Sentence examples for votes above from inspiring English sources

These extra votes against strike action have pushed the total number of votes above the 50% threshold, allowing strike action to take place.

The margin of 15 votes above the two-thirds majority required for clearance of a Constitutional change moves the amendment to the House, which killed a similar amendment in 1960.

Delegates can be selected on a winner-take-all basis as in many Republican Party state primaries, in which the candidate who wins the most votes wins all the delegates at stake or by proportional representation as in the Democratic Party primaries, in which any candidate receiving a percentage of the votes above some threshold is entitled to at least one delegate.

As for the effect of Comey's letter, Saturday in-person voting among registered Democrats was 711 votes above 2012.

That puts him about 18,000 votes above the threshold required to win by a majority and avoid a Dec. 4 runoff.

Typically, ratings with lots of votes above 4 and especially 4.5 indicate high quality.

Day argued that the choice of voting above-the-line or below-the-line created different methods of voting in breach of the constitution: It punishes those voters who vote for minor parties by threatening to kill off their votes and the fact that we had a fair hearing here in the high court... I'm satisfied that we do have in the high court a very, very good system of democracy.

In Scotland, the vote will above all be a verdict on the Scottish National party.

First, by making sure all the moolah went to FIFA, it would place committee members (with no votes to sell) above suspicion.

Last year, I was voted above all the footballers, above Thierry Henry even, as the biggest sports personality".

In theory, the board has the right to vote above or below the proposed range.