Sentence examples for in a single vote from inspiring English sources

The idea is to package the changes and the underlying bill together in a way that amounts to an amended bill in a single vote.

It means hunting with dogs could once again be made legal by MPs nodding it through Parliament in a single vote.

It would mean dozens of MPs abandoning any pretence of following their party leaders, not just in a single vote but over weeks.

The rule would have required a separate vote on each of 14 amendments the sponsors had packaged to win over fence-sitters, rather than considering them all in a single vote.

In a speech to a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention here, Mr. McCain criticized what he called Mr. Obama's "shifting positions" on the troop reinforcements, or surge, in Iraq, and said that when his rival voted against financing the troops in a single vote in 2007, he tried to "legislate" failure.

Consent calendar items not pulled for discussion are approved in a single vote.

Mr. Jaafari, considered by many to be an ineffectual leader, won the nomination in February by a single vote in a secret ballot among the Shiites.

IRV upholds majority rule in a single voting round by allowing voters to indicate their alternate choices in case their first choice fails to make the runoff.

There were also many who overvoted, picking two or more candidates in a single voting-choice field (for example, marking two for first choice), which invalidated their ballots.

He was defeated for a seat in the state Senate in 1846 by a single vote.

When Henry Luce graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut in 1916, he received not a single vote in the "most likely to succeed" category.