Sentence examples for instance a vote from inspiring English sources

Morocco v Algeria ReprintsEven with the new districting, for instance, a vote cast in the crowded capital, Amman, carries only a quarter of the weight of one cast in the dusty provincial town of Ma'an.

For instance, a North Dakota voting law that bans P.O.

The reader reminds me, reminds us all, that, "It has even been known that someone is persuaded, for instance to cast a vote, without being convinced".

A link from one page to another, for instance, is interpreted as a "vote".

We had an instance with Brexit where a vote went very differently than people anticipated.

For instance, if there's a vote coming on a bill that we care about, we'll write an editorial before the vote, hoping to influence a few lawmakers, but also to alert readers to an important event and give them some background about it.

Each tree's classification of the test instance is recorded as a vote.

Justice Scalia, for instance, was confirmed by a vote of 98-0 in 1986, despite a clear understanding of his conservative judicial philosophy.

That is, once he assembles the results of a poll, if he discovers that there are, say, more self-identified Democrats and fewer Republicans than he would expect to find in a random sample, he gives each Democratic vote slightly less weight — he might count it as nine-tenths of a vote, for instance.

The act authorized the consolidation of two cities, situated with reference to each other as Pittsburgh and Allegheny are, if, upon an election, the majority of the votes cast in the territory comprised within the limits of both cities favor the consolidation, even though, as happened in this instance, a majority of the votes cast in one of the cities oppose it.

The national elections coordinator of True the Vote, for instance, a Texas-based group that wants to train 1m observers to fan out around the country as a guard against voter fraud (an exceedingly rare phenomenon) has said that he wants to make voters feel that they are "driving and seeing the police follow" them.