's strong objection (according to former Supreme Court clerks) — and in spite of Scalia's vote to the contrary — Thomas voted to reverse the conviction of a man who had been charged with receiving child pornography through the mail, on the ground that he had been entrapped.

On the contrary: I voted for him because I was reasonably confident that if elected he'd prove so divisive the party would end up splitting.

The Organisation of American States (OAS) is set to recommend that the incumbent government's candidate, Jude Celestin, be dropped from the run-off because it found that a rival, Michel Martelly, received more votes, contrary to the preliminary results announced in December.

He added that other delegates had voted contrary to expectations after a "frenzy of bartering for votes".

After last night's U-turn by David Cameron - he announced that tonight's vote, contrary to what was originally planned, will specifically not authorise military action (because there will be a second Commons vote on that, after the United Nations has been fully consulted) - it looked as though this afternoon might be a bit of an anti-climax.

He contends Mr. Toomey is too rigidly ideological to win the general election, having voted contrary to the state's Republican Congressional delegation 76 times in five years.

In his case, the judges ruled that the jury had voted contrary to the evidence, according to a statement from the state judiciary.