Sentence examples for various votes from inspiring English sources

The various votes for "likes" in the museum are equally unilluminating.

At a meeting of policy and communications aides, Steve Schmidt, Mr. Bush's deputy communications director, directed his staff to plan a conference call for Orlando reporters with Representative Adam H. Putman of Florida, to criticize Mr. Kerry on various votes.

The sit-in continued through a series of legislative proceedings – unrelated to gun control – that dragged into the early hours of Thursday, with representatives coming and going in the chamber to take part in various votes while the Democrats maintained their encampment.

Besides the various votes on whatever the joint committee comes up with, a budget is due by October 1st; part of the petrol (gasoline) tax is up for renewal next month; unemployment benefits will become much less generous at the end of the year; and the tax cuts enacted under George Bush and extended last year will expire again at the end of 2012.

The "middle game" is getting it through the committees, and all the various votes necessary to pass both houses.

Difficulties with the mechanics of various voting systems are of minor consequence.

Several national experts said it was the first such lawsuit to be filed since the conclusion of last year's presidential campaign, which exposed serious accuracy problems with various voting systems, particularly those using punch-card ballots.

If we are to have electoral reform, then the various voting methods should be put to the public and debated on their individual merits, not shoe-horned in by a government in its last days of power.

And in recent years, various vote-at-16 proposals have been made by lawmakers in New York City, Baltimore, Minnesota, Texas, Maine and California, where a state senator in 2004 proposed giving 16-year-olds half a vote in state elections, and 14-year-olds a quarter-vote.

The analysis, which highlighted the problems associated with various voting methods and the disparate distribution of voting technologies according to socioeconomic status (i.e., wealthier areas generally had more advanced technology and fewer invalidated ballots), spurred extensive debate about election reform.

HAVA was a response to the troubles encountered in various voting systems during the 2000 election.