Sentence examples for favorable vote from inspiring English sources

The moment the chairman of the 36th convention announces the favorable vote, the lid is off.

The favorable vote on this represented a vindication of the years of work done by Cardinal Bea & his associates.

I'm confident they we will have a vote on Thursday and that it will be a favorable vote".

He conceded that there were prospective ethical perils, given the illegality of a candidate's offering such lures specifically in return for a favorable vote.

Even in the House, where members faced re-election every other year and thus largely opposed such measures, we believed a favorable vote was inevitable.

These frustrations will most likely lead to a favorable vote in November despite the opposition's spending millions of our health care premium dollars to try to defeat the initiative.

But he will have the advantage of favorable voting rules.

Wall Street's support from the House extends beyond favorable votes.

More Turkish lawmakers supported the measure than opposed it, but the resolution failed because the total number of "no" votes and abstentions exceeded the number of favorable votes.

He said the village had no problem garnering favorable votes for projects that some people might expect part-time residents to oppose for their effect on taxes.

The group is also proposing to incorporate favorable votes on military and infrastructure spending into its widely cited Congressional voting scorecard, "the 'gold standard' for elected officials," according to the proposal, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times.