Sentence examples for to trigger a vote from inspiring English sources

Even outspoken critics mutter that it would be "suicidal" to trigger a vote of no confidence.

It's an obscure parliamentary tool that allows any member of the House to trigger a vote to oust the Speaker.

Cable says voters should have the power to "recall" their MPs ie to trigger a vote on their re-election.

Judicial salaries, even if linked to the lawmakers' own pensions, are probably not a big enough issue to trigger a vote against the whole budget.

Left-wingers who have always detested him began talking excitedly about getting together the 83 MPs (20% of the parliamentary party) needed to trigger a vote at the party conference in October on whether to hold a leadership election.

It takes only 46 Tory MPs to trigger a vote of no confidence, by writing to the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbenchers and requesting one.History shows how regicidal the Conservative Party can be.

Even if they are found to have passed the required threshold of 1% of voters, that just allows them to go forward to a second petition, in which opponents would have to amass close to 4 million votes to trigger a recall vote.

In Switzerland federal initiatives need about 2% of the population to trigger a national vote.

MPs had indicated they would proceed with plans to potentially have him found in contempt of parliament and seek to trigger a Commons vote on whether the tycoon is a "fit and proper" person to be running a business.

MPs had indicated they would proceed with plans to potentially have him found in contempt of parliament, and would seek to trigger a Commons vote on whether the tycoon was a "fit and proper" person to be running a business.

But the Dutch government was forced to call a non-binding referendum on the agreement after a coalition of Eurosceptic groups gathered 420,000 signatures, enough to trigger a popular vote.