Sentence examples for definite vote from inspiring English sources

"This free trade agreement is in our national interests, yet that bill is dead unless the speaker schedules a definite vote," the president said.

Downing Street said for the first time last night that there would be a definite vote on the second resolution within three weeks.

Three of the four most conservative votes on the court were notably hostile to the federal government's arguments, and the fourth (Clarence Thomas, who almost never speaks at oral argument) is as mentioned an almost definite vote to rule the ACA's individual mandate unconstitutional.

The White House had him down as a definite censure vote, though he remained officially undecided.

As his tour started, Mr Bouchard was saying that nothing is less definite than a vote this autumn.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, missed Thursday's child tax credit vote, a definite no-no for a freshman lawmaker who faces accusations of nepotism for having been appointed to her seat by her father.

Flying Scotsman – like Ukraine, it does not take the definite article – was recently voted the world's favourite train, ahead of Thomas the Tank Engine, the Hogwarts Express and India's Rajadhani Express.

Not definitive, just definite.

In political terms, this week's vote was a definite shot at the new and unproven leadership of the United States Olympic Committee, which recently angered the I.O.C. by initiating a domestic Olympic cable network.

There was also a definite geographic component to the vote.

Disagreements between reviewers were resolved either by a third reviewer (for possible disagreements) or by the full adjudication committee (for any case involving at least one vote of "probable" or "definite").