Sentence examples for on a single vote from inspiring English sources

Enables the government to authorise additional information categories by regulation, on a single vote of each house.

While Democrats hold a majority in Congress, the outcome of a healthcare reform bill could hinge on a single vote.

A side note: As ridiculous as the spending levels are getting, the president and Mr. Romney probably won't beat John Connally's record for the amount of money thrown away on a single vote.

On many of these cases, the outcome may depend again on a single vote — and often, but not always, that means Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose vote decided more 5-4 cases than any other member of the court last year.

But with the balance of power in the State Senate tipping on a single vote, Republicans and Democrats are already squabbling over the home addresses of New York's 58,378 inmates as they anticipate how the 2010 census will reshape the electoral map.

Bryan Gould: I know from painful experience that the odds against an election result turning on a single vote are so apparent that trying to persuade a reluctant voter to go to the polls on election day is an almost impossible task.

The government can also, at any point during the debate over a bill, call for a single vote on the whole of the bill's text.

The abstract of the Princeton study goes on: "Malicious software running on a single voting machine can steal votes with very little risk of detection.

Donald Trump only needs to win Indiana on Tuesday by a single vote to be the likely Republican nominee.

But the margins on crucial amendments were disturbingly close, typically a single vote on a 15-member board, and compromise language left ample room for the struggle to continue.

On Tuesday, council leaders were split by a single vote on whether to accept a deal that would include a raft of new powers and £30m a year in return for establishing an elected mayor.