I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a majority vote
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The majority vote carries the resolution.
a round of voting
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In the first round of voting he took 44.5 percent of the vote,
absentee vote
card vote
casting vote
eligible to vote
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Over 500,000 18-year-olds will become eligible to vote this year.
first-past-the-post voting
free vote
lose (sth) by 1 goal/10 votes/20 points etc
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The government lost by one vote.
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The Communist candidate lost by a whisker a very small amount .
passed...vote of no confidence
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On April 22 the National Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in the government.
postal vote British English
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Housebound voters should register early for a postal vote.
proxy vote
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a proxy vote
received...votes (= 324 people voted for him )
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Lee received 324 votes .
swing votes
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Do campaign gifts swing votes ?
tactical voting
the popular vote
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He won the presidency with almost 86 percent of the popular vote.
the voting age
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plans to bring down the voting age from 18 to 16
vote Labour
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They always vote Labour.
vote of censure
vote of confidence
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On April 19 the new government won a vote of confidence by 339 votes to 207.
vote of no confidence
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On April 22 the National Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in the government.
vote of thanks
vote on a proposal
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Shareholders will vote on the proposal on May 5.
vote on a resolution
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Are there any comments you wish to make before we vote on this resolution?
voting booth
voting machine
won...vote of confidence
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On April 19 the new government won a vote of confidence by 339 votes to 207.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
for
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Which Ugly Sister are you voting for ?
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They're made to pay taxes they didn't vote for .
on
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Individuals can not choose what they vote on or when they vote.
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Most dividends are paid quarterly, and each quarterly payment must be voted on and approved by the board.
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The commitments have been abandoned before they have been voted on .
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The women never went to the rallies with the men, even when the settlement was voted on .
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The scheme has to be voted on by Headteachers and parents within ten days to guarantee it's success.
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Legislation to derail these plans was voted on by the Senate last year.
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Read in studio Hundreds of bus company workers have been voting on whether to accept a six percent pay cut.
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The package is part of the budget bill to be voted on for the next fiscal year.
overwhelmingly
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On Dec. 7 delegates voted overwhelmingly to retain the party's name.
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The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly last month to repeal the tax break only after it had become public.
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The members of the 26-strong congressional black caucus voted overwhelmingly on July 11 to oppose the nomination.
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When the special Texas Convention was called on July 4, to consider the issue, it also voted overwhelmingly for annexation.
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I know that the House will vote overwhelmingly for the Bill, which I wholeheartedly recommend.
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In the end, the conference voted overwhelmingly to endorse the amendment.
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After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation.
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Parents there voted overwhelmingly against opting out in the final ballot.
unanimously
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During the initial month's activity in August 1990 which saw 10 resolutions adopted, only 4 were voted unanimously .
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The commission voted unanimously for a 38-page reading and writing standard that includes a section on listening and speaking skills.
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They also voted unanimously to approve adding three more pages to minutes of a July 10 meeting.
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The commission unanimously voted to reprimand Williams for lying about the Las Vegas hotel rooms.
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Later that year, the House voted unanimously to censure Diggs.
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The regents voted unanimously to accept a compromise plan delaying the end of affirmative action until spring 1998.
■ NOUN
bill
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Lawmakers initially had been scheduled to vote on the bill Friday, but postponed the balloting for lack of sufficient votes.
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But will he vote against the mastectomy bill ?
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I know that the House will vote overwhelmingly for the Bill , which I wholeheartedly recommend.
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John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose, voted for the bill while urging the state to follow through with a job-creation program.
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At that time the Conservative party voted against the Bill because we thought that it was entirely wrong.
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The education measure disturbed Bryant enough that he voted against the bill in its final form.
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All Nottinghamshire Conservative Members were present at that debate, and they voted against the Bill .
board
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On Wednesday, the new board voted 7 to 3 for the new standards.
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The board is scheduled to vote on the Salvation Army grant in two weeks.
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Continental's managers and supervisory board urged shareholders to vote against several of the resolutions proposed by Mr Vicari.
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Last week, the board voted to declare bankruptcy.
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Examining past, present, and projected student enrollments in one district, the school board voted to dismiss four teachers.
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However, he tabled the measure before the Board of Supervisors voted on it.
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Syncronys' board will vote Feb. 29 on selling the naval ship computer design program maker for $ 440, 000.
candidate
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And if voters have voted for an excluded candidate , why should they be permitted to switch their preference?
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On election day, the regime brought contingents of troops into the city to vote for its candidates .
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These other Electors can vote for their chosen candidate , but they can not put themselves forward as Emperor.
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Meyer voted for independent presidential candidate Ross Perot in 1992, then voted a straight Republican ticket in 1994.
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Mr Knapp warned passengers and rail workers alike their fate was in their own hands if they voted for candidates supporting privatisation.
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Team members vote on candidates and develop rankings-high to low.
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Since 1879, House rules have required a majority of those voting for a distinct candidate to elect a speaker.
committee
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The central committee of Tehiya voted to leave the coalition government.
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Afterward, the committee proceeded to vote 7 to 3 to reject the charter concept.
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Not one woman on the committee would vote for her.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to split the bill into two parts, one each dealing with legal and illegal immigration.
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Yet the committee voted four-to-two in favour of smoking in the directors' suites - though they reckoned the air-conditioning would need fixing.
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The committee voted 17-9 to table the bill.
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After the ethics committee voted on Dec. 12, 1995, that the complaints former Rep.
council
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The council voted narrowly last month to rejoin the devolved government.
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Last month, the Council on Competitive Government voted to accept bids on a contract.
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Last June, the Council voted to bring in the arrangements from September 2000.
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The city council done voted to take over these whole twelve blocks.
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Gloucestershire County Council will vote on the ban tomorrow - the anti-hunt groups say they're confident of victory.
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The council will vote on the re-&038;.
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There was no consistent pattern in Security Council voting over the crisis.
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Then the City Council voted to become the Town Council.
democrat
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They even won over about half of the traditionally Democrat-voting Catholics.
election
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Participation is measured using voter turnout, or the percentage of the eligible voters who actually voted in national elections .
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The members know perfectly well that they will be beaten over the head with any yes vote at the next election .
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The most desirable on-line capability was voting in elections , with half the sample in favor.
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The first round of voting in the presidential elections took place on Aug. 2.
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They vote because elections matter to them; they are the only citizens whose votes should matter to us.
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All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years.
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Most of them had not voted in several elections .
foot
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The Derbyshire Times noted that defiant parents were voting with their feet by keeping children away from school.
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The problem is how to keep up with the pace of voting without putting a foot wrong.
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Perhaps it is not surprising that many younger doctors are voting with their feet .
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If not, they will vote with their feet when they are old enough to do so.
government
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The strained but defiant Premier pleaded with Tory Euro-rebels not to vote against the Government .
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Do I vote for lower taxes or do I vote for higher government spending?
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He said he was threatened that his career was finished if he voted against the Government .
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Late last night Mellor did his duty as a backbencher by voting for the Government at the end of the economy debate.
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By voting with the Government , it let Labour walk away.
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I was not shown as voting for the Government motion in Division 15.
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The independence of the cross-benchers provided little balance: calculations in 1988 showed that they voted two-one in favour of the government .
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I voted for this government because they said they weren't going to go in for that sort of rubbish.
house
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That same year, the 100-member House voted for outright repeal, causing a General Assembly stalemate.
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Late last year, the panel and House leaders agreed the House would vote on the sanction by Jan. 21.
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Under a schedule worked out earlier this week, the House would vote on the sanction no later than Jan. 21.
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The House is scheduled to vote Jan. 21 on proposed sanctions against Gingrich.
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Only two months ago the House voted to eliminate all spending for AmeriCorps.
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Gallegly said Gingrich promised him Wednesday that the House would vote on a version of the bill with his amendment in it.
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Each year since then, she has pushed for similar sanctions, but the House has consistently voted no.
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A budget bill passed the Republican-controlled House by only three votes earlier this week.
issue
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Moreover, even if I were called, there is no opportunity to vote on the issue .
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Overall, Feingold has a liberal voting record on social issues and a moderately conservative one on fiscal matters.
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The people of Birmingham ought to be allowed to vote on this all-important issue .
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No surprise there: Political handlers tell candidates that only 2 percent of the electorate considers foreign affairs a voting issue .
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Then there is the problem of qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues .
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He did not completely rule out qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues .
majority
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The majority of people voted in favour of parties that advocate the inclusion of the social chapter, but the Government rejects it.
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A majority of those voting can overturn the actions of their own elected representatives.
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Then there is the problem of qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues.
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But the majority voted to support her.
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The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers.
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But that is pretty magnanimous of him, given the large majority who voted for him rather than for Bush.
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Though short of the needed 50% of all voters, a big majority of those who voted favoured new parliamentary elections soon.
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In the end, it appeared a majority would not vote to enshrine a right to physician-assisted suicide.
member
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Under the Arab League Charter a resolution passed by a majority of votes was binding only on member states voting in favour.
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For the U. S. Supreme Court to hear a case, four of its nine members must vote to do so.
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Although the move was defeated and the renationalisation policy endorsed, party members voted to remit the controversial proposal for further consideration.
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Council members also voted in principle to pay themselves or their firms for the time they spent working on Council affairs.
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For example: Union members vote for Hoover then, and Reagan now.
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In November, at a neighborhood meeting, 11 of the 12 sitting members were voted out.
office
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It's the ordinary folks at home who vote you into office , remember - and out of it.
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Four of the five who voted him out of office either refused to discuss the removal or did not return phone calls.
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If democratic elections still exist, the chances are that the government will be voted out of office .
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Within weeks, he was voted back into office .
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In 1991 he was voted out of office as governor of Carinthia for praising Hitler's employment policies.
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Having failed to see this, Bush was voted out of office .
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Mr I Wall, was then voted into office .
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If managers do badly, the company's directors may be voted out of office at the annual general meeting of shareholders.
parliament
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The nearest thing to a University Parliament , they were voting on plans to promote fifteen people to professor.
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In the Parliament of 1679 he voted against the exclusion of the Duke of York from the throne.
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He knew full well: by Acts of Parliament , voted by landlords to benefit their like.
party
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Miners all over the country will know that the Labour party voted against those terms.
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No senator crossed party lines in the voting .
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Although the move was defeated and the renationalisation policy endorsed, party members voted to remit the controversial proposal for further consideration.
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He defeated Ichiro Ozawa, head of the opposition Shinshinto party , 288 votes to 167.
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We should not forget that his party voted against a review body.
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Or is it the party that voted to support a Constitutional Amendment that would make abortion illegal?
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Some 282 of the 410 members of the Birkenhead party voted in the contest.
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Instead, party members will vote for the nominee, either by phone, computer or mailbox by next Friday.
people
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Politicians like them because holding shares may persuade people to vote against parties keen on renationalising former state businesses.
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Only 29 percent of the 19. 5 million people old enough to vote in California participated.
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The chairman asked each candidate to give a one sentence reason why people should vote for them.
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The people voted for 172 thinking they would be getting increased money for public safety.
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They believed at least 5 percent of the people would vote for a cleaner, safer and kinder future.
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Under Florida law, such people are banned from voting for life.
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Mr Alton said official electoral registration surveys were inadequate, missing many people actually eligible to vote .
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S.-brokered peace agreement in Bosnia as 2. 9 million people prepare to vote in national elections scheduled Saturday.
percent
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Of the republican budget 2.8 percent was voted for military expenditure.
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Bob Dole Wednesday, is that no more than 16 percent of independents will vote .
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This week, 60 percent voted for multilateralism.
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Among all registered voters in Texas, 7 percent said they would vote to put Perot in the White House.
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Preliminary results indicated a turnout of about 58 percent , of whom 69.2 percent voted in favour and 25.6 percent against.
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The Gaylord family controls about 60 percent of the voting stock, so approval is virtually certain.
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The 9 percent PacTel vote adds momentum to this campaign.
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Regaining the initiative, King quipped that the other 2 percent are all voting for Pat Buchanan.
president
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If you voted for president in 1992, who for? 36.
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Electors before 1804 did not vote separately for president and vice-president, as they do now.
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Dole likes to joke that he was voted president of Iowa, known as the Hawkeye State.
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Exit polls showed that 81 percent of those who voted for the president had a favorable opinion of his wife.
republican
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Being a Republican he would vote the Democratic ticket.
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I have been a loyal Republican all my voting life until the past two presidential elections.
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I am a staunchly independent Republican who votes his constituent base.
senate
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And the nation cheered when the Supreme Court and the Senate voted last week to impeach him.
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Meanwhile, the Senate voted but failed to get a two-thirds majority on the balanced budget and flag desecration amendments.
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Gramm missed 68 votes , making him a participant in 88. 9 percent of the Senate votes.
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Connie Mack, R-Fla., as the Senate voted 74-22 for the bill.
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However, the override is given little chance of passing the Senate where 54 senators voted for the ban last year.
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Each delegate prepares a bill or a resolution for the mock senate to vote on.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to split the bill into two parts, one each dealing with legal and illegal immigration.
state
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The laws blocking these citizens from voting are state laws.
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Republicans will vote in seven states with 362 delegates, and Dole is expected to win at least 300 of them.
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Now that burden may shift to Republicans, some of whom have never voted for a state budget.
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Those responding said they vote regularly in state elections.
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Election votes in many states and localities overwhelmingly show it.
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Turnout for the primary was high with about 75 percent of registered Republican voters showing up to vote , state officials said.
voter
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And if voters have voted for an excluded candidate, why should they be permitted to switch their preference?
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To assure party loyalty, the precinct captains merely accompany the voter into the voting machine.
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Participation is measured using voter turnout, or the percentage of the eligible voters who actually voted in national elections.
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Clinton hammered away at campaign themes tailor-made to appeal to predominantly white swing voters who might otherwise vote for Republican Bob Dole.
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There is little evidence to suggest voters voting for a particular party because of its stand on a particular issue.
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The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries.
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What is most noteworthy here is that at every stage after the first the exhaustive ballot enables voters to vote knowledgeably.
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After his defeat by 984 votes , Dornan immediately claimed the election was marred by voter fraud, including voting by noncitizens.
week
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And the nation cheered when the Supreme Court and the Senate voted last week to impeach him.
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Buchanan and Forbes moved on Tuesday to the industrial states that will vote next week .
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The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge.
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With more than 1. 1 million eligible to vote last week , only 49, 266 voted.
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The county Planning Commission voted 4-1 last week to endorse it.
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The Senate is slated to vote this week .
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It voted last week to determine whether doctors are giving placards to the undeserving.
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A budget bill passed the Republican-controlled House by only three votes earlier this week .
woman
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Note 1933 elections Religion: large no. of women vote for 1st time.
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He and a white woman in her twenties voted against the amount of the awards.
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This was held on 17 November 1933, women voting for the first time.
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In those early days, we are told, women voted as well as men.
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Is it true that men are more likely than women to vote in a democracy?
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A Mormon bishop boasted that when the women of Utah voted , they voted for the tried friends of the church.
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National exit polls showed 54 percent of women voted for Clinton and 38 percent chose Dole.
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Universal democracy needed a civil war to end slavery and a constitutional amendment to let women vote .
■ VERB
allow
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The bill marks the end of a shocking anomaly similar to the one that once allowed only men to vote .
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And under no circumstances are you allowed to vote for me.
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He cited examples of cities that allowed noncitizens to vote in municipal elections in Maryland and several other states.
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So who should be allowed to vote in this election?
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The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries.
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All those with permanent residence in the republic are to be allowed to vote in a 10 December poll.
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If voters do not understand the process, they should not be allowed to vote .
register
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You can find most people that way unless, like me, they don't register to vote .
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The following year, Three registered to vote again, at a different address across the street.
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Nearly 7, 000 full-timers are registered to vote in Texas' Polk County.
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Every move requires a person to take the time and fight the hassle to register to vote .
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Do you want to distinguish between those who are and are not registered to vote ?
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Every move required the mover to take the time to register to vote , if so inclined.
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A dozen registered to vote at the Coming Home Hospice, a facility for people with less than six months to live.
win
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However, I am not at all surprised that many who would have profited had they won did not so vote .
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Married women voted Republican in 1984 and 1988-and the Republicans won .
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Can a majority of public opinion be won over to vote for joining a single currency in just three or four years?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
block booking/voting
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Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
majority vote/decision/verdict etc
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And I suppose the way to change the damned constitution is with a majority vote.
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It took the jury almost five hours to reach a majority verdict and acquit her on all three charges.
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Stopping the White House from selling weapons to a foreign country requires a majority vote in both houses of Congress.
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Supposing Yorkshire or Cornwall decided by a majority vote to secede from Britain and elect their own government.
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The majority decision said the cabinet must now report to the legislature on its plan to scrap the plant.
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The reason for this is that government output is determined on the basis of a simple majority vote model.
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Then there is the problem of qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues.
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With a pure majority vote, this would presumably be enacted.
propose a vote of thanks (to sb)
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Chairman Gerald Davies proposed a vote of thanks.
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I did listen to him proposing a vote of thanks occasionally, and I was always glad when he sat down.
vote of no-confidence/no-confidence vote/motion of no-confidence etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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70% of the population voted for independence.
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Greg says he has never voted.
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Hundreds of people lost their lives in the past fighting for the right to vote .
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I've voted Democrat all my life.
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I haven't decided who I'm going to vote for.
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In tomorrow's election, many young people will be voting for the first time.
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Only two people voted against the expansion of the business.
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Teachers will be voting on a proposal to accept the 5% pay offer.
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The Board of Supervisors has refused to vote more money for the project.
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The vast majority of people voted in favour of closer links with Europe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A review of computer messages between council members during April shows some of them lobbying colleagues on how to vote .
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All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years.
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But he could be forced from office if 61 members of the 120-seat Knesset voted to remove him.
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Compton, it is worth noting, had voted against Exclusion in the Lords in November 1680.
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He was also voted top baritone player in 1998.
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Mr Alton said official electoral registration surveys were inadequate, missing many people actually eligible to vote .
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Only 26 members of his own party ended up voting not to reprimand him.
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This would allow Congress to count on the savings without ever voting to alter the index.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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The black vote is astonishingly loyal to the Democratic Party.
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Christie Whitman got 25 percent of the black vote in New Jersey.
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Another astute electoral move helped to win 70% of the black vote for Kennedy.
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George Allen received 22 percent of the black vote .
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Clinton returned to the electoral fray last week to get out the black and Hispanic vote in California and the south.
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This leaves one important question: How does the Republican nominee get more of the black and minority vote ?
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Q: Can the Democratic Party afford to take the black vote for granted?
casting
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There was heated debate, but by the casting vote of the chairman we got our grant.
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Without hesitation the General threw his casting vote in favour of the gallows.
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The Chair has the casting vote in the case of a tie.
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The only solution seems to be to rotate the casting vote , but there are always Trollopean difficulties and rivalries.
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Verity Lambert would have artistic control over, and generally the casting vote in any decisions about, the programme.
conservative
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It certainly lost us quite a lot of Conservative votes .
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The religious conservative vote is perhaps more influential in South Carolina than in any state.
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Our Conservative vote increased from 23,753 to 24,591.
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He is preaching to the choir of religious-right Protestants and conservative Catholics whose votes should already be locked up.
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Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.
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The Conservative vote dropped from 59.9 percent of the valid vote at the 1987 general election, to 40.9 percent.
electoral
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Hayes's election depended on contested electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida.
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He noted that Wisconsin controls only 11 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
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If all the disputed electoral votes went to Hayes, he would win; just one of them would elect Tilden.
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Perot did not carry a single state in 1992 and, as a result, did not win any electoral votes .
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At 3.15 this morning Clinton had passed the magical 270 electoral votes he required to win the presidency.
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Perot did not receive even one electoral vote in his 1992 independent campaign for president.
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Historically, they have been states or part of a bloc of states that have large numbers of electoral votes .
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It takes 270 electoral votes to win.
free
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It called for a free vote on marijuana, and also for possible referendums on abortion and the restoration of capital punishment.
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He has spent his life campaigning for free trade unionism and free votes .
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Members are traditionally allowed a free vote and can not be instructed by their party to follow a line.
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On a free vote the amendment was carried by 292 votes to 246, a majority of forty six.
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The issues of Maastricht - single currency, sovereignty and legal structure - deserve thorough scrutiny and a free vote .
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Who is really winning will not be known before the free vote on the embryo Bill in the new year.
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No wonder, it will be a free vote .
labour
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The ardent left-winger helped launch the Red Wedge pop-meets-politics movement to boost the Labour vote in the 1987 general election.
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The Labour vote suffered a double slippage.
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The Labour vote suffered from increasing local distress caused by the strike which was still in progress.
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Although the Labour vote was still six million, its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910.
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But anti-Tory feeling in a recession-battered area has polarised the Labour vote to his disadvantage.
popular
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Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly, elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term.
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If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.
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Now they've managed to get round the popular vote .
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Equally ironic was the fact that four years earlier Johnson had won the biggest percentage of the popular vote in modern history.
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The President is elected for a five-year term by popular vote .
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In 1992, he ended up with 19 percent of the popular vote .
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The popular vote was, apparently, 4,300,000 for Tilden to 4,036,000 for Hayes.
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Perot garnered 19 percent of the popular vote in the three-way race in 1992&038;.
postal
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Only one had a postal vote .
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Something similar may also have happened in Martin county, where 9,770 postal votes are at stake.
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Voluntary patients can register on the electoral roll and can have postal votes .
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Telephone canvassing, postal votes , the party machine at Labour's Millbank headquarters had all the answers.
single
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Likewise, the single transferable vote system normally operates, and is usually thought of as operating, in multi-member constituencies.
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Its unintended effect was also to crush a succession of much less well-prepared Republican hopefuls before a single vote had been cast.
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That may be what he'd like to say, but the single preferential vote makes it impossible.
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And I fear for the darkness as four Justices anxiously await the single vote necessary to extinguish the light.
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A single vote , wasted votes and used votes Nothing escapes attention so easily as the obvious.
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He was impeached by radical Republicans and escaped by a single vote being found guilty and ousted from office.
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He had just missed being elected a member of this Academy by a single vote .
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Schweiker changed not a single convention delegate vote .
■ NOUN
block
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It is rather like a Labour Party conference, without the block vote .
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That can now change - indeed, if the block vote goes, it will have to change.
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In the end the pro-democracy motion was defeated-crushed under the boot of the union block vote .
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The rumbling row with the unions over ending the block vote is a classic example of its suicidal tendencies.
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Although that would reduce the union block vote more drastically than other options, it would also give both sides a veto.
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A composite motion demanding the straight forward abolition of the block vote was defeated on a show of hands.
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Millions of trade unionists could not simply be represented by the casting of a block vote once a year.
confidence
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No government can fail a confidence vote without suspicion that parties were bought by the opposition.
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On 15 April the government lost a confidence vote in parliament and Gaillard resigned.
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Three Foreign Ministry officials resigned but the government survived a no confidence vote on Jan. 31.
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If the government does lose the showdown, it seems likely that John Major will call a confidence vote 24 hours later.
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Parliament meets for the confidence vote on December 30.
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Haughey dismissed two ministers before the no confidence vote .
■ VERB
adopt
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Ninety-seven percent of those qualified to vote did so and a new democratic constitution was adopted by unanimous vote.
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The Committee adopted by voice vote an amendment offered by Senator Helms to the proposed resolution of ratification.
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It was adopted by 101 votes to none with eight abstentions.
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Resolution 44/115 on chemical weapons was adopted without a vote .
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All three parts of Resolution 45/57 on the prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons were adopted without a vote .
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It was adopted by 75 votes to 20 and 40 abstentions.
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The declaration was adopted by 907 votes to 13, with nine abstentions.
cast
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But in the teacher contest the electors can cast as many votes as they wish.
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We propose the single transferable vote , by which electors cast their votes in multi-member constituencies based on natural communities.
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In 1996, 8,605 people cast votes for mayor, including 6,570 for Owens.
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I had to assert the authority of my casting vote .
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George Thacher cast the lone dissenting vote .
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That is, the value of each vote is equal to the amount owed to the creditor casting that vote.
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His opponent will be lucky to get seventy thousand Republicans interested enough to cast a primary vote .
count
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But this time there was particular urgency about their work as if each woman were counting votes for the two competitors.
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Other members count votes before items reach a public meeting or talk as a quorum of a council subcommittee.
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Others, however, are counting on your vote .
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Otherwise we just elect a few representatives who can totally ignore our wishes for several years after we have counted the votes .
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Nobody bothers to count the votes .
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It is understood the moves were made to make it easier to count the votes and complete the procedure by the weekend.
defeat
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But his bid was defeated by 27 votes to 17.
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The housing project, which had been approved by the town council, was narrowly defeated by public vote .
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Danquah was defeated by over 1100 votes .
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His concern was justified when the no confidence motion was defeated by only 447 votes to 412.
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In parliament, Mr Rabin's Labour Party defeated by 50 votes to 41 a right-wing no-confidence motion prompted by the bloodshed.
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Later on Nov. 23 the no confidence motion was defeated by 201 votes to 159, with six abstentions.
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As well as shortage of time, the bill can be defeated on a vote or it can be talked out.
elect
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Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly, elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term.
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Three of the hardest selling dealers were elected , usually by vote .
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I was duly elected without a vote being needed, on to the Standing Committee, as were five other people.
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Seleznev was elected by 285 votes to two.
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For instance: is the test of a democracy the fact that a government is elected by the votes of the people?
lose
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It would cause an outcry and lose votes including mine.
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In Southern states where Democrats had returned to power, blacks had just lost the vote .
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He saw it as his mission to make sure the Prime Minister did not lose this crucial vote .
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Defence, which lost Labour so many votes in 1983 and 1987, is especially important.
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Last week was the first time Hastert had lost such a procedural vote .
pass
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A drive in a limousine is passed by silent vote .
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The Presidio bill and the huge parks package it was tied to passed by unanimous voice vote .
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The bill was passed by 241 votes to 55, with 55 abstentions.
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A few hours later, it passed by seventy votes to twenty-three.
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Congress formally passed a vote of thanks to the new president.
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The motion to continue proceedings on the bill was passed by 319 votes to 316 with seven deliberate Conservative abstentions.
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With the new dynamic of California politics, getting any ballot measure passed with just Anglo votes is fast becoming impossible.
receive
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New Democracy again abstained so that neither candidate was able to win a two-thirds majority, Alevras receiving 127 votes and Sartzetakis 21.
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All five, for better or worse, have received recent votes of confidence from their respective general managers or team presidents.
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This arose as local businesses paid rates but did not receive a vote .
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Perot did not receive even one electoral vote in his 1992 independent campaign for president.
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They replied that their only concern was survival and whatever politician might help them with that would receive their vote .
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He received 52 votes while the Communist candidate, Thein pe, got only 33 votes.
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Perot received 64 percent of votes cast, while Lamm won 35 percent.
require
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All required a two-thirds majority vote , but achieved less than half.
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The idea of funding the museum with a lease revenue bond, which requires a simple majority vote , may be used.
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The amendment would require a two-thirds vote of Congress to pass tax increase measures.
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Stopping the White House from selling weapons to a foreign country requires a majority vote in both houses of Congress.
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Forty senators could block the bill because Senate rules require 60 votes to take up a conference committee report.
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The bonds, which require a simple majority vote for passage, would result in a rate increase for water customers.
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Ultimately, a valley breakaway could require a vote of the people.
win
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In the precinct where Owens lives, the mayor won six more votes than Brown.
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If Fabre wins the vote in the Federation Executive then he will take over, although no one knows for how long.
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Some have interpreted it as an attempt to win Hispanic votes at the expense of military readiness.
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George W Bush initially won Florida by 2,000 votes .
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After last-minute arm-twisting by Dole, Lott wound up winning by just one vote .
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Mr Gorbachev might well have won such a vote , and added to his formal powers the authority he now lacks.
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Perot garnered 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992 but did not win any electoral votes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cast a vote/ballot
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I had to assert the authority of my casting vote.
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In 1996, 8,605 people cast votes for mayor, including 6,570 for Owens.
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Its voters first cast ballots by mail on a state housing initiative in 1993.
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Just four Republicans cast ballots for some one other than Gingrich, six short of the number needed to block his selection.
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The deadline for casting votes is February 1, 2001.
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The majority of eligible voters said they would rather not cast ballots, leading to the worst percentage voter turnout since 1924.
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They can not accept that I should cast votes on their behalf without first asking each of them what they think.
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Those who do are forced to cast a vote of questionable worth.
majority vote/decision/verdict etc
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And I suppose the way to change the damned constitution is with a majority vote.
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It took the jury almost five hours to reach a majority verdict and acquit her on all three charges.
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Stopping the White House from selling weapons to a foreign country requires a majority vote in both houses of Congress.
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Supposing Yorkshire or Cornwall decided by a majority vote to secede from Britain and elect their own government.
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The majority decision said the cabinet must now report to the legislature on its plan to scrap the plant.
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The reason for this is that government output is determined on the basis of a simple majority vote model.
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Then there is the problem of qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues.
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With a pure majority vote, this would presumably be enacted.
propose a vote of thanks (to sb)
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Chairman Gerald Davies proposed a vote of thanks.
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I did listen to him proposing a vote of thanks occasionally, and I was always glad when he sat down.
sell your vote
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Nine legislators were charged with selling their votes for cash.
vote of no-confidence/no-confidence vote/motion of no-confidence etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the votes were counted before 6 o'clock.
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Both sides expect a close vote .
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Do you think my vote really makes a difference?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clinton carried Ohio and its 21 electoral votes by barely 90, 000 votes in the three-way race in 1992.
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Forte already holds 68.36% of the equity and has rights to 42.12% of the group's total votes.
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In early November Singh's beleaguered government lost a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.
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Perot did not win any states or electoral votes, however.
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Several of the speakers could call for a vote of confidence during the debate.
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So a vote for amendment 27 will be a vote to prevent the social chapter being administered.
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The Umpires' Association had planned to table a motion giving an official vote of support for Lamb.