Sentence examples for straight vote from inspiring English sources
It has called for greater transparency this time and says it will win a straight vote.
"There will be a straight vote to repeal it prior to the State of the Union," expected in late January.
He said he decided late last year to find an alternative to a straight vote on China's trade status.
The Republican-controlled legislature still had to approve it, but it was a straight vote, up or down, and amendments were not permitted.
But an animated few will have clocked that the Tory high command promised a straight vote and delivered a crooked one.
Democrats in the Senate believe that Republicans could not withstand the pressure of a straight vote on expanded background checks, which have the support of as much as 90 percent of the public.
He just missed 29 straight votes in Congress.
What is known as straight voting gives no one an edge.
ACCURACY -- Mr. Franks was indeed absent for 29 straight votes between Sept. 28 and Oct. 12.
Mindy Eisenberg Stark, an accountant in Scarsdale, N.Y., said another problem at annual meetings arises when a co-op has "cumulative voting" instead of "straight voting".
But since straight voting is considered the default method, for cumulative voting to be used it must be specified in both the bylaws and the certificate of incorporation.
