Sentence examples for snap votes from inspiring English sources

Besides, there is indeed an urgent need to inject more direct people power into Europe; it is just that arbitrary snap votes in stagnant economic times are doomed to become vents for frustration on other matters, and so will fail to deliver on this.

Then, in April, she did call the short-notice snap vote for June 8 ― Brits' third major plebiscite in little more than two years.

The Conservatives' snap vote left them in a weakened negotiating position for Brexit and scrambling to reach a deal with the DUP, but the Northern Irish party's right-wing ideology and May's political concessions have fueled controversy that is now likely to grow in the wake of the deal.

Now filibusters would have to be on the floor to stop the presiding officer from calling a snap vote.

They will put considerable pressure on Mattarella to dissolve parliament and set a date for a snap vote.

Turkey heads to the polls on Sunday for a snap vote after elections in June proved inconclusive.

The same afternoon, Chris Dodd, after refusing for weeks to allow the Brown-Kaufman amendment to come up, suddenly cleared the way for a snap vote.

At Bournemouth in 2007 the prime minister, new at the time, toyed with cashing in on his poll lead over the Conservatives by calling a snap vote.

If I don't have a parliamentary majority, though, we will be forced to head to a snap vote," he said.

Critics say Charest called the snap vote to avoid any embarrassment from an ongoing corruption inquiry into the province's construction industry.

The Conservatives want to hold a snap vote in the House of Commons to approve the construction of four new submarines, currently estimated to cost £31bn, that would maintain Britain's round-the-clock nuclear deterrent.