Sentence examples for internal ballot from inspiring English sources
"We face difficult decisions both at home and abroad," Mr. Noda told party members after the internal ballot at a Tokyo hotel, which pitted him against three opponents.
A presidential election is due in March.Another new faceIn Japan Yoshihiko Noda, the finance minister, won an internal ballot within the ruling Democratic Party of Japan to become the country's next prime minister, the sixth new one in five years.
Even internal ballots in political parties are watched with intense interest.
Mr. Noda outmaneuvered more prominent rivals in an internal party ballot on Monday, making him leader of the Democratic Party, which has been plagued by internal feuding.
Although there has been a relative spell of calm in Conservative ranks in recent weeks, a disastrous performance at the ballot box could revive internal criticism of David Cameron's leadership.
Ballot papers have been issued to lapsed members for recent National Executive Committee Elections when the rules state that those more than six months in arrears cannot vote in internal elections.
Both of these campaigns — along with the Ickes/Penn-led effort in 1996 — had plenty of internal discord and plenty of success at the ballot box in November.
In an internal email to all staff after the union ballot results today, Lucy Adams, director of people at the BBC, said management was "very pleased that the offer was accepted by the majority of union members".
It's being used in more than a dozen U.S. cities, in Democratic and Republican internal party contests in Virginia and Utah, and will be on a statewide ballot measure in Maine in 2016.
The bill includes powers to investigate and fine trades unions over how they carry out internal elections, spending on political funds and the conduct of ballots to maintain a political fund.
Internal polling showed support for the initiative dropped more than 15percentt based on the ballot language alone, and supporters were never able to make up that lost ground.
