Sentence examples for near voting from inspiring English sources

It's an attempt to tell Ali's story without speaking of the times in which he lived, when blacks were not allowed to go to the same toilets as whites, sit in the same section of the bus, and that's even before we get near voting rights or equal pay.

Turnbull's victory is not an entirely convincing one, however, as the near vote revealed that almost half the Liberal Party were in support of Peter Dutton taking the leadership.

The population is scattered widely and, to participate in the caucuses, people have to spend at least a couple of hours at the nearest voting precinct.

In Canaan, a sprawling hillside slum home to hundreds of thousands of people, including many of those displaced from the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti nearly six years ago, voters sometimes had to travel miles to the nearest voting center.

A16 Alaskan Oil Drilling Nears Vote As the Senate neared a close vote on whether to allow oil drilling in the Alaskan wilderness, both sides in the debate expressed confidence they would find the votes to prevail.

As Congress nears votes on legislation that would overhaul the health care system, many small businesses say they are facing the steepest rise in insurance premiums they have seen in recent years.

In voting, she received 473 points, with her nearest vote-getting competitor, Becky Hammon, getting only 254.

"A 100% vote for strike action plus a near 100% vote in favour of a 12-hour roster system cannot and should not be ignored.

Imagine our politics with laws and civic norms that yield near-universal voting.

The reality of two Sudans was hammered home yesterday as southerners celebrated a near total vote for secession, while riot police battled protesters in Khartoum demanding that the northern government resign.

In a near unanimous vote on Wednesday, the St . Petersburgcity parliament passed the first draft of a law that would ban what the Russian press has labeled "homosexual propaganda".