Sentence examples for the first balloting from inspiring English sources

In the first balloting returns released late last week, the highest-ranking Knick was Eddy Curry.

The latter is to obtain plurality votes where a majority vote was not won on the first balloting It is a complicated method for merely electing a mayor.

Since the first balloting in March, at least 85 people have been killed, thousands beaten — some with iron bars — and thousands driven from their homes.

It was announced yesterday that horses placed in Europe's richest two-mile handicap will from this year have automatic passage through the first balloting stage of the more famous Australian equivalent, the Melbourne Cup.

LUANDA, Angola (AP) — Angolan election officials extended voting by a day here in the capital, but they said Saturday that the logistical problems that marred the first balloting in 16 years were confined to the city.

Politicians count sure votes at their own peril, but families like the Hurleys seem to account for a solid core of Mr. Huckabee's support here in the final weeks before the first balloting to select a Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election.

"At least, not on the first ballot.

But Goldwater captured the nomination on the first ballot.

On the first ballot, Ms. Rice earned 36 percent of the vote.

"A majority would be unbound after the first ballot.

Make it on the first ballot, or be mocked).