Sentence examples for two-thirds voted from inspiring English sources

Speaker John Boehner was humiliated by his own party, of which two-thirds voted against the deal in the House.

I'm not surprised by this – but was taken aback that two-thirds voted to stay with Brussels.

The single women who did make it to the polls supported Al Gore overwhelmingly -- about two-thirds voted for him, while a little less than one-third voted for George W. Bush, according to surveys.

Although some of the 1,500 delegates from the United Federation of Teachers criticized the recommendation for a longer school day, about two-thirds voted to support the recommendations.

But in fact, when the Senate voted on the measure on June 8 , 1844 fully two-thirds voted against the treaty.

On February 1st, parliament first voted to accept a report that implicated him in two financial scandals and then censured him, thus moving a step closer towards seeing the back of him.

About two thirds voted for U.S. equities.

Two thirds voted in favor of renewing the deal, with one third against, SPD treasurer Dietmar Nietan announced Sunday.

According to one survey, of the voters who cited Bush's broken "No New Taxes" pledge as "very important", two thirds voted for Bill Clinton.

The 40th Congress's lame duck session passed the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed that the right to vote could not be restricted because of race; Sherman joined the two-thirds majority that voted for its passage.

On Saturday the adult actors and assistant stage managers who work at the theater in the American Girl Place store on Fifth Avenue at 49th Street voted, for the second time, to take on Actors Equity Associationn as their bargaining representative.