Sentence examples for sold ballot from inspiring English sources

The items bought and sold: ballot access, a road project, a community center, politicians' votes, party endorsements.

Most tickets to the Wimbledon tennis tournament are sold by ballot.

Martin Kaplan, associate dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, said Mr. Schwarzenegger had deftly sold the ballot proposals as the only responsible way to address the budget problems.

It has been selling voting machines, including the dated punch-card ballots, for over 30 years and claims half the nation's voting precincts as customers.

A recent exposé by the Miami Herald/Times found that big utilities and fossil-fuel interests have been pulling a fast one on Florida voters, deploying "the language of promoting solar" in order to sell a ballot measure that would actually threaten the solar industry.

"The fact that the ballot sold out in nine hours and 47 minutes, when 125,000 people applied, really helps the charities drive that up".

"The toughest thing I run into when I try to sell new balloting technology is administrators who say, 'Why should I change?

Seats have been left empty at the Olympic Games despite high demand when tickets were sold through a public ballot.

The brothers realized that their brand of politics didn't sell at the ballot box.

When I cast the ballot I've sold to the highest bidder, I will immunize myself from prosecution with a declaration providing post facto legality, based on my hypothetical intent to relocate.

Mr. Lang proposed that after a while, the ballots should be sold.