Sentence examples for taking a poll from inspiring English sources
And so, in typical Washington fashion, they're taking a poll.
"You can't run a university or an athletic program by taking a poll of people calling into the sports talk shows".
What they discovered was a way to cut the overhead cost of electronic payments by processing only a statistical sample of transactions, like taking a poll.
For example, if you're taking a poll on how people plan to vote in an election, the accepted convention is that two standard deviations above or below the average, which gives a 95percentt confidence level, is reasonable.
After talking to political consultants, fund-raisers and friends -- and, not incidentally, after taking a poll -- he said he had determined that he was too much of a long shot to make it worth entering the race.
"If my job was merely limited to taking a poll of my constituents' views, that would not only go against the fundamental role of representative democracy; it could lead to tyranny," he said as we drove through Pasadena.
Google entices people to take a poll.
How do I take a poll in a conference?
I can take a poll of the pulse.
And we take a poll, and whatever the poll says, that's what we do".
