Sentence examples for for the third vote from inspiring English sources

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.

Two hundred MPs are needed to back a candidate in the first or second vote, and 180 for the third vote.

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

Once there, they apparently did not hear the bell for the second vote.

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

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

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

QUESTION FROM ROB STENGEL: What about some form of staggered filibuster, wherein Senators could need 60 votes for the first vote on cloture, 57 votes the next time, 54 the next, etc? HENDRIK HERTZBERG: Good idea.

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.

They had made it for the first vote, they were in a room in the House of Commons where they didn't hear the division bell.

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.