Sentence examples for voting passed from inspiring English sources

The first round of voting passed off peacefully and there was a turnout of 88%, up from 85% in 2008.

Though voting passed off largely without incident, tensions in the capital and the battleground Christian towns remained high, with the army imposing a midnight curfew on the capital.

The first round of voting passed off peacefully and there was a voter turnout of 88%, up from 85% in 2008.

The first round of voting passed peacefully, raising the prospects of a withdrawal of the Australian-led mission of about 400 UN peacekeeping troops that was deployed to Timor-Leste in 2006 to quell chaotic unrest.

Legislation that would have established two weeks of early voting passed out of the Democratic-controlled state Assembly in 2014 but died in the Senate, for example.

But in Burlingame the vote passed.

Instead the vote passed relatively peacefully.

Whether the vote passed or failed is overemphasized.

The vote passed by 46 to 11, with three abstentions.

After fierce lobbying, the vote passed (see article).

The vote passed in an ambience of total serenity.