Sentence examples for votes that make from inspiring English sources

"Those are the kinds of votes that make you back home," Mr. Davis said, cheerily pragmatic.

Alas, he admitted later, next year's elections are already bogging down the Senate, as Republicans running for the White House posture, and Democrats seek votes that make them look compassionate and opponents heartless.

Before the conventions, it was the Bush campaign claiming a lead and the Gore campaign maintaining that there was essentially a dead heat in the contest for the 270 electoral votes that make a majority of the 538 to be cast.

You can't say you care about marginalized groups and then cast votes that make their lives more difficult.

During that round of voting, members considered two amendments from each party, giving Democrats and Republicans alike a way to say they took action while avoiding the kind of up-or-down votes that make for more potent political attacks.

"I think there are a constellation of issues that Obama faces in trying to win Jewish votes that make it difficult for him, particularly in places where those voters might be more conservative in general, or might be attracted to a Republican candidate like McCain who professes absolute fealty to Israel.

Instead, his campaign has become a referendum on a single decision: his choice last year to cast one of the decisive votes that made same-sex marriage legal in New York State.

The 2004 presidential election finally came to a formal close without fanfare a little more than a week ago when the members of the Electoral College met in each state to cast the magic votes that made George W. Bush president for a second term.

That could make it very difficult for Mr. Odinga if he runs for president again in 2012, because it was in no small part the large bloc of Kalenjin votes that made him the leading contender in 2007, and possibly even the winner, had there not been widespread fraud.

Instead, the government was accused of carrying out massive ballot box stuffing of Pashtun votes that made it appear that millions of Pashtuns had voted and gave Mr Karzai an undisputed advantage against Mr Abdullah.

"The Story of 87 Votes that Made History," said a cover headline in U.S. News & World Report.