Sentence examples for eighth ballot from inspiring English sources

In fact, Cardinal Wojtyła, archbishop of Krakow, won on the eighth ballot.

The burly Pole, elected by the College of Cardinals on the eighth ballot, in 1978, could work the aisles of the papal plane as charismatically as he cupped the cheeks of a child or blessed a leper.

He was nominated as the party's presidential candidate on the eighth ballot, by a count of 544 to 108 votes.

He refused to withdraw, but his supporters began to abandon him; by the eighth ballot, the delegates coalesced around Benjamin Harrison of Indiana and voted him the nomination.

Home on medical leave, he refused to campaign for the nomination, leaving that to political managers who secured it at the local convention in September 1862, on the eighth ballot.

The switch wounded Sherman's candidacy by showing that his own state's governor did not support him, and even though Foraker switched back to Sherman when Blaine wired reiterating that he was not a candidate, the damage was done; Harrison gained the nomination on the eighth ballot.

"Jerusalem" was triumphant on the third ballot.

"At least, not on the first ballot.

But Goldwater captured the nomination on the first ballot.

"A majority would be unbound after the first ballot.

Make it on the first ballot, or be mocked).