Sentence examples for prevent it from voting from inspiring English sources

As president in 1861, he dispersed the Missouri Legislature to prevent it from voting to secede.

Harmony Gold Mining said Tuesday that it plans to appeal a ruling preventing it from voting shares it acquired in the initial phase of a hostile $6.6 billion takeover bid of Gold Fields.

And, in a minor embarrassment, Hoeven had to vote against his own amendment to prevent it from reaching the 60-vote threshold needed for adoption.

So why is Koh's appointment being blocked by a few Republican senators, who are using an arcane procedural tactic to prevent it from coming to a vote?

Similarly, when the bill was attached as an Amendment to the Senate Financial Reform bill, the White House worked with Harry Reid and Chris Dodd to prevent it from getting a floor vote in the Senate.

On his way in, he told reporters that if a public health insurance option was in the final health care bill, he would join a GOP filibuster to prevent it from getting an up or down vote.

Among the theories the Clinton campaign held during the election was that college-educated Republicans would be so repulsed by the prospect of a Trump presidency that many would cast a vote to prevent it from happening.

We would prefer a much more streamlined route to citizenship, but we recognize the political difficulties that confronted the authors of the Senate bill and that have prevented it from receiving a vote in the House.

Philip Davies spoke for 90 minutes during a debate on the proposed law, deliberately preventing it from coming to a vote and ensuring it would not be passed.

Now the bill is back with the Senate, where an anonymous senator placed a hold that prevents it from going for a vote.

A spokesman for Mr. Leahy said Republican objections had prevented it from getting a quick floor vote.