Sentence examples similar to requests for votes from inspiring English sources

As well as the huge dossier of amendments, there have been more than 900 requests for voting to be carried out via secret ballot.

In the morning, he'd return it with comments written in the margin, phrases underlined and requests for vote counts.

They'd been scheming about dilatory tactics they could use to tie up business on the House floor this week -- making requests to adjourn, asking for votes on gun-related bills during debate on other bills -- but they said the plan to literally sit down on the floor was hatched just before it happened, somewhere in the hallways between the Capitol Visitor Center and the House chamber. .

Liberty was also hamstrung earlier this year when the Federal Trade Commission denied the company's request for voting rights for its 4percentt stake in AOL Time Warner.

The organization is registered as an NGO with United Nations but the U.N. is not involved in monitoring elections in the U.S. The request for voting day monitoring came from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP and the ACLU, among other groups.

There had been a marked rise in requests for proxy votes between the two rounds.

Polar Capital, the second largest shareholder with 13%, did not return requests for its voting intentions.

He was a whirlwind of handshakes, wide grins, have-a-terrific-days and gentle requests for a vote on Tuesday.

Other companies, however, have fought the opposition; they received a lift this year when the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled that companies can ignore some shareholder requests for a vote.

After completion of the sixth FGI, the list was mailed to all participants with a request for their votes on three core features that they would prioritize in the design of the future internet service.

On September 29, 2008 (a day after lower state and federal courts overruled GOP objections to same-day registration and voting or GOP requests for mandated ballot segregation and verification) the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, Ohio rejected Republican efforts to stop the plan.