Sentence examples similar to vote of consolation from inspiring English sources

A combo of consolation voting and cinematic chutzpah should seal the deal for Yann Demange and Gregory Burke, the director and writer of '71.

But senators offered her a morsel of consolation by voting to allow her to run for public office, overruling an effort to make her ineligible from doing so for several years.

She feels Barack Obama deserves some sort of consolation prize for getting the most votes and being the most popular.

Ms Davidson insisted the proposals, which would be offset against a cut in the block grant, were not "some kind of consolation prize" in the event of a "No" vote in the 18 September independence referendum.

Should Boris Johnson prevail over Ken Livingstone in Thursday's mayoral vote, enemies of ultra-Conservativism in London might be served a cup of consolation in the form of the defeat of his noisiest City Hall ally.

The mighty mare polled 128 votes to Blame's 102 to give owner Jerry Moss and trainer John Shirreffs a degree of consolation for her near-miss in achieving statistical perfection.

Mr. Fowler found a ray of consolation.

That is always some kind of consolation.

And there are other sources of consolation.

The effort of consolation made him bold.

There is some sort of consolation.