Sentence examples for critics balloting from inspiring English sources

Also on Monday, the Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" won a decisive first-round victory in the critics' balloting.

Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" finished 11th in the critics' balloting, but the other two nominees--Chicago's "Hard Habit to Break" and Huey Lewis & the News' "The Heart of Rock & Roll --didn't make the top 25.

Sure enough, when I received my Chgo Film Critics Assoc ballot, Olivia Williams wasn't even offered as a candidate for Best Supporting Actress!!! Oy!!!

The film also did not show well with major critics groups, in part because many voters had simply not seen it before balloting.

Critics say a ballot measure Mr. Brown wrote that would allow him to appoint three new members to the seven-member elected school board is a power grab.

Critics of the ballot measure seized on the confusion over the Oscar winner's endorsement.

Critics of the ballot measure worried that it would grind development to a halt, hurting the local economy.

Critics of the ballot measure say it could grind development to a halt, hurting the local economy.

Increasingly, critics say, the informal balloting has proved a meaningless and costly diversion of time and money.

In practice, these provisional ballots are often just used as "placebo ballots," as critics dub them, with states given wide leeway in how they choose to count them.

Eventually, after multiple ballots, the critics settled on "American Splendor" for the top honor.