Use "votes" in a sentence

1. This wasn't a politician looking for votes or a local kid collecting for a sponsored run

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2. The number of votes cast in any election above the total number of all votes cast

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3. playing to the cameras for Joe Public’s votes

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4. Counting down now, counting the votes,

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5. tallying the last few votes, though the secular party had already started rolling

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6. we won majority votes there, too

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7. One of the candidates lost a race by only 29 votes out of 100,000 cast

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8. It was the GDPPP against the ECPSP for Dort votes

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9. Fizzicist, said to my Mum he didn't approve of people canvassing for votes

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10. Well the mayor at least thought he would get a result with an odd number of votes But it took less than five seconds to declare a draw

11. Two votes a piece and one which had a rude comment scrawled upon it

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12. thanks to their votes

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13. What would stop us from simply buying votes?”

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14. Stenarch only has four votes

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15. Stenarch couldn’t buy the other votes,

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16. The votes are still the same

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17. “By the time we’re on the council, I think we’ll have the votes

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18. deciding vote (usually by the chairman) when the votes are otherwise equal

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19. Most often votes are put to a majority

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20. a deciding vote (usually by the chairman) when the votes are otherwise equal

21. Votes dictate, not the other way around”, I remember him saying

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22. In the ancient constitution of the Christian church, the bishop of each diocese was elected by the joint votes of the clergy and of the people of the episcopal city

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23. In Rome, as in all other ancient republics, the poor people were constantly in debt to the rich and the great, who, in order to secure their votes at the annual elections, used to lend them money at exorbitant interest, which, being never paid, soon accumulated into a sum too great either for the debtor to pay, or for any body else to pay for him

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24. In late 1960, however, he showed a great deal of class by refusing to contest the eminently contestable 1960 election in which John Kennedy defeated him with the efforts of thousands of dead voters in Illinois and Texas, without whose votes Kennedy would not have won

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25. The goal is not to keep the poor from starving, but to create dependency, because dependency translates into votes for politicians who play Santa Claus

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26. They appointed a chairman and they took a great many votes

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27. It‘s easier and much more efficient harvesting votes with sweeping gestures and deceptive promises rather than stumping for votes the old-fashioned way by kissing babies and all that other good stuff

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28. What‘s next on the agenda, proposed Statehood for The District of Columbia that will further increase the number of Democratic seats in both houses of Congress on the chance of attracting potential African American voters? This bill is without question a lose/lose proposition for the Republican Party which would better serve its (own) political interests and the interests of the nation by attracting party support on the quality of its (own) party principles rather than its transparent pandering for problematical votes

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29. What follows should give pause to those straddling the fence on this issue: California‘s popular vote (54 electoral votes) for example, could potentially neutralize the combined votes of Delaware (3), Maine (4), Hawaii (4), Alaska (3), New Mexico (5), Nevada (4), Utah (5), Idaho (4), Montana (3), Wyoming (3), North Dakota (3), South Da kota (3), Vermont (3), New Hampshire (4), and Rhode Island (4) or fifteen states in all presently under the ―protection‖ of the E

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30. They learned from the Chahora Bassa hydro-electric scheme in Mozambique where they lost a lot of money and no doubt votes

31. But they clearly can be either isolated, or pander to the votes of those who are, to allow moral blindness and callousness that causes many deaths to continue

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32. But he got virtually no votes at the end of the Democratic Convention

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33. Every president from Ford to Obama has publicly pledged to allow Puerto Rico to determine its own future, as a commonwealth, independent, or a state Both major parties included Guam, Puerto Rico, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands in their presidential primaries starting in 1976, and most major candidates have campaigned for their votes

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34. That did not stop him from running for president from prison, the only candidate to ever do so, and still getting over a million votes

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35. Lincoln replied acidly, “I could not afford to hang more men for votes

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36. Johnson chose what was right over what would get his party votes, and deserves credit for that

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37. This would be the result that several polls had indicated prior to the elections and as the absentee votes would prove that gave in fact a 13% victory to the Partido Popular over its opposition the PSOE

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38. Nevertheless, the votes of March 14 gave the power to the PSOE

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39. The article appeared in the November 11 edition of that weekly under the title: The candidate who has received most votes in history:

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40. “I have a feeling that Bush will win with more than 5% of the votes, and all the lawyers will have to pick up their suitcases and go back to their homes without glory and without money

41. According to the most recent numbers of the Los Angeles Times, Bush has obtained 59,117,382 (52% of the popular vote) and 286 electoral votes (270 electoral votes are needed to win the election)

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42. As for Kerry, he has received 55,435,808 (48% of the popular vote) and 252 electoral votes

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43. million votes, the president will stand in the annals as the candidate who has received the greatest number of votes in history

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44. Clinton, for instance, was elected twice by plurality only; that is to say with less than 50% of the votes cast

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45. Hoping to win Democratic votes, Lincoln replaced Hamlin with Johnson, a Democrat from the south

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46. There were four major candidates, and none of them won enough votes to be declared the winner

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47. Jackson had the most popular (40%) and electoral (99 of the 133 needed) votes and so believed he should have been chosen

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48. ) Though Democrats had more popular and electoral votes, electors in several states ignored the popular vote and switched their vote

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49. The election was extremely close, Rutherford only winning by 3,000 votes

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50. She supported the war with numerous votes, even after most of her own party opposed it

51. Immediately in the aftermath of 9-11, the Patriot Act was rammed through with one of the fastest votes in US history given how complex the law was

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52. Roosevelt actually got more votes than the Republican candidate Taft, but Democrat Woodrow Wilson won

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53. Though the Progressives broke up by next election, many of their ideas became law, including recalls, referendums, primaries, income tax, direct election of senators, votes for women, and the eight hour workday

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54. debated or even read by the Democrat controlled Congress with no Republican votes

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55. “Michigan airport maintenance deal” and all of those votes were obtained by granting money or

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56. In 2003 there were 85 yes or no votes taken in the UN

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57. possesses 42% of the valid votes

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58. The provisions of sunset provisos and reauthorization votes made sense to him, since the Act might be abused by corrupt officials

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59. The governor who told Lott he didn’t know of a single defensive use of a gun was the same guy who went to Florida to help get the military votes disqualified in the 2000 presidential election

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60. accommodating illegal immigrants through an amnesty plan will win votes from those so accommodated, but they underestimate the degree of disaffection such a policy would

61. Perot’s votes allowed Bill Clinton to be elected with forty-three percent of the popular vote

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62. ’ In one of these elections he received six percent of the votes, said to be the all-time high in America’s history for a Socialist candidate

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63. Those who place their faith in them with their votes wonder later about the Beltway Malady

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64. election was pointed out to him, he stated he couldn’t justify hanging people for votes

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65. Washington’s latest governor suddenly shows up with 133 extra votes on

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66. They’ll be involved in votes but that’s about it

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67. her children, 26 she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children, 27 did not lean to that which

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68. When the public votes with its radio dial for what it wants to hear the liberal extreme loses the vote

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69. When the Democrats subsequently lost the election of 2004 by over three million votes, the cries of unreasoned hate, amplified by a second defeat at the hands of the same enemy, resonated in even greater intensity

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70. That includes the Senate rule requiring the magic 60 votes to stop a filibuster that the Democrats lost when Brown’s election reduced their majority to 59

71. So the Democrats changed the rules, and used the now infamous “reconciliation” process, which requires only 51 votes in the Senate, to squeak Obamacare through, When sent back to the House, as required, Ms

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72. Pelosi won a squeaker there too, by five votes

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73. In return the unions would provide union money, support, and votes for the Democrats

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74. Yet these brutal mobs also gave the State its required votes,

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75. These shares are considered social signals (votes) and can add some weight to links in search rankings

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76. However, most telling was the fact that Nixon drew only 6 votes

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77. Through votes in those countries and open comments during meetings with Mr

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78. tial elections, when its candidate, Debs, received 900,000 votes

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79. The New Deal in the 1930s tended to draw votes away from the party

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80. This party had some early success in local elections in Massachusetts, and Debs received about 96,000 votes as its presidential candidate in 1900

81. 1904 and 1908, received 900,672 votes (6 percent of the popular

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82. movement, he attracted a mere one hundred thousand votes

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83. years later, he won nearly a million votes

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84. Today’s system measures individual votes on parochial spending bills, but

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85. There were only eleven votes against the Social Security Act of 1935

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86. They constantly challenged military votes that were clearly legitimate, but they were able to disqualify them on a technicality

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87. That meant that only 930 votes needed to be won by Gore

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88. “When votes are cast, we count them

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89. The Florida Supreme Court ask Gore’s lawyers if they wanted a state-wide hand count of all votes, the Gore lawyers said they only wanted the hand count in the three Democratic counties listed previously

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90. “I believe that the right to vote and the obligation to count all the votes should be promoted not just in the Middle East, but in the

91. Roosevelt to appoint six New Deal justices to nullify the votes on the Court of six sitting judges who were 70 years or older

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92. linkage showing that 95% of all the votes made in Congress are

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93. primary campaign, which he won by only 889 votes, were illegal

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94. Voting 57-41, the Senate fell three votes short of the 60 needed to cut off debate and move to consider a Republican proposal that would have

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95. ” During late-night Congressional sessions, Representatives and Senators often spend time between votes in the private Republican and Democratic clubs or any of a

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96. who has consistently attacked President Bush and votes most of the time with the Democrats

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97. Chaffee votes with the Democrats anyway and the rules of the Senate are such that the minority party (as long as they have 41 members) can control the Senate (as the Democratic

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98. spending increases, votes to cut spending that actually save no money, and legislative gimmicks that circumvent Congress’s own spending

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99. An even greater abuse of the legislative process is the leadership’s practice of producing legislation and then forcing votes almost

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