Sentence examples for free ballot from inspiring English sources

It led to Indonesia's first free ballot in four decades on June 7th, when a general legislative election was held.

And their youngsters will not be able to enter the programme's free ballot for Olympic tickets either.

Even as the Americans had shifted their position at the weekend to call for an orderly transition to democracy in Egypt, and even after the leaders of Britain, France and Germany issued a joint letter calling for elections, Mrs Ashton was reluctant to call for a free ballot.

Nathan Bedford Forrest's new Ku Klux Klan acted "by force and terror," as Grant wrote, "to deprive colored citizens of the right to bear arms and for the right to a free ballot; to suppress schools in which colored children were taught and to reduce the colored people to a condition closely akin to that of slavery".

Ever since the Conservatives returned to power — first in a coalition in 2010, then with a narrow majority in 2015 — they have promised to permit a free ballot in Parliament on fox hunting, enabling legislators to vote without any formal instruction from party managers.

Nathan Bedford Forrest's new Ku Klux Klan acted "by force and terror," as Grant wrote, "to deprive colored citizens of the right to bear arms and for the right to a free ballot; to suppress schools in which colored children were taught and to reduce the colored people to a condition closely akin to that of slavery". Chernow vindicates Grant's response.

When President Zine el-Abidine ben Ali came to power in a coup in 1987 he promised reforms, and he was elected president in 1989 in free balloting.

The elections in Serbia will come more than half a year after the first free balloting in Yugoslavia since World War II took place in the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.

By and large, they were the kinds of problems that might be expected for the first day of free balloting in a country of some 80 million -- a fact that was also reflected in the sense of collective enthusiasm that lingered much of the day.

Thanks to the cursed Communist past, Hungarian voters had decades of practice making a uniform motion of the pencil over an always uniform (that is, option-free) ballot list.

"It's the first time we have voting go to the user," Luner said, noting that viewers can already support their favorite performers through toll-free balloting by phone, texting and online voting.