Sentence examples for granted votes from inspiring English sources

Not all of the 10,000 American civilians (mostly whites in managerial and technical jobs and their dependents, who live within the 630 square miles of the Canal) have the right to vote in a national election, and none of them were ever granted votes at the Republican National Convention.

Others, particularly those senators who have long fought for gun control measures, believe a plodding process allows too much time for opposition to build, and prefer to fast-track measures by adding them as amendments to other bills, even blocking bills in ways that have angered Democrats, until they are granted votes on those ideas.

In 1918 the Representation of the People Act granted votes to all men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30.

But they have suffered more or less the same languishing fate as the 2009 bill that granted voting representation to D.C. in Congress.

The high court, however, ruled that the U.K.'s 2003 European Parliament Act, which granted voting rights to all Commonwealth citizens, lawfully extended the franchise to Gibraltarians.

Justice John Paul Stevens, whose liberal vote is now almost taken for granted, voted with the anti-affirmative-action bloc in the 1978 Bakke case.

With regards external voting, Mali has granted voting rights to its citizens living abroad since 1991.

Are you going to become a think tank?" The IMF is funded by member countries that are granted voting rights that in theory correspond to their size in the world economy.

In the last decade, external voting has gained growing attention among scholars, in particular within transnational studies, as the number of countries that have granted voting rights to their citizens abroad soared from 31 in 1991 to about 120 in 2010 (Lafleur, 2013).

Orbán relies on strong support in rural areas and on the votes of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring countries, whom he granted voting rights following his election win in 2010.

But Forrest's liberalism, expressed also by granting votes to women late in the 19th century, grated on the young democrats of the gold-mining communities.