Sentence examples for influential vote from inspiring English sources

Also the development of the Assembly of the Centuries from a military to a political body gave the wealthier plebeians an influential vote in elections and legislation.

Lonmin, the British platinum miner, has a 28percentt stake in Ashanti and also holds an influential vote, but has said it will side with Ashanti's board.

With the most influential vote, Saudi Arabia has now thrown the economic interests of other OPEC member states under the bus and is acting in a seemingly unilateral manner.

(As a resident of the District of Columbia with no voting representative in Congress at all, any state resident ends up casting a more influential vote than I do, but that's a rant for another day).

They could also be an influential voting bloc in next year's elections.

His rise in Iowa polls has been fueled by evangelical Christians, who represent an influential voting bloc.

Meanwhile, some members of the Congressional Black Caucus, an influential voting bloc, have also been unhappy with the ethics office.

The ruling, these groups argued, would hinder their ability to communicate about political matters with their members, who are often influential voting blocs in municipal elections.

But the three governments that have run Greece in the past three years have been loath to fire any of the nation's 700,000 public workers, an influential voting bloc.

By Miami, where Cuban-Americans are an influential voting bloc, Mr. Bush and his brother were using large doses of Spanish in their speeches.

They want to know if the former prosecutor's politics on criminal justice and immigration align with one of the most influential voting blocs in the Democratic Party.