Sentence examples for influence votes from inspiring English sources

Congressional bullies pressed their advantage, using threats and violence to steer debate, silence opposition and influence votes.

Once elected, he demanded strict ethical standards for Congress, insisting that members must not solicit or take favors from people trying to influence votes.

The village chief and the local schoolmaster can often influence votes without visibly campaigning: a hint of new buildings or wells can make up wavering minds.Golkar also has more than just human resources at its disposal.

In the legislative and executive offices, it is accepted that special-interest lobbying and campaign spending can influence votes; but that is anathema to our most basic notions of fair judging.

"As long as this issue of immigration is a political ping-pong that each side uses to win election and influence votes," he added, "I'm telling you it won't get solved".

Among the most prominent who worked to influence votes on the debit card measure were Richard A. Gephardt, the former House majority leader and a Democrat, who represented Visa.

For his part, Mr. Burnett, in a sworn declaration filed in court, denied doing anything to influence voting.

Bidding countries, officials and national football associations are strictly forbidden from even the "beginning of a collaboration" to influence voting.

For example, whether the social network could influence voting patterns by hiding or showing certain stories from its users' news feeds.

The brouhaha over the intellectual property to the character has come, for The Hurt Locker team, mercifully too late to influence voting in the Oscars.

The hearing earlier heard that the letter was not designed to influence voting in the referendum.