Sentence examples for sweeping vote from inspiring English sources

In a sweeping vote held here yesterday, 594 members of the Parliament voted in favor of the plan, while only 17 voted against and 13 abstained.

He served as chair of the City of Boston's Election Reform Committee in 2005 leading the city to sweeping voting reforms.

Sir Graham Watson, the Lib Dems' only MEP in the south-west, admitted his chances of re-election next month were low and said that Ukip was sweeping up votes: "I think the Ukip vote is very strong.

There simply aren't enough white voters for Trump to win without sweeping the votes of white women.

Some Republicans, saying it was not sweeping enough, voted against a similar measure in the House, which was defeated today.

Politicians benefited immensely, sweeping up votes with their "tough on crime" rhetoric and assurance that drug use was the result of moral bankruptcy.

On January 26th, Obama crushed Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in South Carolina, sweeping the black vote and winning fifty-five per cent of the vote over all.

"I'm ready to head this government and work for the good of the country," he said, adding that such a move was dependent on United Russia sweeping the parliamentary vote, he said.

With the President Obama sweeping the Latino vote by 71percentthethe issue of immigration reform is no longer an afterthought.

Soon after the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act last year, Holder noted, North Carolina implemented "sweeping restrictions on voting rights" and Texas put in place a voter ID law "that the courts had previously blocked".

On August 10th Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey's first popularly elected president after sweeping 52% of the vote.