Sentence examples for delayed votes from inspiring English sources

As Bearman makes clear, he does not like feminists and believes that the suffragettes were lawless terrorists who delayed votes for women.

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats delayed votes for Trump's nominees to head departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury by not showing up for the vote.

Lawmakers rejected President René Préval's first two nominees to replace the prime minister and repeatedly delayed votes on Ms. Pierre-Louis as they jockeyed for party position in the next cabinet.

He also delayed votes on the Access to Capital for Job Creators Act and the Small Company Capital Formation Act, scoring $91,000 from investment banks and private equity firms, $32,450 from bank holding companies and $46,500 from self-described investors — all in the 48 hours between scheduling the vote and the vote's actually being held on the House floor.

The government said on Tuesday it would hold delayed votes in two Sunni-dominated provinces, Anbar and Nineveh, on 4 July.

The commission twice delayed votes at the last moment, in April and in June.

Stuart Elliott: Advertising [C6.] Europe Delays Vote on Patent Law European governments have delayed voting on a proposed law that would define which innovations can be patented.

Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner after a farcical and much delayed vote count.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, mindful of possible legal challenges, delayed voting on its position limits rule on multiple occasions.

As The Economist went to press early on April 4th, the nine members had delayed voting on it.

The conference's presidents have discussed allowing athletic scholarships for football, although it has delayed voting on the issue.