Sentence examples for defining vote from inspiring English sources

"For some of our members Anwar will be a great vote for them, a defining vote to show that Hastert and DeLay aren't pushing you around".

"A lot of Democrat members got burnt on that vote," warned Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, who called the climate change measure the defining vote of this, the 111th, Congress.

In a Congress likely to consider a health care overhaul, new ways to govern the financial sector and immigration changes after already approving a $787 billion economic stimulus, there is serious competition for the title of defining vote.

Are you saying here that their interpretation was so far unreasonable in defining legal vote as not to be a judicial act entitled, in effect, to the presumption of reasonable interpretation under Article II? MR. OLSON.

This view is not compatible with defining the voting power of a player to be proportional to the number of votes he casts, because votes per se may have little or no bearing on the choice of outcomes.

Poland and Spain are now relatively isolated, because the Nice system has been jettisoned in favor of an arrangement known as the double majority, which seeks to assure the rights of smaller states by defining a voting majority as at least half of the member states representing at least 60percentt of the total population.

While the elections themselves, in which as many as 5.4 million people are expected to vote, have no constitutional power to determine autonomy, the broad alliance of the left and right wing parties that favour a breakaway has defined the vote as a de facto ballot on secession.

But that means that the court, apparently, cannot define "legal vote".

In Eq. 5, we define the vote (V_{i}) as a function of the class (c_{i}).

The French President, Francois Hollande, today tried to define the vote as about whether to stay in the euro.

A monitor in Miami-Dade County testified at trial that he observed that three members of the county canvassing board applied different standards in defining a legal vote.