Sentence examples for for the first vote from inspiring English sources

Only after that will Mr. Reid decide whether it is time to push for the first vote.

With the way thus cleared for a secret ballot, the presiding officer of the Senate, Rodney Ellis, called for the first vote about 3 10 p.m.

Poroshenko suspended the election campaign for the first vote since the 2014 Maidan Revolution, which promised a peaceful change of power.

But a line soon formed, and just after noon a cheer went up for the first vote: a "false" from Michael Smith, 18, a vacationing high school student from Palatine, Ill., who had wandered by while killing time before his hotel check-in.

As the members were preparing on Friday for the first vote on lifting the ban on alcohol sponsorship, Gwen Ifill, the host of the PBS program "Washington Week in Review," took a microphone to say: "My worry is the slippery slope.

The Conservatives (on 10% for the first vote and 13% for the second vote) and the Liberal Democrats (9% and page 11%) remain also-rans.Translated into seats in the 129-member Parliament, this implies that Labour would have 60 seats against the SNP's 41, five short of an overall majority but enough for Donald Dewar, Labour's leader in Scotland, to consider running a minority administration.

The climate meeting in Paris has attracted an unusual level of attention compared with earlier meetings, as Democrats and Republicans gear up for the first votes in the presidential primaries just over a month away.

For the fourth vote, expected Friday afternoon, a simple majority will suffice.

Among the 34 districts that pared their budgets for the second vote, 20 were successful and 14 were not.

Opponents assert that the voter rolls ballooned suspiciously for the second vote even though the population of the town stayed roughly the same.

In Athens, meanwhile, lawmakers were preparing for the third vote in less than a week on a number of "prior actions" demanded by foreign creditors.