Sentence examples for valuable votes from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

They lack the financial resources of big corporations like N.T.T, he said, "but the local shop owners can collect something even more valuable -- votes".

The Libertarian slogan is "Party of Principle," and its founders believed that principles were more valuable than votes.

As a spot on the list has become more valuable, the votes that put a restaurant there have become more eagerly sought.

West's view is in line with the N.B.A.'s last two most valuable player votes, both won in a landslide by James, with Bryant hardly making a dent in the totals.

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.

A different group tackles the most valuable player voting.