Sentence examples for instituted polls from inspiring English sources

"Some Chinese officials have instituted polls to assess performance".

And just as we would not tolerate a handful of states instituting poll taxes or restricting your ability to pray where you wanted, we cannot allow states to curb the right to abortion either.

Ancient civilizations also instituted the poll tax, with various sums levied on citizens, slaves, or foreigners.

Leftover or newly instituted were poll taxes, literacy tests and other barriers to prevent poor white men from voting.

The institute polled 1413 people and found 58% of those living in capital cities and regional centres and 64% of those in remote areas supported additional funding for the ABC's regional news services.

The ProRata institute poll, published in the Efimerida ton Syntatkton newspaper, and reported by Reuters, showed 54% of those planning to vote would oppose the bailout against 33% in favour.

A year ago Bangladesh was all over the liberal-left media when January elections were postponed and a caretaker government instituted pending a new poll.

So to bring us all a little closer together, we instituted a Monday Morning Poll, where we can all weigh in on the most important issues of the day.

The last time a mayor fared so poorly in the institute's poll was in April 2000, in the aftermath of a controversial police shooting, when only 37percentt of those polled approved of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's work.

This is the first time in the institute's polling that the approval rate has dropped to single digits.

The biggest reason for this drop-off, according to the institute's poll, is concern over Arab-Americans' No. 1 issue, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.