Sirisena's calculation was that he could win over the key Sinhala voters by offering an alternative to the increasingly authoritarian and apparently dynastic rule of the Rajapaksa family while gaining the default vote of the country's ethnic and religious minorities.
But this default vote against Le Pen rather than in favour of Macron is no longer seen as enough to set up a French leader for a successful term in office – the nation did it once, for the rightwing Jacques Chirac against the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2002, and disappointment and unpopularity dogged Chirac's time in office.
For example, in some countries, institutions may be more open to activism than those in other markets, whereas in some other markets, they may tend to by default vote with management.
I will, by default, vote defensively for the most innocuous one.
There will be the believers, who have jumped on-board the Obama campaign and will continue to multiply, but there also is going to be another type of vote which is going to swing heavily to Barack Obama -- the default vote.
The default (naïve) voting threshold used to determine the output classification is simple majority rule: if more than half of the network votes are positive (k > 16.5), the compound in question is classified as a positive; otherwise, it is classified as a negative.
The motion called for the retention of the status quo in which all prisoners, except those on remand or imprisoned for contempt or default, are barred from voting.
In Jefferson County, Ala .— which filed the biggest Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy in American history this fall after its sewer-construction financing fell apart and a court threw out one of its taxes — county commissioners were voting to default on a general obligation bond payment.
At the time, India was ruled by the British Empire so power was exerted by the government in London and, by default, those who voted for them in the first place.
