How To Use Allot In A Sentence
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‘In the absence of those assurances, we will have no choice but to ballot for industrial action,’ he said.
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If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races.
CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008
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I am thinking about taking one row of raspberries away, maybe exchange the other one as well for a newer kind with bigger berries in, so we can have a bit more room for flowers along the allotment border.
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We would have make it earlier, but I procrastinated with completed and sealed ballots sitting on my desk for a couple of days -- no good excuse, but the reminders to spare the GOTC callers (and ourselves) reminder calls goosed me into action.
BlueOregon
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The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
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A copyreader might not find it perfect, for the assault is allotted too much space and the pursuit too little, but it tells the story in its baldest aspect.
Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
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He dipped his big toe in indelible ink to stamp the ballot paper.
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Nutty sweetbreads, bitter greens, gently brash shallots, and velvety chanterelles suffuse farfalle in well-oiled repertory.
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Edward, TMS inbox: "0312 Isotope is not the word you're looking for - you are thinking of allotrope.
BBC News - Home
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The cabin crews have balloted for industrial action and a massive ‘yes’ vote is expected.
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Secret ballot enables the voters to express their free will on the candidates without any restriction.
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In the end, despite these tight controls, the US-backed generals failed to win a majority of the vote, securing a plurality only through frenzied last minute stuffing of the ballot boxes.
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Voting will be by secret ballot.
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The Iranian voting public put a hardliner and a conservative pragmatist into a run-off election with their ballots on Friday.
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Journalists in Shropshire are threatening to ballot for industrial action claiming managers are refusing to answer their questions about job cuts.
Strike threat at the Shropshire Star
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The result of the strike ballot will be known tomorrow morning.
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Graphite is one of the four allotropic forms of carbon; the other three are amorphous carbon, diamond, and fullerene.
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As the ballot result was due, the company offered to scrap Saturday working for subs and reporters as a concession.
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Your brother has a dangerous condition called tetralogy of Fallot.
GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL
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Farm shops go from strength to strength and growing vegetables in allotments is fashionable.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Chicago, for instance, 7 percent of votes cast went uncounted due to ballot errors.
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A certain nutrition and health function of transgenic metallothionein mushroom on ICR mice was studied in this paper.
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Serve the oysters topped with the shallot relish and lemon wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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As expected the bill will introduce a 50 per cent turnout threshold for strike ballots.
Times, Sunday Times
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The paper ballots will be checked at election offices while votes recorded in the machines will be examined at an army base.
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The state's intentions, of using the entire coastline for desalination, were revealed when chief minister Ashok Chavan recently instructed officials to explore the idea of allotting land to private parties for setting up desalination plants on design, build, operate and transfer basis.
Daily News & Analysis
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Members ballot for the right to introduce bills on Fridays allocated to this purpose.
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The election of the government is carried out by secret ballot.
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Each Land was allotted one representative per 750,000 of population with an additional member for each remainder over 200,000.
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The result of the strike ballot will be known tomorrow morning.
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Cabbages and cauliflowers have to go from Jubilee Allotment gardens, Kendal, so the Cumbria Education Department can raise a crop of healthy children.
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Some middle-class voters have supported the Labour Party and about one-third of working-class voters have traditionally cast their ballots for Conservative candidates.
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But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery.
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Save Our Secret Ballot amendments prevent adoption of card-check laws by other states—but the NLRB's lawsuits could sweep those protections aside as well.
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A former minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, another lawmaker and a top former bureaucrat are in jail facing charges of corruption in a 2008 allotment of airwave to carry telephone signals.
Coal India's Overseas Plans on Hold
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But it is evident that this is but one of many passages where Indra by implication is compared to the sun; and comparisons do not indicate allotropy.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
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On the night of June 11-12, a group of party elders gathered in "a smoke-filled room" in the Blackstone Hotel and made the deal that brought Harding the nomination on the tenth ballot.
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We should put it to a ballot.
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Move on to complex appetizers like pheasant ballottine, a cylinder of braised meat surrounded by a savoury sauce and tiny little apples.
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The new tenants are being put into occupation on probation; they are allotees of land and will not be able to claim possessive rights until the Land Commission is satisfied that they are capable farmers, and have proved their capacity to make productive use of th eland and furnish the regular payments that will amortise the purchase costs.
G.K.'s Weekly - Land Policy of Ireland
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When you're ready to assemble the canapés, unroll the ballottines and cut each into 2cm-thick slices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dame Gourlay, with two of her contemporaries, the same who assisted at Alice's late-wake, seated apart upon a flat monument, or "through-stane," sate enviously comparing the shares which had been allotted to them in dividing the dole.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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The spirit of my father grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it; therefore allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes.
Act I. Scene I. As You Like It
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Speaking from the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, where the ballot was held, CJ de Mooi, the president of the English Chess Federation, said: It was unbelievable.
Chess world shocked as Karpov fails to capture top job
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Although I got hundreds of supportive signatures, I could not get my name printed on the ballot.
A Beijinger's Fight to Run for Office
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Much of the introductory chapter consists of broad generalizations about Indians, culture areas, reservations, and allotment.
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The result of the ballot showed that nurses were not in favour or a strike.
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To divide and assign according to a plan ; allot.
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Besides, to acquire a holding, ‘the standard of farm competence required was very modest’ (so modest in fact as to necessitate in his opinion that each allottee be placed under an instructor).
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It consisted of six points: universal male suffrage, vote by ballot, equal representation, abolition of the property qualification to sit in Parliament and payment of Members of Parliament.
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The people make their wishes known through the ballot box.
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Figures on how many had voted were not available as many Americans would have cast their ballot through their home-state election offices, said the consulate.
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In London people will get three ballot papers and five votes on 10 June.
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The union accused employers of trying to make last-minute changes to the deal and warned that its 55,000 members could be balloted again for a fresh bout of industrial action.
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And basically, he applied the same standard we did, and that is, if there was some kind of indentation that was consistent throughout the ballot -- didn't have to cover the whole ballot, but as long as there was enough to show a pattern that this is how the voter voted, then we would go ahead and count that as a vote.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Florida Supreme Court Grants Gore Campaign a Reprieve - December 8, 2000
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The plot is thus: Madame Fate, a mysterious fortune teller, has foreseen her own death through her crystal ball with only 24 hours before the allotted hour.
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Stir the petits pois and parsley into the shallots, then add the wine and enough stock to just cover.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also the hiring out by a rural landowner of allotment gardens can cause planning problems.
Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
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Although I've grown my fair share of veg from the slightly more unusual end of the allotment crop market, such as cardoons, that doesn't mean I've grown all the conventional varieties you'll find on the plot.
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Saute a selection of mushrooms with butter and chopped shallots and garlic.
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She allots roles only towards the end, so that ‘every girl knows the play, and knows it well‘.
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Supreme Court after that court criticized Florida for lacking what they called a unified standard of counting ballots.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Florida Gov. Jeb Bush Presides Over Electoral Vote Casting in Tallahassee - December 18, 2000
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It has become the most famous and hotly disputed California ballot measure since Proposition 13 cut property taxes in 1978.
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It was the last national convention that required more than a single ballot to nominate a presidential candidate.
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Michigan earlier this week raised the prospect of staging a so-called firehouse caucus at which voters cast ballots during the course of a day rather than gathering at a town-hall meeting in the evening, as most caucuses do.
Private Funds Could
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Rumours of ballot-rigging discouraged many from voting.
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The Finn had asked the French high court to guarantee a fair ballot.
Times, Sunday Times
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At least 996 delegates are needed to ensure a nomination on the first ballot, a party spokesman said.
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The Fishwife herself, who gave me the young plants, says that her own crop failed – the tomatoes caught blight from the potatoes in her allotment and had to be ripped up and thrown away.
Archive 2009-09-01
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However, subsequent independent surveys of actual ballots indicated a dramatic shift, with Mr Fujimori nearing a first-round victory.
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Much of the human population there lacks the essentials, so of course homeless dogs and cats are allotted next to nothing.
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After Ojibwa families took their allotments, unallotted land on reservations was then sold to the public.
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Last April's NUT annual conference unanimously voted to ballot members on a boycott of the SAT's.
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Since she supported none of the candidates, she spoiled her ballot paper.
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The rabbit ballotine was so plain as to be almost unpleasant.
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Does the President have an opinion on which statute takes precedence here in relation to the postmarking of the ballots?
Press Briefing By Jake Siewert
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The European Commission can confirm that Microsoft has proposed a consumer ballot screen as a solution to the pending antitrust case, " it said in a statement.
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For the first ballot each voter will indicate one choice from the candidates listed. 12.
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When people decide to undertake an initiative, they naively think that all they have to do is go out and collect the requisite number of signatures and then presto you're on the ballot-wrong.
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The hopes of the people have been dashed too many times to believe that they can rid the country of the ruling clique with the ballot.
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Using a Microplane grater, zest about half of one lemon into the bowl with the shallots.
Food-World Royalty
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I should also note that he did a fine job of stuffing the ballot box with phony phone calls to Smith to make him look he supported the draft.
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The duty-free allotment is per capita, not per stirpes.
What stuff
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There should be a seven-day cooling-off period between a strike ballot and industrial action.
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I voted for her on the first ballot.
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They feared that if only "undercounted" ballots were examined, the results would be skewed to favor Gore.
War Of The Weary
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The government too had to be blamed as a portion of the lake was allotted for sale.
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Balloting for strike action began last week.
The Sun
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Barely one in three will bother to cast a ballot on February 26th.
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The Green Party has little financial backing and is using its scarce resources to mount ballot-petition drives in selected states.
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For those individuals committed to a daily roughage allotment, the Manchester cobb salad is a more-than-satisfactory dish.
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Head teachers are to vote for the first time on a ballot on industrial action today.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apart from some ‘legislators-at-large’, however, all the legislators were elected by ballot.
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Less good news, however, is the very low proportion of people who chose to go the polling station to exercise their democratic right to cast a ballot.
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An allotment amnesty is to be held to allow unregistered holders to turn in their plots to be correctly recorded.
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Four local newspaper chapels have now voted for strike ballots.
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The firm is looking at helping to rescue local wildlife and investing in an allotment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The question will appear on the ballot as Prop 107.
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At least a dozen councils are yet to supply ballot packs to the Royal Mail ready for posting.
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Take out the pancetta pieces, add a slug of olive oil and sweat the shallots until they are soft and translucent.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a vacillating economy it is impossible to calculate resource allotment.
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And if these ballots have indentations, punctures, dents on them - you know, the wind didn't make them, people came to the polls and people made those marks on those ballots.
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carbon and sulfur and phosphorus are allotropic elements
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Stir-fry until crispy while you peel and finely chop the shallots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jamie ordered fillet of beef wrapped in pancetta with port, shallot and foie gras ravioli, while I chose the loin of venison with fresh sage and honeyed Armagnac sweetbreads.
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Gently heat oil in sauté pan and add shallots; sweat over low heat five minutes.
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Add the panko, shallot, cheese, and corn into the crab meat.
Anneli Rufus: SPAM Pie and Other Cooking Competition Winners
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Unions confirmed last week they were already planning timetables for strike ballots if the government does not back down.
Times, Sunday Times
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I would relish the opportunity, as I placed my cross on the ballot paper, to think of wiping the permanently smug, self-satisfied smirk from his arrogant, squirrel-cheeked, toffee-nosed features.
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The ballot is the primary symbol of civic duty.
Exploring language (6th edn)
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Cushing, a first-round draft pick out of Southern California, was a runaway winner for the rookie award in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the league.
AP: Texans' Brian Cushing tested positive for HCG
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Trade unions are also required to hold a ballot to confirm that its members wish to make donations to political parties.
Business Studies Basic Facts
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There was a large ballot.
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It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
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All four candidates plan to cross-file on both the Democratic and Republican ballots in the primary.
Waynesboro Record Herald Homepage RSS
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The arrogation of such power to the judges would usurp those functions of government, which are controlled and distributed by powers whose authority is derived from the ballot box.
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The Broward County Canvassing Board was able to identify a vote for president in essentially 1 out of every 4 of the ballots that the canvassing board looked at that had started out as an undervote or nonvote.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Gore Legal Legal Team Holds News Briefing - November 30, 2000
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They told us to put the red ballot into envelopes and throw the green ones into the wastebasket.
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Also on the ballot paper was the one candidate, Lucy Courtney, for the post of senior vice-president.
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The major focus of reform bills would require supermajorities of two-thirds or even three-fifths of voters to approve a constitutional amendment at the ballot box before it would become law.
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I would advise all residents who have considered renting an allotment to ‘come and have a grow’.
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Bolton election staff have started opening postal ballots already cast by voters in the General Election.
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Sprinkle with the shallot and top with the strips of salmon.
Haute Coals: Frilly Grilling on the Backyard BBQ
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I'm an impatient person, which can be a problem when you're trying to grow fruit and vegetables on an allotment.
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Ballot Proposition 4: Public Acknow-ledgement of God
The Facts: News
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Conclusion: Xianggui pill can restrain significantly the growth of allotopia intima tissue, and has apparently adjustment to the cytokine.
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By May 30, the commission will hold a draw to decide the order in which parties will be listed on the ballot.
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Plans to transfer thousands of council homes into the hands of not-for-profit landlords could be put to six public ballots.
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The result of the strike ballot will be known tomorrow morning.
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When you have received your ballot paper, mark your vote, get someone to sign the declaration and return both documents in the prepaid envelope.
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Hutchinson is constrained by an Arkansas ballot initiative in his state to vote only for the term-limit measure voters there approved.
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Do you allot the suffering to him alone, fending it off from God the Word to avoid God's being declared passible?
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Except in the case of conviction for a criminal offence, there is no mechanism for removing them except at the ballot box.
Times, Sunday Times
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Richards Bay Minerals in the KwaZulu/Natal are to be balloted on stk i over wages and working conditions, the union said in a statement on Tuesday.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The local Nalgo branch has called a general meeting for tomorrow when members will be balloted on whether to withdraw their labour.
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The Ticket Window random draw ballot for individual matches at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 is now complete.
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It was invariably fresh from local allotments or no farther away than the next county.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are still finding uncounted ballots in Washington state from last fall's gubernatorial election.
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I was warned that senators - as is politicians' wont everywhere - like to speak for most of their allotted time, leaving only a small gap for an answer.
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Its oysters with a raspberry shallot vinegar and lemon and mussels in a garlicky white wine sauce are renowned.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was an election by secret ballot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cook two minutes, then add galangal, shallots, curry paste and curry powder.
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‘The second ballot would contain party lists of candidates, and the elector would vote for the party of their choice,’ he said.
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You can count the number of unopened/uncast ballots at the end of the night, compare them to the number of cast/spoiled ballots, and know that you finished with the same number you started with.
Tim Hugo's Future Chaos
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Ballots substitute for bullets in venting internal frustrations.
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You could also try bribing a friend with an allotment.
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If you allot your time, you can accomplish fantastic things.
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Lay the stuffed lamb shoulder on top and surround with the carrots and shallots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Citizenship was granted to all allottees and to others who adopted the ‘habits of civilized life.’
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He has tallied the result of the ballot.
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A person's membership may be revoked for cause, other than nonpayment of dues, by a two-thirds vote by ballot of the Board of Directors.
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All candidate cities that meet minimum requirements and evaluation criteria to take part in final ballot.
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He praised the smooth running of the election, and denied reports that people had been forced to cast their ballots.
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The controversy is heating up just days after voters overwhelmingly turned down a ballot proposition to increase mountain lion hunting.
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A suspended election would involve extraordinary efforts to secure and protect ballots and voting systems.
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It was decided to hold a ballot of all party members.
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It came in his mind to bid his henchmen a hall uprear, ia master mead-house, mightier far than ever was seen by the sons of earth, and within it, then, to old and young he would all allot that the Lord had sent him, save only the land and the lives of his men.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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Saute the shallot slices, minced garlic and ground pepper until aromatic, add crab pieces, stir - fry.
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Election boards will count the ballots by hand.
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Cut the cauliflower into small florets and add to the shallots along with the stock.
Times, Sunday Times
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These different forms of the same element are called _allotropic states_ or _forms_ of the element.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry
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This is a subject close to my heart and I will do whatever is within my power to fight for the rights of … Bit ropey on the literacy side of things, what with ‘allot’ being a verb meaning to allocate or hand out.
Literacy News – 880th Edition « News « Literacy News
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The club members decided in a ballot to suspend the captain.
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Our allotted hour has long since elapsed, but she is in no hurry to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ballot is taking time to organise , concedes a GMB spokesman.
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Independent monitors have asked the election commission to annul the results in districts where armed gangs shot at voters, snatched and burned ballots, and blocked access to the polls with vehicles and felled trees.
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Conductors are already in dispute with the company, while station and clerical staff are being balloted for industrial action.
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In Florida, the way incomplete or otherwise invalidated ballots are "rectified" is that AFTER the election, the Boards of Elections mail back the ballots & tell the (non) voters what they did wrong.
Franken Camp: Don't Start The Recount Yet!
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Ballots are sent to ski writers and past honored members who vote on who they think should be in the hall.
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This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on
A Start in Life
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Twelve MPs attended the meeting and four who were unable to be there sent votes by secret ballot.
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They had already voted for him at the first ballot.
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They were allotted three meals a day, but there was a catch: their hands never came out of restraints.
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Yaki had tried to broker a compromise earlier this year to keep the initiative off the ballot.
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A signature-revocation effort by opponents made a dent in the final tally but was not enough to keep the initiative off the ballot.
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To prepare, pour 250 ml white wine vinegar into a pan, add ½ small shallot, sliced, a blade of mace and ¼ teaspoon black peppercorns.
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When the player lands on a square, he or she has to put the allotted amount of money in the piggy bank.
Times, Sunday Times
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NEW YORK -- The voting for the 2009 NFL Comeback Player of the Year selected by the Associated Press in balloting by a nationwide panel of the media:
Patriots' Tom Brady named AP's NFL comeback player of year
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And a leader can be toppled any moment by a simple ballot of the party's MPs.
Times, Sunday Times
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One early vote the Democrats were happy to advertise was that of President George Bush, casting his Texas absentee ballot for John McCain last week.
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Copyright has become an election issue in Canada, and with the federal election looming on the 28th (I've cast my absentee ballot, for Olivia Chow, and have my fingers crossed for a nation run as well as Toronto Layton's district in Toronto was under Jack Layton) the copyfight is heating up back in my homeland.
Boing Boing: June 13, 2004 - June 19, 2004 Archives
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Khalif may be an unlikely candidate. But few of the women on the ballot are striding gung ho into the spotlight.
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In fact, the final outcome of the vote, like that of a slightly more publicized election, was delayed by absentee votes and a recount of contested ballots.
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Peter from Aston Rowant e-mails in on that allotrope business.
BBC News - Home
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Melt remaining butter in a pan and fry parsnip, carrots and shallots for five to six minutes.
The Sun
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Long queues formed in many areas and a number of voters said that they waited all night to cast ballots.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's Easter weekend, and I don't have long to post because there is serious garden / allotment pootling to be done.
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When they step into the ballot box come election time.
The Sun
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Megawati shouted to her supporters while demonstrating how to punch ballot papers for her party's number and logo of a bull with a white nose at a soccer field in the town of Gianyar.
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Stir the unrinsed rice into the shallot, continuing until all the grains are buttery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chicken with shallot vinaigrette and green salad Finely chopped shallot has an uplifting effect on roast chicken.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peel and finely chop the shallots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soak the diced shallot in the red wine vinegar for 30 minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The turnout for the ballot was 68 per cent, and of those, the vote was 2,947 in favour of action and 2,246 against.
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Pour the cooking liquor and shallots into a small saucepan and add the crème fraîche.
Times, Sunday Times
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Posted on: Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 12: 03 CST The antibiotic, called azithromycin, is effective in treating infections such as syphilis, Chlamydia and Ureaplasma urealyticum - a vaccine clinics as their vaccine allotments allow.
WN.com - Articles related to Study Simulates Car Crashes Involving Pregnant Women
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That's not all - the party plans to use paper ballots rather than voting machines in order to keep down costs.
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In the event of a share issue a bank may handle the advertisement, application and allotment of shares.
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Supporters of some candidates, it is alleged, are demanding householders hand over the postal ballot papers so they can fill them in themselves.
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No society which believes in democratic values can allow the ballot box to be overridden by the bomb and the bullet.
