Sentence examples for putting forward a vote from inspiring English sources

Really what Beautiful Democracy is about is showing that there are ways to engage, and that your voice is powerful and that you can do something other than just kind of passively accepting the status quo, or putting forward a vote that is meant to signal your discontent with the current system.

And we hope that the House does not put forward a full vote".

John Bercow previously told the prime minister that she could not put forward a third meaningful vote if it was "substantially the same" as the last one.

Socialist opponents put forward a motion for a vote of no-confidence to oust the prime minister, a day after his party was convicted of operating a slush fund.

The coalition intends that it will put forward a version of English Votes for English Laws.

"We won votes off Labor and Liberal, we put forward an alternative and when people can see the Greens can put forward a viable alternative they will vote for us," he said.

Under this system, a minister puts forward a name, which is then voted on in a closed government session.

"The way the House of Commons works is that you put forward a Queen's speech and people vote on it.

Republican leaders put forward a proposal that the legislature didn't vote on and that Gov. Tom Wolf (D) rejected.

Speaking in March 2007 at a chapel in Selma, Ala., in commemoration of a bloody march for voting rights, Senator Barack Obama put forward a name for a new generation of African-Americans.

At Telecom Italia in April, minority shareholders put forward a list of alternative directors, which won 20% of the votes.