Sentence examples for valuable vote from inspiring English sources

Unless your petition, phone call or email to Congress is for or against a specific bill - and even more specifically: unless you're in the district of a valuable vote or committee chair for that bill - then your congressperson really can't do much for you at all.

This has merely annoyed Mr Karzai, for whom his half-brother allegedly did valuable vote-rigging service in last year's rotten presidential poll.

As a rule, a handful of coalition lawmakers blackmailed their cabinets in order to capitalise on their valuable votes.

Yet there is more the president could do to uphold the values of religious freedom, lift his slipping approval ratings and protect valuable votes in the November midterm elections.

But now that Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont has shifted the balance in the Senate by leaving the Republican Party to become an independent, Mr. Miller has one of the most valuable votes in his party's caucus.

He has no Gold Gloves, and his highest finish in a Most Valuable Player vote was 13th, in 2005.

Clear-Cut Call for M.V.P. Fred Hickman, the CNN sports anchor, caused a major stir last season when he used his most valuable player vote to pick Allen Iverson over Shaquille O'Neal.

And here we come to the root of the recent news media preoccupation with Hammon: the fear that she, runner-up in the W.N.B.A.'s most valuable player vote last year, could cost her country the gold, if it comes to a medal-round showdown.

If you need to check out of the Super Bowl hype for a bit — official fatigue is scheduled for a few days from now but you may be ahead of your time — go ahead and wander over to the N.B.A. and read why ESPN.com's Rick Reilly is casting a most valuable player vote for Chicago's Derrick Rose and why the former general manager Jerry West is predicting the Lakers' demise.

They can also be a valuable "deciding vote" when it's time to pick between two different photos.

Brady was not voted to the Pro Bowl, and he was third in the most valuable player voting, behind the two quarterbacks the Patriots defeated in the playoffs, Steve McNair and Manning.