Sentence examples for expense of votes from inspiring English sources

But Baykal's single-mindedness came at the expense of votes.

Mr Naidu did not want to risk a paralysing strike in the approach to the election, and settled for a diluted version of computerisation.To add to his problems, his alliance with Atal Behari Vajpayee's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is a double-edged weapon: it will gain him Hindu-nationalist votes but at the expense of the Muslim vote.

(Councilman William Davis even flew back to Vernon from a vacation in Italy — at taxpayer expense — to vote in favor of the ordinance).

Now, she's looking to Iowa – at the expense of other early voting states – to get back on track.

Trump is actively courting the "old, angry white person vote" at the expense of the "everyone else" vote, when it is "everyone else" that is doing most of the work in positively shaping America.

National's strong showing came at the expense of smaller parties, whose vote-share halved.

First, the commission concentrates on race at the expense of education levels and voting experience.

After a "Yes" vote, negotiations with the UK and Europe would be long and sour, dominating Scottish policy for years to come, at the expense of issues that matter.Please, vote no.

It probably is the case that the earlier reforms focused too much on the affluent city-dwellers at the expense of the rural poor who voted the BJP out of office last year so a period of consolidation may be no bad thing.

The startling collapse of the Liberal Democrats, largely at the expense of a surging UKIP vote, also helped to stir up an otherwise predictable election night.

Therefore, our votes had to be sacrificed, at the expense of exercising our right to vote freely.