Sentence examples for margin voted from inspiring English sources

It also, by a seven-point margin, voted to raise Maine's minimum wage to $12 an hour.

In 2008, nonchurchgoing Catholics went about 58 percent to 40 percent for the Democratic nominee; about the same margin voted Republican in the House races two years later.

On Saturday morning, the voters here in Acadia Parish woke up, went to their polling places and by a three-to-one margin voted to give the Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, a second term, heartily endorsing his honor-student image and his tax-averse, avidly pro-business platform.

Mr. Edwards, who served four terms as Louisiana's Democratic governor and one 10-year sentence on federal bribery and racketeering charges, is still a popular figure in the community but last week voters went to their polling places and by a three-to-one margin voted to give Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal a second term.

They were also the only justices to dissent when the court, by a surprisingly wide 7-to-2 margin, voted last January to preserve the ability of citizens to bring lawsuits to enforce anti-pollution laws, a valuable tool for protecting the environment.

It seems, as I'm saying it, a bit ridiculous to ask that question of Dench, who not long ago was by a margin voted "the greatest actor of all time" in an exhaustive poll of the readers of The Stage magazine.

Barely 24 hours have passed since Kosovo's acceptance into Fifa and 11 days since Uefa, by the narrowest of margins, voted them in on 3 May.

Saltires will flutter, bagpipes will sound and the Scots will, by a comfortable margin, vote to stay in the union.Mr Salmond will have been utterly outmanoeuvredNationalists will put a brave face on their defeat.

While the George W. Bush won the Sunshine State by a mere 537 votes, he lost New Mexico to Al Gore by an even-smaller vote margin: 366 votes.

Rosa DeLauro and Ben Ray Lujan, whose districts had similar presidential margins vote with Trump 14 and 15percentt of the time, respectively.

By a one-vote margin, the local party voted to make the primary nonbinding.