Sentence examples for substantial vote of from inspiring English sources

Ron Howard's ocean adventure was set to open in March, but Warner Bros decided at the last-minute to push it to mid-December, during the heat of awards season – a substantial vote of confidence.

"This is in itself a substantial vote of confidence in Welsh steelmaking," said the company in a statement.

The Interior Ministry controls police officers, many of whom were accused of aiding the substantial vote rigging that marred Mr. Karzai's re-election in 2009.

Ironically the failure of the loyalists to harvest a substantial vote in their own community keeps the question of UVF and UDA guns way down the political agenda.

The poll suggests that Mr. Musharraf will have to engage in substantial vote rigging to have the government of his choice win national elections on Jan . 8

But despite the outcries, neither in San Francisco nor elsewhere in the country is there much recent history of the kind of substantial voting fraud that could lead to criminal convictions or overturn elections.

Yuliya Tymoshenko emerged as the most credible of the leaders of the former Orange coalition, which had swept out the old order in 2004, and secured substantial votes in all areas of the country except Donetsk and Luhansk.

Assuming that the president decides to contest Virginia, he could mobilise the state's substantial black vote, a growing block of new minorities, such as Asians and Hispanics, and the moderate white vote rooted in the fast-expanding Washington suburbs.

The majority, single-ballot system (also known as "first past the post" or "winner take all") tends to produce a two-party system, because it excludes parties that may gain substantial numbers of votes but not the majority of votes necessary to elect a representative within a constituency.

He has made a calculated effort to get his supporters to vote early over the past month, hoping to bank a substantial number of votes before losses in other early states raised questions about his viability and his competitors arrived in the state, driving down his numbers in the polls.

Because the state has adopted all-mail voting, there has been a substantial portion of the vote already reported (90percentt of the number of votes cast in the last midterm).