Sentence examples for opposing votes from inspiring English sources

All 104 opposing votes came from Republicans, who were sharply split.

There were no opposing votes in the Senate, and only two abstentions in the Assembly.

Within days, legislation was approved to allow immigrants who were brought here illegally as minors to obtain law licenses, with just three opposing votes.

The Senate vote tonight was 91 to 2, with Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, and Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, both Democrats, casting the opposing votes.

The idea, in Orange County and elsewhere, is to send a chill through the democratic process, suppressing opposing votes by whatever means are available.

Some Democrats, who made up all the opposing votes to the bill, and consumer-advocacy organizations were less optimistic about the effect of a law that rolls back regulations on corporate financial disclosure.

But I suspect that when voting time comes, he will feel other pressures — and there once again won't be a single opposing vote.

The sole opposing vote was cast by a former member of the governing party, Daniel Garrigue, who supports a rival to President Nicolas Sarkozy, former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.

It drew an opposing vote from one of the three S.E.C. commissioners at a public meeting and a swift condemnation from a major Wall Street lobbying group.

The opposing vote was cast by State Representative Omeria M. Scott, of Laurel, who objected to wording in the legislation that would allow the old flag to become an official historical flag, instead of being discarded.

The opposing vote was cast by Senator Nia Gill, a Democrat from Montclair, who had said at a hearing on May 9 that Captain Fuentes had yet to recognize that racial profiling is not just a social problem but a constitutional violation.