Sentence examples for vote electing from inspiring English sources

One way to avoid this partitioning of the vote electing a minority candidate is the system of approval voting.

Insights into far more recent political maneuverings involving a New York mayor can be found in "The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World" (Harper Paperbacks, $25.95).

Just today, parliament walked back its promise to hold an emergency vote, electing instead to open a special commission to debate the law that would be passed for Gabriel Resources, effectively buying time in the hope that the protests subside.

Bradley was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Electoral Commission of 1877, and his vote elected Rutherford B. Hayes president of the United States.

The paradox is that Mr. Balan says he has no interest in voting, because the Electoral College, not the popular vote, elects the president.

De Mistura acknowledged this was the gap he had to bridge: "It is up to the Syrian people to vote, elect and decide.

In a turn of the generational wheel, last month's vote elected a younger, more liberal National Assembly, where few have personal memories of the Korean War.

Will Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote, elect kindness over cruelty?

In June 1614, the University of Cambridge by unanimous vote elected Coke High Steward, honorary office next below Chancellor of the University.

The 22 "overhangs" got in because Germans split their votes, electing more members with their first votes than their party was supposed to win based on second votes.

Diane Colley-Urquhart, delegate for Ward 13, suggests that "Naheed doesn't lobby for votes," electing instead to let the superior perspectives rise to the top in the chambers.