Sentence examples for vote is granted from inspiring English sources

Yehuda Amichai, the fine Israeli poet, once observed of Jerusalem that it is "the only city in the world where the right to vote is granted even to the dead".

Listen to these athletic descriptions of Jerusalem, a city that provokes him to tournaments of redefinition, in much the same way that God provoked the medieval mystics to their rising arrow showers of description: "Jerusalem, the only city in the world / where the right to vote is granted even to the dead".

The competition for power arises above all at a national level (even though the popular vote is granted at local electoral districts) and is organised by intermediate structures (political parties) that establish the link between representatives and the represented.

The appointment of the European Commission president has previously been by consensus but Mr Cameron opposed the choice and his demand for a vote was granted.

Veteran Hong Kong political leaders Anson Chan and Martin Lee describe some of the core values -- such as freedom of the press -- that they seek to maintain as Beijing asserts greater control over the territory seventeen years after Britain handed it back to China on the condition that universal suffrage (one man, one vote) be granted by 2017.

As in all other states except Maine and neighboring Nebraska, South Dakota's electoral votes are granted in a winner-take-all system.

Women's suffrage was granted, though voting meant little in Soviet society owing to the Communist Party's monopoly on power.

She is granted another vote by her boss, and has one weekend to persuade the 16 of them to change their votes (and thus lose their bonuses).

New members are selected from the pool of candidates and must receive a majority of the faculty council's votes to be granted membership.

The group went on to help register black women to vote after they were granted suffrage a few months later.

An array of Roman Catholic women are questioning whether Vatican rules barring women from voting at an important global meeting are fundamentally discriminatory ― arguing that the right to vote has already been granted to lay Catholic men.