Sentence examples for using the ballot box from inspiring English sources

South Africans are using the ballot box to speak to their leaders and that can only be a good thing.

Although opponents of Proposition 16 spent barely $100,000, the measure was nonetheless defeated amid criticism that PG&E was using the ballot box to restrict competition.

Using the ballot box to force their early retirement is the only option.

Again, the Court decided that citizens could not perpetuate obviously destructive segregation and inequality by using the ballot box to overturn justice.

At the time, it seemed mind-boggling that such an omnipotent and astute tyrant could be ousted using the ballot box.

It's the symbolism that's important". After living in Oxnard's La Colonia district during walnut harvests over a period of years, Chavez returned to the city in the late 1950s to help form a community organization dedicated to registering voters and using the ballot box to improve the sorry conditions of barrio life.

Just over 47 per cent of the 2,203,885 eligible voters used the ballot box, compared to 66.68 per cent in the 2008 elections in the region.

As he used tricks to get his way, we will use the ballot box to drive him out," says M23 spokesperson Alioune Tine.

He begged them to use the ballot box to prove South Africa could elect its leaders on the strength of their convictions, not the color of their skin.

In turn, the US wants assurances that the group will not use the ballot box to seize power and impose an undemocratic regime.

Dr. Ahmed Ateeq, a Western-educated physician, compared the Arab world today to Germany in the early 1930's, when Hitler used the ballot box to take power.