Sentence examples for vote minority from inspiring English sources

After the vote, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was noncommittal about whether Democrats would participate on the special committee, but assailed the new probe.

Donald Trump conned (a popular vote minority) of the voters to make him president, largely through starring on the reality show "Celebrity Apprentice".

Shortly before the vote, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), who was caught between supporting her members' opposition to the trade deal and not wanting to embarrass a Democratic president, announced she was voting against the retraining bill as the only way to block the larger trade accord.

In doing so, Heitkamp joined a successful 46-vote minority that killed a key legislative goal of the Obama administration.

While he could out-vote minority shareholders at that point, such a move would be highly contentious.

Mr. RePass has made clear the source of my misgivings about the requirement of a 60-vote majority for passage of any Senate bill: the mere threat of a filibuster by a 41-vote minority allows it to override majority rule in relative anonymity.

We already have a "red card" at the governmental level but are in a voting minority more often than any other EU member.

In a city where white residents are becoming a voting minority, and barring any last-minute upset, that appears to be a winning position.

Cumulative voting gives minority shareholders more voting power by allowing them to cast all of their board-of-director votes for a single candidate.

The question was, Would other minorities vote for this minority?

On a voice vote, the minority plank was defeated.