How To Use Vote In A Sentence
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A few uncounted votes or a few thousand voters turned away can be the difference between a national victory or not.
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Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
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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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A few weeks before the vote on November 7, the buzz goes, Cheney will announce his resignation, ostensibly because of signs of new trouble with his ticker.
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On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
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He said disputes and votes being called on the order of business were causing needless disruption.
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A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. Walt Disney
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Associate members do not have the right to vote.
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We filter all the e-mails in the evening to verify whether any bogus votes are cast.
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Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then.
"I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
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A third-party group headed by a GOP operative is out with a new Nevada ad spot encouraging Latinos in the state not to cast votes in this year's midterm elections.
GOP-Linked 'Latinos For Reform' Airs Nevada Ads Urging Hispanics Not To Vote (VIDEO)
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One page of the menu is devoted to cheeses (domestic and imported), another to charcuterie, salads, meat and fish, the third to items from the wood-burning oven.
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But he railed against subsidies for ethanol producers and other provisions of the bill that he called unneeded, unnecessary, unwanted sweeteners ' ' to win votes for the package.
Tax-Cut Bill Draws Wide Support in Senate
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Would you care to comment on why you voted against the new housing project?
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How long did it take for women to get the right to vote?
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Records, is among the thousands of devoted followers who have raised figure skating to new heights of popularity.
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After this she was not strong enough to work in interventional cardiology and devoted herself to clinical and diagnostic cardiology.
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I see his sensibility as basically that of an earlier age: he is a chivalric knight devoted to his lady; this devotion is like that of a medieval Christian who lives in the world yet profoundly venerates the Virgin Mary.
Sena Jeter Naslund - An interview with author
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In 1860 ￡2-10-0 was voted for the purchase of Gaelic books; the catalogue of 1865 contained 25 titles.
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Based on the available methods, this paper devoted to more extensive researches of reliability methods and reliability growth methods. The main innovations are listed as follows.
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To influence the vote one way or the other.
The Sun
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The vote fell short of the majority needed for an override of the Governor's veto.
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Greg Wood is one of only 150 men and women in this country to devote themselves to the welfare of our horses' gnashers.
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Some openly jeered and shouted in disgust when the final vote tally was announced.
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So of course city-dwellers voted for someone who promised more government welfare.
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At least half of the country's population voted, thereby validating the result.
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Selig said relocation of the team is subject to certain contingencies, including a formal vote (three-quarters needed) of ownership at the next owners meetings Nov. 17-18 in Chicago.
USATODAY.com - Selig confirms Expos' move
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Rogan Ward/Reuters A poll worker waited for voters to arrive at a Nkandla, South Africa, polling site Wednesday.
Voters in South Africa Head to Polls
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The tension has been telling on both sides as campaign strategists struggle to identify potential winning themes, not to mention winning voters, in their headlong sprint to the finish.
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The cabin crews have balloted for industrial action and a massive ‘yes’ vote is expected.
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It's time for the Senate to release him from legal limbo and give his nomination a final vote by simple majority.
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When the polls closed for the day at 5.30 pm university officials said nearly 5,000 people had cast their votes.
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The party is struggling to win back voters who have been alienated by recent scandals.
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Why, I'm sure that Saint John the Do-As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do Populist's votes had nothing to do with the corporate interests in North Carolina that he might find necessary to court later (or pay back for an earlier campaign donation).
Tonight: The Jefferson-Jackson Dinner
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Secret ballot enables the voters to express their free will on the candidates without any restriction.
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A typical write-up of last August's vote in the New York Times, for example, focused on the way the president had "outmaneuvered" the Democrats.
Why Obama's Support For FISA Cave-In Is Such A Downer
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Across the street, protesters denounced what they called a fraudulent vote and urged a boycott.
Undefined
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There is no doubt that the voters wanted to shake up the status quo and they have done this by creating what is almost a hung parliament.
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After too much airtime is devoted to the quartet's training, the contest itself throws up an unexpected hero.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rivlin said that anti-immigration rhetoric has galvanized immigrant voters, bringing them to the streets in protest and to the polling booth.
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The company's shareholders have voted to remove the executive board.
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Thirty-six hours before his execution, Tennessee judges voted to reconsider his case.
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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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The House voted to impose a one-year moratorium on nuclear testing.
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Here is strong evidence of the need to reform the electoral system so every vote counts.
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The party aims to attract votes from the business and professional communities, which want a faster pace of political reform.
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She gave up work to devote more time to her children.
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The city gave the telco an interim revocable permit earlier this year, but officials insisted a city charter requires that the franchise be voted on by residents.
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Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped.
Undefined
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This keeps getting censored by the Lamontster scrub out the truth squads .. he has to protect his propagandists for hire, as he's too chickenhearted to let the CT voters decide for themselves
CT-SEN: Lamont Hits Back At Lieberman Terror Slam
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The truth is we'll never know for sure who would have been better, but the simple fact that party leaders are unwilling to allow its voters to hash these questions out for themselves is troubling.
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The vote yesterday appears to mark something of a turning point in the war.
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The Green vote looks likely to increase again.
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This could still change because votes in one Victoria seat were being recounted.
Times, Sunday Times
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[H] adrian be living on, mud and rocks no longer be a physical wall in upper Ruralshire, but like derivatives, the way to take an asset and mystify them so that the common members of Pee can still have voters. on March 26, 2009 at 8: 50 pm | Reply nightjack
Location, location, location. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Shocked by the results of the elections, they now want to challenge the validity of the vote.
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Finally, the Clerk involves voters in facilitating not only recounts and redundant checks but revotes as well.
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After the main presentations, an hour will be devoted to breakout sessions in which executive development hurdles and needs would be explored.
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Smith who was against the League and Jones who was against Article X, and Brown who was against Mr. Wilson and all his works, each for his own reason, all in the name of more or less the same symbolic phrase, register a vote _against_ the Democrats by voting for the
Public Opinion
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He's torn between his distrust and dislike of the press and his need to galvanise voters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout.
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The devotees were also treated for their excruciating pain in their shoulders, neck, back, thighs, knees, calves, ankle and foot.
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Whoever wins government will have to depend on the support of independents, many of whom will have been elected with as little as 10 to 20 percent of the vote in their electorates.
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For the treaty to win final approval, a two-thirds majority of the Senate must vote for ratification, and the treaty must also win approval in the Russian Duma.
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The Social Economy Network Cooperative Basel is a democratic network in which each member organization has one vote.
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they gave the chairman a vote of confidence
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It is just like a Muhammadan to take a man's money and then vote the wrong way.
Nicholas von Hoffman: Surprise, Surprise!
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In addition to weekly episodes of our human rights broadcast, we were also producing 'fortnightly' (a word we had picked up from Anita and begun to employ widely!) editions of Body Shop Television -- a unique, in-store television magazine devoted to internal communication among Body Shop employees and managers.
Rory O'Connor: There Was Nothing Like This Dame
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I can vote for myself thank you grandaddy or granmomma statesperson!!
Angry Clinton supporters tell party leaders: 'Let's go McCain!'
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In Chicago, for instance, 7 percent of votes cast went uncounted due to ballot errors.
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An unexpected call for a no-confidence vote against Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung over his handling of a debt crisis at one of Vietnam's biggest state-owned firms shows that the political fallout from the country's worst-ever financial scandal might just be starting, analysts say.
Vietnamese Premier Faces Fallout on Vinashin
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Rupert was naughty in that he voted undirected proxies and he didn't answer the question when Crikey asked that he not do this given that he had a conflict of interest and wasn't voting his own stake.
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But despite these delays, the experienced tallymen will be watching the boxes and each party will allocate different people to count the votes being put into the relevant piles.
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This circumstance makes this most recent vote doubly frustrating.
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I stumbled over the fallen coon who had pivoted me, ducked a swat from a club, dived between a bull's legs, and was free.
Some Adventures With the Police
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He said it was unlikely the proposals would be put to a vote because ideally unanimous acceptance would be required.
Times, Sunday Times
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They expect no joy from the vote itself.
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I vote that we all go to Holland immediately.
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One of the silly arguments of those deafening poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes.
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There's no doubt that this support has come from the middle class Labour vote.
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He called the advertising a blatant attempt to buy votes for the coming election.
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Health and education are the sort of bread-and-butter issues that people vote on.
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“If Senator Obama doesn't have time to give Wisconsin voters 90 minutes on the issues, he's going to have a difficult time explaining that,” Penn said, noting HRC is running a tv ad in the cheese-head state to that effect.
Obama Claims the (Thorny) Crown - Swampland - TIME.com
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The vote is likely to be postponed to a specially convened synod in November.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle, and never devoted any conscious thought to him.
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As at the last election, one percent of voters had active party membership, with the biggest age bracket listed as those over 60.
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It's been well noted at how the Lib Dems would do just about anything to win a vote but choosing a stripogram/kissogram to stand as councillor to rein in the votes is quite something!
Stripping Lib Dems
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The budget devoted $29 billion to the war on terrorism and $9 billion to unconventional arms like pilotless spy planes carrying missiles and laser communications system for troops.
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These packages are voted without numbers attached.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Indian Prime Minister, V P Singh, lost a vote of confidence in the Indian parliament.
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But this year, when precisely the same measure came up for a required second vote, it was defeated by a thumping margin of 157 to 39.
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I think we can eliminate blacks, women, and the younger voter from our enquiries.
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But I was told that there, in fact, was those kind of indentures in the second column also, the vote for U.S. S.nator.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Leon County Circuit Court Hears Arguments in Election 2000 Contest - December 2, 2000
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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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Failure to approve them in a vote this week could block the next tranche of €3 billion from international creditors.
Times, Sunday Times
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I give more credit to the nameless women who settled the frontier and thus earned the right to vote in western states.
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If the present rules were retained, the entry of many relatively smaller and economically weak countries would either paralyse the EU completely, or the smaller countries could outvote the larger ones.
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WASHINGTON (RNS) As Democrats conduct a grim postmortem on Tuesday's (Nov. 2) elections, some liberal leaders say one diagnosis is already clear: the party's outreach to religious voters was lifeless from the start.
Have Democrats Lost Faith In Faith-Based Outreach?
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Greg, Could you post a list of the Democrat-cowards who were frighted off by the Decider's "you are helping terrorists" crap and voted for that legislation so that they could join the Iraqi legislature on vacation?
Poll: Bush Approval Soars All The Way Up To 36%
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This answer, you'll see by the enclosed news paper, was unanimously voted to be not satisfactory to the Town, and the next day, on Mr. Hutchinson's sending into the Town Meeting an answer of the same purport, both his and ours were voted to be daringly affrontive to the
Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
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A poll of 700 female registered voters found that 56% favor full abortion rights.
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But he is also a devotee of literalist "textualism" in interpreting laws.
Here Come The Justices
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It is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags).
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‘All these polls indicate is that there will be a dogfight for the last seat in all key marginals and the vote will be so tight it is hard for anyone to call it,’ the Fine Gael spokesman said.
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As a long-time B-list critic and junketeer, my conscience has long been inured to the petty scams of the Golden Globes voter shoving another complimentary cream puff into his craw.
House of Scams and Fog, Or How to Break Into Your Own Apartment
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The practice at which I am a patient devotes one eighth of its doctors' time to acute care.
Times, Sunday Times
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On an unseasonally nippy May Tuesday, two women, a man and a young girl wheeling a baby's buggy, set about cracking open the votes in Kinsealy.
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The Prime Minister faces anxious hours before the votes are counted tomorrow night.
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Both Texas senators, Phil Gramm and Hutchison, voted against tabling the amendment because they opposed the measures.
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Derived from the Old French word franc, meaning “free,” it later came to be associated with the most fundamental political freedom of all: to exercise your franchise meant to exercise your right to vote.
The Sack of Washington
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In partisan Republican circles, the pursuit of voter fraud is code for suppressing the votes of minorities and poor people.
Archive 2007-03-01
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The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.
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The book devotes 30 pages to cucurbits, from giant pumpkins through marrows, zucchinis and cucumbers to back-scratching loofahs.
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'By gar,' he says, ''tis a disgrace to th' mim'ries iv thim devoted dead who died f'r their counthry, 'he says.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen
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Did the Conservatives win courtesy of the division of the opposition vote between Labour and the Liberal Democrats?
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This means that should you get say 20% of the vote at the election, you won't get 20% of the seats in Parliament, only those seats where you polled the most votes.
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The vote - 110 to 46 in the House and 31 to 8 in the Senate - came as mayors, town managers, social service agencies, and local activists across Massachusetts began to digest the massive cuts the budget proposal calls for, including up to a 15 percent cut in noneducation local aid for municipalities.
CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
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Willis also skips over the secular and leftist politics that led Catholic ethnics and working-class voters to take their distance from liberalism and the Democratic Party in 1972.
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The demonstrations in the province northeast of Baghdad were sparked at the beginning of the week, when local authorities voted to seek semiautonomy status from the central Baghdad government.
Disruptions Mount in Iraq
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In fact, it took a highly deceptive sales campaign to get Americans to support the invasion, and even so, voters were never as solidly behind the war as America's political and pundit elite.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. W.C. Fields
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Probably he felt an attempt to demonstrate the scale of Flaubert's achievement would be otiose and would, in any case, take up too much space in a short essay devoted to another topic.
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Its only real weapon over the government is that it can propose a vote of censure.
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'You mean he's going to vote against her?' Scobie asked in surprise.
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Over the top rhetoric makes sense for the illiterati that the GOP courts to win their votes, but feeling the need to use it for the party power brokers is a disturbing new concept.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010
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Everyone should own the original movie, but we've rounded up a few clips that only the most devoted fans will have seen before.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let's go ahead and coronate Palin the presidential nominee now and throw the constitutionist Republican vote away to the Libertarian Party right now to avoid the rush later on?
First on the Ticker: Palin will not run for re-election
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the popular vote
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Nelson received $45 million in bribe money for his State to swing his vote doesn't anyone else find this criminal and IMPEACHABLE?
Huckabee compares Nelson to Judas
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Congressional nominees are selected in party conventions, unless no candidate gets more than 60 percent of the vote there.
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He became a citizen, thereby gaining the right to vote.
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When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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The union resolved to strike by 36 votes to 15.
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Rupert can't vote his own stock, but he can vote the undirected proxies on a deal where he has a large related party transaction as part of the gig.
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Now that the conference has voted in favour of coalition, does that mean that you would feel compeled yourself to vote with the coalition on bills in the assemblyeven if you felt that a certain bill was making too much of a concesion to the other party or was in general against your LibDem principles?
Back in circulation
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The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage.
The ObamaCare Writedowns
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The lad and devoted dad must overcome corruption and indifference as they strive to make it in the rarefied world of the concert musician without connections.
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He won the award, but some suspected it was a sympathy vote following his struggle with cancer.
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In ruling out a Yes vote from the get-go, Israel conceded immediate defeat in the world body, in the process forgoing a range of tactical advantages it could have gained by signaling qualified support for a resolution and then negotiating to help shape its wording to a text Israel could have profited by backing.
Bradley Burston: Ten Reasons Palestine Is Right to Bring its Case to the UN
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It includes the overwhelming majority of the voters and is consequently more heterogeneous in its social and ideological composition.
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Everyone over 18 has the right to vote.
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Directors who are aware of a conflict of interest in any proposed contract are required to draw it to the attention of the board, but may thereafter take part in any vote on the matter.
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So, in an effort to unite the party, Stephen Douglas offered to withdraw. James Buchanan got his votes and the nomination.
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The DPJ has campaigned almost exclusively on bread-and-butter economic issues, appealing to voters who feel the LDP has lost touch with average families.
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He was a loving husband and devoted father.
The Sun
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But ideological arguments, navel-gazing and the odd bout of nat-bashing aside, how will Labour members actually vote?
Archive 2009-09-01
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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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To many baffled voters he must seem indestructible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Voters are due to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president.
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The Harvard center will strive to develop new technologies for genomic molecular imaging, while the Johns Hopkins center will be devoted to advancing the emerging field of epigenetics.
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The Higher Education Bill scraped through the Commons at second reading by just five votes in January.
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If properly framed, some of those positions could be sold to Kentucky voters at least; others need to be "reframed" into oblivion.
Rand Paul: No Babe in the Woods
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We were just in the process of proceeding to a party vote when points of order were raised about the calling of the voice vote.
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Then the committee takes a vote and the amendment is adopted, 12-11, with the 11 “no” votes all coming from the Green Team.
Matthew Yglesias » Strange Tales of Congressional Procedure
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That sentiment is shared by 23 percent of all registered voters.
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The House voted 208-217 to reject an amendment that would have phased out the program over five years.
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Although expected, the committee's vote was the first test of gun sentiment in the Legislature this year.
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The reason they are similar in policy is because they are both democrats duh (who disagreed on only 2 or 3 legislative votes).
Blitzer: White House hopefuls worlds apart on the issues
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In some developed countries too, women were accorded the right to vote very late.
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I don't think it actually bwcomes a "litigable" issue until the house and senatge conference report is being debated in the senate, and someone moves for cloture with a claim that a 51 vote "yea" will do the job because the issue under debate is subject to the "reconciliation of house and senate differences over an item of budgetary impact".
Wheeling In The Cots: A Winter Snow Emergency--And An Absentee Lieberman--Is Complicating Democrats' Health Care Push
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Mr. Romney drew first when his campaign had Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, a semirural stretch of Arizona, record automated calls to Iowa voters last month calling Mr. Perry "part of the illegal-immigration problem.
High Noon on Immigration; Toss-Up on the Prairie
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Then whyever would one expect them to vote for the Republican candidate over Obama, who will then be the clearly more populist, combative candidate with working class concerns at heart?
Dianne Feinstein: I'm Sticking By Hillary
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Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box.
Courts and Criminals
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A significant look was exchanged between the devotees, but no words; the friar departed, and the nun, still silent, conducted her through many solitary passages, where not even a distant foot-fall echoed, and whose walls were roughly painted with subjects indicatory of the severe superstitions of the place, tending to inspire melancholy awe.
The Italian
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The International Olympic Committee voted in 2005 to drop baseball and softball from the Summer Games after this year's Beijing Games.
Baseball gets strong pitch, hopes to remain in Olympics
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The swinging door is pivoted on one side; the revolving door is pivoted in the centre.
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You voted in the referendum and a very clear majority decided to do just that.
The Sun
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Maison Française which is sort of a monthly event we started some two and a half years ago in which we applied a conversation between a French writer and myself and which is devoted to his actual work.
Blog of a Bookslut
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That is why I use the term devotee because it brings a different connotation; someone who is dedicated to following a specific faith rather than simply acknowledging it because they were born into it.
The Nation: Top Stories
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It was found that certain cliques of countries within the same geographic region, like Greece and Cyprus, are likely to vote similarly.
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The poll, whose objectivity is open to question, gave the party a 39% share of the vote.
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Both common-law national and civil-law national devote high attention to this.
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But he is mistaken in believing that most voters will come to their own conclusions.
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How does an aging politician retain his hold on the loyalty of the voters?
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And he aims to ensure he wins in Greece by spending the next month canvassing for votes in rival countries.
The Sun
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Indeed, before entering the first of two main spaces devoted to the exhibit, you encounter five 1968 lithographs inspired by the poet Pablo Neruda's epic work, "Canto General," an all-embracing distillation of Latin American history, geography and culture.
Siqueiros in Unfamiliar Terrain
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However, there are some excellent 'old labour 'style policies I'd vote for, unfortunately allied to post-modern, psuedo-sciencey rubbish that reads like the ramblings of a drugged horse (halts to stem cell research, animal experimentation and a promotion of alternative therpaies etc).
The murky politics of the Green Party
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The Catholic commission said Sunday it compiled what it called credible witness reports of "systematic violence in the form of assaults, murders, torture, abductions and wanton destruction of property against innocent civilians whose alleged crime is to have voted wrongly.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The web sites devoted to Brigitte are of course legion.
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Plaid Cymru, which did a similar deal, voted with the Government, acknowledging that its deal did go further.
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His votes aren't rolling in on any kind of decipherable time interval votes rolled in at exactly 5, 25, and 45 seconds into the minue though
Lookout Landing
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No wonder One Nation's vote in the last federal election declined substantially - it's a spent force.
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The couple have become devotees of the mystical sect of Judaism - Kabbalah.
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To their disappointment, the vote of confidence was not given whereupon they resigned from their posts and left the meeting.
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In a book appropriately entitled Konturen einer Geistesgeschichte der Mathematik (1946), Bense devoted a whole chapter (ch. 2) to articulating how the notion of style applies to mathematics.
Mathematical Style
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The 21-year-old student from Venice, Calif., beat out Chase, a 24-year-old pro race car jackman from Fairview, N.C., by one vote.
Survivor: Nicaragua Winner Revealed
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He said he had to go on a listening tour of voters because'very safe Labour wards have become moribund.
Times, Sunday Times
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A famous roué who played the violin, swilled whiskey, ran after women, and could charm even the most bumptious crowd of voters.
Suzanne Berne's "Missing Lucile," reviewed by Carolyn See
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The party boycotted the election in protest at alleged vote rigging.
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Winter's Bone" -- This is the iffiest of the lot, but I am betting that there will be enough indie-movie supporters to win the votes this Ozark-Mountain odyssey needs to sneak into the final 10.
Oscars 2011: Predicting the best director and best picture nominees
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As an unrepentant internet devotee, I spend a lot of time rootling around cyberspace seeking out the edifying and unusual.
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We demand an immediate restoration of our right to vote.
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He suggests that investors at bank annual meetings should vote on the entire amount spent on staff pay, not just the sum that goes to boardroom executives.
Times, Sunday Times
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A cheer went up from the Democratic side when the amendment was voted down.
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It also states, as I mentioned at the start of my speech: ‘In a referendum held in April-May 2002, 96.9% of wool grower respondents voted in favour of winding up the Wool Board.’
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He devoted himself to the reconstruction of lost orthographies and grammars, developed a distinctly Japanese poetics.
井の中の蛙 » Renaissance Japan » Print
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Having thus escaped the danger, the Romans threw their sentinel down the rock; while on Manlius they conferred by vote a reward for his bravery, intended more for honour than advantage; for each man gave him a day's rations, which consisted of half a Roman pound of meal, and the fourth part of a Greek cotyle of wine.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
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Peers would then vote on whether to approve this sanction.
Times, Sunday Times
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But at the same time, take a lesson from the union that not so long ago, voted in a new president and the $300,000 bank account suddenly evaporated.
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Put a cross beside the name of the candidate you wish to vote for.
