Sentence examples similar to lay vote from inspiring English sources

In the crucial lay votes there were 152 votes in favour, 45 against and five abstentions.

She won 153 clergy votes and 203 lay votes, giving her just enough to emerge as the winner.

Thirty-nine clergy votes and 83 lay votes were the threshold necessary to elect a bishop in the Diocese of New Hampshire at that time.

And at least some residents of the area were not satisfied, as they gathered along Mr. Obama's motorcade route holding up signs like "You Lie," "Vote Them Out" and "Stop Spending My Future".

The legislation had needed a two-thirds majority in each of the three houses of the General Synod to pass, but, despite comfortably managing that in both the houses of bishops and clergy, it was dealt a fatal blow in the laity, where lay members voted 132 votes in favour and 74 against.

But the lay members' vote may be tight.

Their lay members voted consistently against, as they had done two years ago.

After passionate appeals from both sides of the debate, clergy members and lay people voted 227 to 82 to "realign" the conservative diocese.

On Saturday, 119 of 191 lay members voted in favor of leaving the national church, as did 121 of 160 clergy members.

A previous attempt in 2012 failed when 74 lay members voted against, preventing the required two-thirds majority among the laity.

This new electorate would be drawn from the urban artisanal classes who, the hope was, were now sufficiently embourgeoised to know that their best interests lay in voting with their betters.