Sentence examples for voting set up from inspiring English sources
With voting by mail, as in our state of Washington, we avoid many of the barriers to voting set up elsewhere, which were put in place to bar African Americans, Latinos, low income and low wage citizens from voting.
The vote set up a confrontation with the Senate, which has its own $31 billion bill.
The votes set up a confrontation between Congressional Republicans and the White House in Congress's waning days.
The vote set up what promised to be a major clash with the Senate and dashed hopes for passage this year of a new five-year farm bill.
But the upcoming votes set up a dramatic finale to the two-year effort by privacy campaigners to reform the NSA after disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden first revealed the existence of the mass collection of telephone metadata in the Guardian.
The initial vote set up a runoff between Eugene and Corvallis, but after some ballots were invalidated due to not being cast in accordance with the law, the two winners were Eugene and Salem.
The 112th Congress has spent a great deal of time on symbolic votes set up by Republicans to embarrass Democrats and vice-versa -- votes on bills that have no chance of passing but force opposition members to go on record with a vote that can be used against them in re-election campaigns.
The New York Times The headline over Ron Nixon's story characterized the cuts as "deep," but the author quickly turned to a play-by-play, writing that the vote "set up what promised to be a major clash with the Senate".
It was the first in the Gulf to give all its citizens the vote, setting up a partially elected parliament, albeit with limited powers, in 2002.
The House vote sets up a confrontation with the Senate, which is to consider a more expensive $31 billion version of the bill after the Memorial Day recess.
The vote sets up new elections, with the date to be announced on Saturday after Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with Governor General David Johnston, who as Queen Elizabeth II's representative acts as the head of state.
