Sentence examples for stopped a vote from inspiring English sources

What the Commission did not reveal was Wilkinson's personal history of fraud as the head of the GOP operatives whose "riot" stopped a vote recount in Miami Dade in 2000, and then, in 2003, as the head of the Coalition Media Center in Doha called an "information deprivation tank" by critic Michael Wolf for all the lies about the coming Iraq War that were disseminated there.

He will find it difficult to stop a vote turning into a referendum on his government.

The Democrats, denied access to Estrada's memos, did the only thing a minority party can do to stop a vote: launch a filibuster.

That agreement — struck between Jeffrey Klein, a Democrat, and Dean Skelos, a Republican — allows either leader to stop a vote from coming to the floor.

The federal court has issued an injunction stopping a vote by Toyota Australia production workers on Friday on a management package to cut costs and boost productivity.

Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington".

Before 1975, it took two-thirds of the Senate to end a filibuster, but it was the "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" filibuster: if senators wanted to stop a vote, they had to bring in the cots and the coffee and read from Grandma's recipe for chicken soup until, unshaven, they keeled over from their own rhetorical exhaust.

But, ultimately, there is little, if anything, they can do to stop a vote.

A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a request by supporters of President-elect Donald Trump to stop a vote recount in Wisconsin, where the Republican won by more than 27,200 votes in the Nov. 8 election, according to court documents.

In recent decades there have been no leaks of Supreme Court rulings, including the momentous 2000 decision that stopped a Florida vote recount, clearing the way for Republican George W. Bush to become president over Democrat Al Gore.

Mr. Bruno and his Republicans stopped a few votes short of killing the bill, just to send a message that debate isn't healthy to one's career, even on a subject as important as lobby reform.