Sentence examples for votes offset from inspiring English sources

While this percentage surged to 57.5 this past November, the recent Obama vote was lower than the 2008 total, and the president received four million fewer white votes, offset by 2.5 million additional ones cast by blacks, Latinos and Asians.

His surprise yes vote offset the no vote of the committee's conservative chairman, Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat, so that the bill could move to the floor of the House.

We will have to see if the increased levels of voting offset the reduction in in-person early voting, starting on Saturday, Oct. 16, but will now be unavailable the following weekend.

If that were repeated throughout, Palm Beach alone might produce enough votes to offset the current Bush margin, plus likely gains from disputed military ballots.

But the question is whether he can win it with enough votes to offset Mr. Bush's gains in less Democratic districts.

North Carolina, Nevada and Colorado each gained 1. The gain of 11 electoral votes was offset by a loss of 4 from four other Bush states, leaving Mr. Bush with a net gain of 7. The Democrats lost eight electoral votes in six states that went for Mr. Gore and gained one in another, for their net loss of seven.

In states where there is a very large black population, the black vote can offset a racially motivated white vote.

In states with large black populations, black-white politics is very intense, but in a Democratic primary, the black vote can offset a racially motivated white vote.

Indeed, it was the breakdown of the pairing system over the summer – when the Conservative party chairman, Brandon Lewis MP, apparently forgot to abstain in a crucial Brexit vote to offset the absence of Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson, who was on maternity leave – that led Siddiq to make her decision.

At stake in those cases as well as the Florida Supreme Court's pending decision are thousands of votes, which could offset Gov. George W. Bush's official margin of 537 votes and give Mr. Gore the Presidency.

This is where the community has used the power of its votes to maybe offset the power of donations.