Sentence examples for vote was introduced from inspiring English sources

This vote was introduced – sensibly – by Cable at the start of this year.

She said that the shareholder spring in 2012 – before the policy vote was introduced and when a record number of remuneration reports were voted down – had been more important.

Aviva's chief executive, Andrew Moss, faced repeated calls to step down after 54% of shareholders voted against its remuneration policies, making the insurer only the fourth FTSE 100 company – after Royal Bank of Scotland, Shell and GlaxoSmithKline – to have its pay rejected in the 10 years since a vote was introduced.

He is to consult on whether the pass rate for a remuneration report should rise to 75% from 50% since the vote was first introduced in 2003 and since when just 18 companies have had their pay deals defeated in the decade since the advisory vote was introduced.

By 1878, legislation calling for the women's vote was introduced in Congress.

"In 2009, a bill to give D.C. a vote was introduced in the Senate, and the Senate did the most dickish thing imaginable: passing it, but with a little addition". .

The single transferable vote is introduced in local government elections in England.

Presidential elections in Singapore, in which the President of Singapore is directly elected by popular vote, were introduced through amendments to the Constitution of Singapore in 1991.

In 1899 plural voting for the assembly was abolished, and in 1900 postal voting was introduced.

Above the line voting was introduced to reduce the level of "informal voting" (that is the number of spoiled ballots).

Preferential voting was introduced for the Legislative Assembly in 1923 and for the Legislative Council in 1933, while voting was made compulsory for the assembly in 1926 and for the council in 1935.