Sentence examples for gathering to vote from inspiring English sources

The companies said yesterday that their boards had called off the deal as American Skiing's shareholders were gathering to vote on it.

On Thursday, Catalonia's interior minister said the region's own Mossos d'Esquadra police force will act to protect public safety, but it would be impossible to stop thousands from gathering to vote.

In the Roman system of direct democracy, two primary types of gatherings were used to vote on legislative, electoral, and judicial matters.

The shooting didn't prevent thousands of students and demonstrators from gathering at the university to vote on a list of demands and await Reich's Mario Savio Lecture, named for the political activist and leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of the 1960s.

The hosts of New York's many Election Night gatherings are urging guests to vote early and drink often so they can make merry as the results -- and libations -- pour in.

At the Anti-Shia Alliance gathering, Cholil encouraged the crowd to vote against Jokowi over rumors that he may appoint PDI-P cadre and prominent Shiite figure Jalaluddin Rakhmat as religious affairs minister.

Council members can bypass signature gathering and vote to include an issue on the ballot.

The Guardian was told that Labour MPs were still being contacted yesterday to be asked whether they would nominate the chancellor for leader, in a move to stop the left wingers Mr McDonnell or Michael Meacher gathering enough votes to stand, as well as to block a desperate last minute bid by a Blairite.

The timing of the conclave, the closed gathering when voting for the next pope will take place, was still not set, but definitely on the cardinals' minds.

My denomination, the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, at its national gathering this year voted against marriage equality.

ORPHEUS ($39.95 BluRay or $29.95 DVD; Criterion) My movie friends in the IRAs (an annual gathering that votes on the best films of the year) are preparing for their once a decade vote on the best films of all time.