Sentence examples for devastating vote from inspiring English sources

In their partnership, he has not been a very worthy partner, and she plans to let him know as much in the place that hurts the most — on the House floor, with the whip count, with a devastating vote.

He could not say what needed to be said: that this was a devastating vote to which the whole of Europe had to respond if it was to hold together.

Ending a day of high political drama in Brazil, the supreme court bought President Dilma Rousseff a little time on Tuesday night to reverse a potentially devastating vote on the impeachment committee that will decide her fate.

They've tried everything quitting the front bench en masse, holding a devastating vote of no confidence, shyly suggesting alternatives but he still won't resign, and unless he resigns they'll have to face the fact that 50 to 60percentt of the membership still backs him, and he's almost certain to win any new leadership vote.

As I show in my documentary FREE FOR ALL!, Bob Ney was simultaneously taking bribes and getting drunk in the morning, while authoring the devastating Help America Vote Act, which foisted electronic voting upon us as a nation and led to widespread voter disenfranchisement through provisional ballots, over one million of which were promptly discarded in the 2004 election.

But J. Gerald Hebert, who formerly handled voting rights litigation for the Justice Department and is now in private practice, said that losing Section Five would be "devastating to protecting voting rights" because the costs of a lawsuit are so steep.

Several polls had suggested — incorrectly, as it turned out — that Liberals, who oppose separatism for Quebec, would be devastated in the vote.

Mr Burt, who oversaw policy on Syria for three years, said moderates in the Syrian opposition had been "absolutely devastated" by the vote in August and that it had boosted extremists in the ranks of rebels fighting President Bashar Assad.

Henderson insists that its post-Brexit fire sale of properties has not left investors out of pocket, in a sign that the UK commercial property market has not been devastated by the vote, as some feared.

President Clinton has said that a no vote would be devastating for United States-China relations.

While Ms. Clark wins another three-year term with little changed, voting devastated the conservative National Party.