Sentence examples for voting down from inspiring English sources

By voting down the jobs bill, it would save more than $50 billion by 2015 and get 7 percent of the way to the goal.

Shareholders have delivered a damning verdict on a 13% pay rise for Samir Brikho, the chief executive of consultancy group Amec, by almost voting down the remuneration report.

Ahead of the vote, Conservative peer Lord Bourne warned his colleagues against voting down a measure that was a "clear manifesto commitment" by a democratically elected Government.

They accomplished this in a truly convoluted way: By voting down a "resolution of disapproval" that would have blocked the increase.

By voting down clause 118, Liberal Democrat peers who sold out the NHS last year could repair some of that damage.

European Parliament Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt tweeted that by voting down all the options, a "hard Brexit becomes nearly inevitable".

"They take pride in voting down here.

To his credit, Heller joined nine other Republicans in voting down that bill on Tuesday.

He'll think twice next year before voting down the school budget.

So if we decided to vote down a Labour policy that we thought was wrong, that doesn't mean you're voting down the Labour government.

Voting down the bill would provoke a constitutional crisis, because it would breach the Salisbury convention that peers do not vote down a manifesto commitment.