Sentence examples for demand for a vote from inspiring English sources
Alex Salmond has again challenged other party leaders to support a referendum on independence after renewing his demand for a vote next year on Scotland's future.
Mr. Cameron favors an early vote; Mr. Salmond, apparently eager for time to build support for a breakaway, has held to his demand for a vote in 2014, with the possibility of independence by 2016.
The collective demand for a vote on measures to expand background checks and block gun purchases by individuals on the FBI's terror watchlist had made little headway during conventional business.
The appointment of the European Commission president has previously been by consensus but Mr Cameron opposed the choice and his demand for a vote was granted.
UKIP's recent success means the public demand for a vote on whether Britain stays in or leaves the EU would be so strong, it would be virtually impossible for any government to resist, they say.
As the legislators grabbed the spotlight with a demand for a vote in their chamber, Senator Susan Collins of Maine and a bipartisan group of backers were more quietly engaged in the uphill task of finding the votes to pass her bill barring some terror suspects from buying guns.
The force will now have to stay there until at least the end of the year, when the UN may take over.Protest voteSeveral hundred thousand supporters of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the defeated candidate in Mexico's presidential election, took part in a rally in Mexico City to support his demand for a vote-by-vote recount.
No bill means no $80 billion stimulus and therefore a half-point drop in G.D.P. 4. Campaign reform is dead this year, and there is little public demand for a vote-counting bill, despite the early hoo-hah. 5. Fast-track trade promotion will be decided next week, with Bush pushing hard to get 40 House Democrats to buck organized labor and Charlie Rangel.
Some disgruntled Liberal Democrats said Mr. Clegg was courting rebellion in the party by pushing ahead with the Conservatives, particularly as they had balked at the Liberal Democrats' demand for a voting system reform that would give smaller parties a fairer share of seats in future elections.
They added that they heard no demands for a vote on the owners' proposal.
Within a few days, Mr. Kaczynski agreed to a plan for adopting the euro by 2012, and quietly dropped demands for a vote.
