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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

vote

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a majority vote

▪ The majority vote carries the resolution.

a round of voting

▪ In the first round of voting he took 44.5 percent of the vote,

absentee vote

card vote

casting vote

eligible to vote

▪ Over 500,000 18-year-olds will become eligible to vote this year.

first-past-the-post voting

free vote

lose (sth) by 1 goal/10 votes/20 points etc

▪ The government lost by one vote.

▪ The Communist candidate lost by a whisker a very small amount.

passed...vote of no confidence

▪ On April 22 the National Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in the government.

postal voteBritish English

▪ Housebound voters should register early for a postal vote.

proxy vote

▪ a proxy vote

received...votes (=324 people voted for him)

▪ Lee received 324 votes.

swing votes

▪ Do campaign gifts swing votes?

tactical voting

the popular vote

▪ He won the presidency with almost 86 percent of the popular vote.

the voting age

▪ plans to bring down the voting age from 18 to 16

vote Labour

▪ They always vote Labour.

vote of censure

vote of confidence

▪ On April 19 the new government won a vote of confidence by 339 votes to 207.

vote of no confidence

▪ On April 22 the National Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in the government.

vote of thanks

vote on a proposal

▪ Shareholders will vote on the proposal on May 5.

vote on a resolution

▪ Are there any comments you wish to make before we vote on this resolution?

voting booth

voting machine

won...vote of confidence

▪ On April 19 the new government won a vote of confidence by 339 votes to 207.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

for

▪ Which Ugly Sister are you voting for?

▪ They're made to pay taxes they didn't vote for.

▪ Individuals can not choose what they vote on or when they vote.

▪ Most dividends are paid quarterly, and each quarterly payment must be voted on and approved by the board.

▪ The commitments have been abandoned before they have been voted on.

▪ The women never went to the rallies with the men, even when the settlement was voted on.

▪ The scheme has to be voted on by Headteachers and parents within ten days to guarantee it's success.

▪ Legislation to derail these plans was voted on by the Senate last year.

▪ Read in studio Hundreds of bus company workers have been voting on whether to accept a six percent pay cut.

▪ The package is part of the budget bill to be voted on for the next fiscal year.

overwhelmingly

▪ On Dec. 7 delegates voted overwhelmingly to retain the party's name.

▪ The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly last month to repeal the tax break only after it had become public.

▪ The members of the 26-strong congressional black caucus voted overwhelmingly on July 11 to oppose the nomination.

▪ When the special Texas Convention was called on July 4, to consider the issue, it also voted overwhelmingly for annexation.

▪ I know that the House will vote overwhelmingly for the Bill, which I wholeheartedly recommend.

▪ In the end, the conference voted overwhelmingly to endorse the amendment.

▪ After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation.

▪ Parents there voted overwhelmingly against opting out in the final ballot.

unanimously

▪ During the initial month's activity in August 1990 which saw 10 resolutions adopted, only 4 were voted unanimously.

▪ The commission voted unanimously for a 38-page reading and writing standard that includes a section on listening and speaking skills.

▪ They also voted unanimously to approve adding three more pages to minutes of a July 10 meeting.

▪ The commission unanimously voted to reprimand Williams for lying about the Las Vegas hotel rooms.

▪ Later that year, the House voted unanimously to censure Diggs.

▪ The regents voted unanimously to accept a compromise plan delaying the end of affirmative action until spring 1998.

■ NOUN

bill

▪ Lawmakers initially had been scheduled to vote on the bill Friday, but postponed the balloting for lack of sufficient votes.

▪ But will he vote against the mastectomy bill?

▪ I know that the House will vote overwhelmingly for the Bill, which I wholeheartedly recommend.

▪ John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose, voted for the bill while urging the state to follow through with a job-creation program.

▪ At that time the Conservative party voted against the Bill because we thought that it was entirely wrong.

▪ The education measure disturbed Bryant enough that he voted against the bill in its final form.

▪ All Nottinghamshire Conservative Members were present at that debate, and they voted against the Bill.

board

▪ On Wednesday, the new board voted 7 to 3 for the new standards.

▪ The board is scheduled to vote on the Salvation Army grant in two weeks.

▪ Continental's managers and supervisory board urged shareholders to vote against several of the resolutions proposed by Mr Vicari.

▪ Last week, the board voted to declare bankruptcy.

▪ Examining past, present, and projected student enrollments in one district, the school board voted to dismiss four teachers.

▪ However, he tabled the measure before the Board of Supervisors voted on it.

▪ Syncronys' board will vote Feb. 29 on selling the naval ship computer design program maker for $ 440, 000.

candidate

▪ And if voters have voted for an excluded candidate, why should they be permitted to switch their preference?

▪ On election day, the regime brought contingents of troops into the city to vote for its candidates.

▪ These other Electors can vote for their chosen candidate, but they can not put themselves forward as Emperor.

▪ Meyer voted for independent presidential candidate Ross Perot in 1992, then voted a straight Republican ticket in 1994.

▪ Mr Knapp warned passengers and rail workers alike their fate was in their own hands if they voted for candidates supporting privatisation.

▪ Team members vote on candidates and develop rankings-high to low.

▪ Since 1879, House rules have required a majority of those voting for a distinct candidate to elect a speaker.

committee

▪ The central committee of Tehiya voted to leave the coalition government.

▪ Afterward, the committee proceeded to vote 7 to 3 to reject the charter concept.

▪ Not one woman on the committee would vote for her.

▪ The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to split the bill into two parts, one each dealing with legal and illegal immigration.

▪ Yet the committee voted four-to-two in favour of smoking in the directors' suites - though they reckoned the air-conditioning would need fixing.

▪ The committee voted 17-9 to table the bill.

▪ After the ethics committee voted on Dec. 12, 1995, that the complaints former Rep.

council

▪ The council voted narrowly last month to rejoin the devolved government.

▪ Last month, the Council on Competitive Government voted to accept bids on a contract.

▪ Last June, the Council voted to bring in the arrangements from September 2000.

▪ The city council done voted to take over these whole twelve blocks.

▪ Gloucestershire County Council will vote on the ban tomorrow - the anti-hunt groups say they're confident of victory.

▪ The council will vote on the re-&038;.

▪ There was no consistent pattern in Security Council voting over the crisis.

▪ Then the City Council voted to become the Town Council.

democrat

▪ They even won over about half of the traditionally Democrat-voting Catholics.

election

▪ Participation is measured using voter turnout, or the percentage of the eligible voters who actually voted in national elections.

▪ The members know perfectly well that they will be beaten over the head with any yes vote at the next election.

▪ The most desirable on-line capability was voting in elections, with half the sample in favor.

▪ The first round of voting in the presidential elections took place on Aug. 2.

▪ They vote because elections matter to them; they are the only citizens whose votes should matter to us.

▪ All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years.

▪ Most of them had not voted in several elections.

foot

▪ The Derbyshire Times noted that defiant parents were voting with their feet by keeping children away from school.

▪ The problem is how to keep up with the pace of voting without putting a foot wrong.

▪ Perhaps it is not surprising that many younger doctors are voting with their feet.

▪ If not, they will vote with their feet when they are old enough to do so.

government

▪ The strained but defiant Premier pleaded with Tory Euro-rebels not to vote against the Government.

▪ Do I vote for lower taxes or do I vote for higher government spending?

▪ He said he was threatened that his career was finished if he voted against the Government.

▪ Late last night Mellor did his duty as a backbencher by voting for the Government at the end of the economy debate.

▪ By voting with the Government, it let Labour walk away.

▪ I was not shown as voting for the Government motion in Division 15.

▪ The independence of the cross-benchers provided little balance: calculations in 1988 showed that they voted two-one in favour of the government.

▪ I voted for this government because they said they weren't going to go in for that sort of rubbish.

house

▪ That same year, the 100-member House voted for outright repeal, causing a General Assembly stalemate.

▪ Late last year, the panel and House leaders agreed the House would vote on the sanction by Jan. 21.

▪ Under a schedule worked out earlier this week, the House would vote on the sanction no later than Jan. 21.

▪ The House is scheduled to vote Jan. 21 on proposed sanctions against Gingrich.

▪ Only two months ago the House voted to eliminate all spending for AmeriCorps.

▪ Gallegly said Gingrich promised him Wednesday that the House would vote on a version of the bill with his amendment in it.

▪ Each year since then, she has pushed for similar sanctions, but the House has consistently voted no.

▪ A budget bill passed the Republican-controlled House by only three votes earlier this week.

issue

▪ Moreover, even if I were called, there is no opportunity to vote on the issue.

▪ Overall, Feingold has a liberal voting record on social issues and a moderately conservative one on fiscal matters.

▪ The people of Birmingham ought to be allowed to vote on this all-important issue.

▪ No surprise there: Political handlers tell candidates that only 2 percent of the electorate considers foreign affairs a voting issue.

▪ Then there is the problem of qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues.

▪ He did not completely rule out qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues.

majority

▪ The majority of people voted in favour of parties that advocate the inclusion of the social chapter, but the Government rejects it.

▪ A majority of those voting can overturn the actions of their own elected representatives.

▪ Then there is the problem of qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues.

▪ But the majority voted to support her.

▪ The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers.

▪ But that is pretty magnanimous of him, given the large majority who voted for him rather than for Bush.

▪ Though short of the needed 50% of all voters, a big majority of those who voted favoured new parliamentary elections soon.

▪ In the end, it appeared a majority would not vote to enshrine a right to physician-assisted suicide.

member

▪ Under the Arab League Charter a resolution passed by a majority of votes was binding only on member states voting in favour.

▪ For the U. S. Supreme Court to hear a case, four of its nine members must vote to do so.

▪ Although the move was defeated and the renationalisation policy endorsed, party members voted to remit the controversial proposal for further consideration.

▪ Council members also voted in principle to pay themselves or their firms for the time they spent working on Council affairs.

▪ For example: Union members vote for Hoover then, and Reagan now.

▪ In November, at a neighborhood meeting, 11 of the 12 sitting members were voted out.

office

▪ It's the ordinary folks at home who vote you into office, remember - and out of it.

▪ Four of the five who voted him out of office either refused to discuss the removal or did not return phone calls.

▪ If democratic elections still exist, the chances are that the government will be voted out of office.

▪ Within weeks, he was voted back into office.

▪ In 1991 he was voted out of office as governor of Carinthia for praising Hitler's employment policies.

▪ Having failed to see this, Bush was voted out of office.

▪ Mr I Wall, was then voted into office.

▪ If managers do badly, the company's directors may be voted out of office at the annual general meeting of shareholders.

parliament

▪ The nearest thing to a University Parliament, they were voting on plans to promote fifteen people to professor.

▪ In the Parliament of 1679 he voted against the exclusion of the Duke of York from the throne.

▪ He knew full well: by Acts of Parliament, voted by landlords to benefit their like.

party

▪ Miners all over the country will know that the Labour party voted against those terms.

▪ No senator crossed party lines in the voting.

▪ Although the move was defeated and the renationalisation policy endorsed, party members voted to remit the controversial proposal for further consideration.

▪ He defeated Ichiro Ozawa, head of the opposition Shinshinto party, 288 votes to 167.

▪ We should not forget that his party voted against a review body.

▪ Or is it the party that voted to support a Constitutional Amendment that would make abortion illegal?

▪ Some 282 of the 410 members of the Birkenhead party voted in the contest.

▪ Instead, party members will vote for the nominee, either by phone, computer or mailbox by next Friday.

people

▪ Politicians like them because holding shares may persuade people to vote against parties keen on renationalising former state businesses.

▪ Only 29 percent of the 19. 5 million people old enough to vote in California participated.

▪ The chairman asked each candidate to give a one sentence reason why people should vote for them.

▪ The people voted for 172 thinking they would be getting increased money for public safety.

▪ They believed at least 5 percent of the people would vote for a cleaner, safer and kinder future.

▪ Under Florida law, such people are banned from voting for life.

▪ Mr Alton said official electoral registration surveys were inadequate, missing many people actually eligible to vote.

▪ S.-brokered peace agreement in Bosnia as 2. 9 million people prepare to vote in national elections scheduled Saturday.

percent

▪ Of the republican budget 2.8 percent was voted for military expenditure.

▪ Bob Dole Wednesday, is that no more than 16 percent of independents will vote.

▪ This week, 60 percent voted for multilateralism.

▪ Among all registered voters in Texas, 7 percent said they would vote to put Perot in the White House.

▪ Preliminary results indicated a turnout of about 58 percent, of whom 69.2 percent voted in favour and 25.6 percent against.

▪ The Gaylord family controls about 60 percent of the voting stock, so approval is virtually certain.

▪ The 9 percent PacTel vote adds momentum to this campaign.

▪ Regaining the initiative, King quipped that the other 2 percent are all voting for Pat Buchanan.

president

▪ If you voted for president in 1992, who for? 36.

▪ Electors before 1804 did not vote separately for president and vice-president, as they do now.

▪ Dole likes to joke that he was voted president of Iowa, known as the Hawkeye State.

▪ Exit polls showed that 81 percent of those who voted for the president had a favorable opinion of his wife.

republican

▪ Being a Republican he would vote the Democratic ticket.

▪ I have been a loyal Republican all my voting life until the past two presidential elections.

▪ I am a staunchly independent Republican who votes his constituent base.

senate

▪ And the nation cheered when the Supreme Court and the Senate voted last week to impeach him.

▪ Meanwhile, the Senate voted but failed to get a two-thirds majority on the balanced budget and flag desecration amendments.

▪ Gramm missed 68 votes, making him a participant in 88. 9 percent of the Senate votes.

▪ Connie Mack, R-Fla., as the Senate voted 74-22 for the bill.

▪ However, the override is given little chance of passing the Senate where 54 senators voted for the ban last year.

▪ Each delegate prepares a bill or a resolution for the mock senate to vote on.

▪ The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to split the bill into two parts, one each dealing with legal and illegal immigration.

state

▪ The laws blocking these citizens from voting are state laws.

▪ Republicans will vote in seven states with 362 delegates, and Dole is expected to win at least 300 of them.

▪ Now that burden may shift to Republicans, some of whom have never voted for a state budget.

▪ Those responding said they vote regularly in state elections.

▪ Election votes in many states and localities overwhelmingly show it.

▪ Turnout for the primary was high with about 75 percent of registered Republican voters showing up to vote, state officials said.

voter

▪ And if voters have voted for an excluded candidate, why should they be permitted to switch their preference?

▪ To assure party loyalty, the precinct captains merely accompany the voter into the voting machine.

▪ Participation is measured using voter turnout, or the percentage of the eligible voters who actually voted in national elections.

▪ Clinton hammered away at campaign themes tailor-made to appeal to predominantly white swing voters who might otherwise vote for Republican Bob Dole.

▪ There is little evidence to suggest voters voting for a particular party because of its stand on a particular issue.

▪ The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries.

▪ What is most noteworthy here is that at every stage after the first the exhaustive ballot enables voters to vote knowledgeably.

▪ After his defeat by 984 votes, Dornan immediately claimed the election was marred by voter fraud, including voting by noncitizens.

week

▪ And the nation cheered when the Supreme Court and the Senate voted last week to impeach him.

▪ Buchanan and Forbes moved on Tuesday to the industrial states that will vote next week.

▪ The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge.

▪ With more than 1. 1 million eligible to vote last week, only 49, 266 voted.

▪ The county Planning Commission voted 4-1 last week to endorse it.

▪ The Senate is slated to vote this week.

▪ It voted last week to determine whether doctors are giving placards to the undeserving.

▪ A budget bill passed the Republican-controlled House by only three votes earlier this week.

woman

▪ Note 1933 elections Religion: large no. of women vote for 1st time.

▪ He and a white woman in her twenties voted against the amount of the awards.

▪ This was held on 17 November 1933, women voting for the first time.

▪ In those early days, we are told, women voted as well as men.

▪ Is it true that men are more likely than women to vote in a democracy?

▪ A Mormon bishop boasted that when the women of Utah voted, they voted for the tried friends of the church.

▪ National exit polls showed 54 percent of women voted for Clinton and 38 percent chose Dole.

▪ Universal democracy needed a civil war to end slavery and a constitutional amendment to let women vote.

■ VERB

allow

▪ The bill marks the end of a shocking anomaly similar to the one that once allowed only men to vote.

▪ And under no circumstances are you allowed to vote for me.

▪ He cited examples of cities that allowed noncitizens to vote in municipal elections in Maryland and several other states.

▪ So who should be allowed to vote in this election?

▪ The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries.

▪ All those with permanent residence in the republic are to be allowed to vote in a 10 December poll.

▪ If voters do not understand the process, they should not be allowed to vote.

register

▪ You can find most people that way unless, like me, they don't register to vote.

▪ The following year, Three registered to vote again, at a different address across the street.

▪ Nearly 7, 000 full-timers are registered to vote in Texas' Polk County.

▪ Every move requires a person to take the time and fight the hassle to register to vote.

▪ Do you want to distinguish between those who are and are not registered to vote?

▪ Every move required the mover to take the time to register to vote, if so inclined.

▪ A dozen registered to vote at the Coming Home Hospice, a facility for people with less than six months to live.

win

▪ However, I am not at all surprised that many who would have profited had they won did not so vote.

▪ Married women voted Republican in 1984 and 1988-and the Republicans won.

▪ Can a majority of public opinion be won over to vote for joining a single currency in just three or four years?

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

block booking/voting

▪ Dress is formal and block bookings are available.

majority vote/decision/verdict etc

▪ And I suppose the way to change the damned constitution is with a majority vote.

▪ It took the jury almost five hours to reach a majority verdict and acquit her on all three charges.

▪ Stopping the White House from selling weapons to a foreign country requires a majority vote in both houses of Congress.

▪ Supposing Yorkshire or Cornwall decided by a majority vote to secede from Britain and elect their own government.

▪ The majority decision said the cabinet must now report to the legislature on its plan to scrap the plant.

▪ The reason for this is that government output is determined on the basis of a simple majority vote model.

▪ Then there is the problem of qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues.

▪ With a pure majority vote, this would presumably be enacted.

propose a vote of thanks (to sb)

▪ Chairman Gerald Davies proposed a vote of thanks.

▪ I did listen to him proposing a vote of thanks occasionally, and I was always glad when he sat down.

vote of no-confidence/no-confidence vote/motion of no-confidence etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ 70% of the population voted for independence.

▪ Greg says he has never voted.

▪ Hundreds of people lost their lives in the past fighting for the right to vote.

▪ I've voted Democrat all my life.

▪ I haven't decided who I'm going to vote for.

▪ In tomorrow's election, many young people will be voting for the first time.

▪ Only two people voted against the expansion of the business.

▪ Teachers will be voting on a proposal to accept the 5% pay offer.

▪ The Board of Supervisors has refused to vote more money for the project.

▪ The vast majority of people voted in favour of closer links with Europe.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ A review of computer messages between council members during April shows some of them lobbying colleagues on how to vote.

▪ All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years.

▪ But he could be forced from office if 61 members of the 120-seat Knesset voted to remove him.

▪ Compton, it is worth noting, had voted against Exclusion in the Lords in November 1680.

▪ He was also voted top baritone player in 1998.

▪ Mr Alton said official electoral registration surveys were inadequate, missing many people actually eligible to vote.

▪ Only 26 members of his own party ended up voting not to reprimand him.

▪ This would allow Congress to count on the savings without ever voting to alter the index.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

black

▪ The black vote is astonishingly loyal to the Democratic Party.

▪ Christie Whitman got 25 percent of the black vote in New Jersey.

▪ Another astute electoral move helped to win 70% of the black vote for Kennedy.

▪ George Allen received 22 percent of the black vote.

▪ Clinton returned to the electoral fray last week to get out the black and Hispanic vote in California and the south.

▪ This leaves one important question: How does the Republican nominee get more of the black and minority vote?

▪ Q: Can the Democratic Party afford to take the black vote for granted?

casting

▪ There was heated debate, but by the casting vote of the chairman we got our grant.

▪ Without hesitation the General threw his casting vote in favour of the gallows.

▪ The Chair has the casting vote in the case of a tie.

▪ The only solution seems to be to rotate the casting vote, but there are always Trollopean difficulties and rivalries.

▪ Verity Lambert would have artistic control over, and generally the casting vote in any decisions about, the programme.

conservative

▪ It certainly lost us quite a lot of Conservative votes.

▪ The religious conservative vote is perhaps more influential in South Carolina than in any state.

▪ Our Conservative vote increased from 23,753 to 24,591.

▪ He is preaching to the choir of religious-right Protestants and conservative Catholics whose votes should already be locked up.

▪ Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.

▪ The Conservative vote dropped from 59.9 percent of the valid vote at the 1987 general election, to 40.9 percent.

electoral

▪ Hayes's election depended on contested electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida.

▪ He noted that Wisconsin controls only 11 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

▪ If all the disputed electoral votes went to Hayes, he would win; just one of them would elect Tilden.

▪ Perot did not carry a single state in 1992 and, as a result, did not win any electoral votes.

▪ At 3.15 this morning Clinton had passed the magical 270 electoral votes he required to win the presidency.

▪ Perot did not receive even one electoral vote in his 1992 independent campaign for president.

▪ Historically, they have been states or part of a bloc of states that have large numbers of electoral votes.

▪ It takes 270 electoral votes to win.

free

▪ It called for a free vote on marijuana, and also for possible referendums on abortion and the restoration of capital punishment.

▪ He has spent his life campaigning for free trade unionism and free votes.

▪ Members are traditionally allowed a free vote and can not be instructed by their party to follow a line.

▪ On a free vote the amendment was carried by 292 votes to 246, a majority of forty six.

▪ The issues of Maastricht - single currency, sovereignty and legal structure - deserve thorough scrutiny and a free vote.

▪ Who is really winning will not be known before the free vote on the embryo Bill in the new year.

▪ No wonder, it will be a free vote.

labour

▪ The ardent left-winger helped launch the Red Wedge pop-meets-politics movement to boost the Labour vote in the 1987 general election.

▪ The Labour vote suffered a double slippage.

▪ The Labour vote suffered from increasing local distress caused by the strike which was still in progress.

▪ Although the Labour vote was still six million, its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910.

▪ But anti-Tory feeling in a recession-battered area has polarised the Labour vote to his disadvantage.

popular

▪ Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly, elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term.

▪ If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.

▪ Now they've managed to get round the popular vote.

▪ Equally ironic was the fact that four years earlier Johnson had won the biggest percentage of the popular vote in modern history.

▪ The President is elected for a five-year term by popular vote.

▪ In 1992, he ended up with 19 percent of the popular vote.

▪ The popular vote was, apparently, 4,300,000 for Tilden to 4,036,000 for Hayes.

▪ Perot garnered 19 percent of the popular vote in the three-way race in 1992&038;.

postal

▪ Only one had a postal vote.

▪ Something similar may also have happened in Martin county, where 9,770 postal votes are at stake.

▪ Voluntary patients can register on the electoral roll and can have postal votes.

▪ Telephone canvassing, postal votes, the party machine at Labour's Millbank headquarters had all the answers.

single

▪ Likewise, the single transferable vote system normally operates, and is usually thought of as operating, in multi-member constituencies.

▪ Its unintended effect was also to crush a succession of much less well-prepared Republican hopefuls before a single vote had been cast.

▪ That may be what he'd like to say, but the single preferential vote makes it impossible.

▪ And I fear for the darkness as four Justices anxiously await the single vote necessary to extinguish the light.

▪ A single vote, wasted votes and used votes Nothing escapes attention so easily as the obvious.

▪ He was impeached by radical Republicans and escaped by a single vote being found guilty and ousted from office.

▪ He had just missed being elected a member of this Academy by a single vote.

▪ Schweiker changed not a single convention delegate vote.

■ NOUN

block

▪ It is rather like a Labour Party conference, without the block vote.

▪ That can now change - indeed, if the block vote goes, it will have to change.

▪ In the end the pro-democracy motion was defeated-crushed under the boot of the union block vote.

▪ The rumbling row with the unions over ending the block vote is a classic example of its suicidal tendencies.

▪ Although that would reduce the union block vote more drastically than other options, it would also give both sides a veto.

▪ A composite motion demanding the straight forward abolition of the block vote was defeated on a show of hands.

▪ Millions of trade unionists could not simply be represented by the casting of a block vote once a year.

confidence

▪ No government can fail a confidence vote without suspicion that parties were bought by the opposition.

▪ On 15 April the government lost a confidence vote in parliament and Gaillard resigned.

▪ Three Foreign Ministry officials resigned but the government survived a no confidence vote on Jan. 31.

▪ If the government does lose the showdown, it seems likely that John Major will call a confidence vote 24 hours later.

▪ Parliament meets for the confidence vote on December 30.

▪ Haughey dismissed two ministers before the no confidence vote.

■ VERB

adopt

▪ Ninety-seven percent of those qualified to vote did so and a new democratic constitution was adopted by unanimous vote.

▪ The Committee adopted by voice vote an amendment offered by Senator Helms to the proposed resolution of ratification.

▪ It was adopted by 101 votes to none with eight abstentions.

▪ Resolution 44/115 on chemical weapons was adopted without a vote.

▪ All three parts of Resolution 45/57 on the prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons were adopted without a vote.

▪ It was adopted by 75 votes to 20 and 40 abstentions.

▪ The declaration was adopted by 907 votes to 13, with nine abstentions.

cast

▪ But in the teacher contest the electors can cast as many votes as they wish.

▪ We propose the single transferable vote, by which electors cast their votes in multi-member constituencies based on natural communities.

▪ In 1996, 8,605 people cast votes for mayor, including 6,570 for Owens.

▪ I had to assert the authority of my casting vote.

▪ George Thacher cast the lone dissenting vote.

▪ That is, the value of each vote is equal to the amount owed to the creditor casting that vote.

▪ His opponent will be lucky to get seventy thousand Republicans interested enough to cast a primary vote.

count

▪ But this time there was particular urgency about their work as if each woman were counting votes for the two competitors.

▪ Other members count votes before items reach a public meeting or talk as a quorum of a council subcommittee.

▪ Others, however, are counting on your vote.

▪ Otherwise we just elect a few representatives who can totally ignore our wishes for several years after we have counted the votes.

▪ Nobody bothers to count the votes.

▪ It is understood the moves were made to make it easier to count the votes and complete the procedure by the weekend.

defeat

▪ But his bid was defeated by 27 votes to 17.

▪ The housing project, which had been approved by the town council, was narrowly defeated by public vote.

▪ Danquah was defeated by over 1100 votes.

▪ His concern was justified when the no confidence motion was defeated by only 447 votes to 412.

▪ In parliament, Mr Rabin's Labour Party defeated by 50 votes to 41 a right-wing no-confidence motion prompted by the bloodshed.

▪ Later on Nov. 23 the no confidence motion was defeated by 201 votes to 159, with six abstentions.

▪ As well as shortage of time, the bill can be defeated on a vote or it can be talked out.

elect

▪ Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly, elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term.

▪ Three of the hardest selling dealers were elected, usually by vote.

▪ I was duly elected without a vote being needed, on to the Standing Committee, as were five other people.

▪ Seleznev was elected by 285 votes to two.

▪ For instance: is the test of a democracy the fact that a government is elected by the votes of the people?

lose

▪ It would cause an outcry and lose votes including mine.

▪ In Southern states where Democrats had returned to power, blacks had just lost the vote.

▪ He saw it as his mission to make sure the Prime Minister did not lose this crucial vote.

▪ Defence, which lost Labour so many votes in 1983 and 1987, is especially important.

▪ Last week was the first time Hastert had lost such a procedural vote.

pass

▪ A drive in a limousine is passed by silent vote.

▪ The Presidio bill and the huge parks package it was tied to passed by unanimous voice vote.

▪ The bill was passed by 241 votes to 55, with 55 abstentions.

▪ A few hours later, it passed by seventy votes to twenty-three.

▪ Congress formally passed a vote of thanks to the new president.

▪ The motion to continue proceedings on the bill was passed by 319 votes to 316 with seven deliberate Conservative abstentions.

▪ With the new dynamic of California politics, getting any ballot measure passed with just Anglo votes is fast becoming impossible.

receive

▪ New Democracy again abstained so that neither candidate was able to win a two-thirds majority, Alevras receiving 127 votes and Sartzetakis 21.

▪ All five, for better or worse, have received recent votes of confidence from their respective general managers or team presidents.

▪ This arose as local businesses paid rates but did not receive a vote.

▪ Perot did not receive even one electoral vote in his 1992 independent campaign for president.

▪ They replied that their only concern was survival and whatever politician might help them with that would receive their vote.

▪ He received 52 votes while the Communist candidate, Thein pe, got only 33 votes.

▪ Perot received 64 percent of votes cast, while Lamm won 35 percent.

require

▪ All required a two-thirds majority vote, but achieved less than half.

▪ The idea of funding the museum with a lease revenue bond, which requires a simple majority vote, may be used.

▪ The amendment would require a two-thirds vote of Congress to pass tax increase measures.

▪ Stopping the White House from selling weapons to a foreign country requires a majority vote in both houses of Congress.

▪ Forty senators could block the bill because Senate rules require 60 votes to take up a conference committee report.

▪ The bonds, which require a simple majority vote for passage, would result in a rate increase for water customers.

▪ Ultimately, a valley breakaway could require a vote of the people.

win

▪ In the precinct where Owens lives, the mayor won six more votes than Brown.

▪ If Fabre wins the vote in the Federation Executive then he will take over, although no one knows for how long.

▪ Some have interpreted it as an attempt to win Hispanic votes at the expense of military readiness.

▪ George W Bush initially won Florida by 2,000 votes.

▪ After last-minute arm-twisting by Dole, Lott wound up winning by just one vote.

▪ Mr Gorbachev might well have won such a vote, and added to his formal powers the authority he now lacks.

▪ Perot garnered 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992 but did not win any electoral votes.

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cast a vote/ballot

▪ I had to assert the authority of my casting vote.

▪ In 1996, 8,605 people cast votes for mayor, including 6,570 for Owens.

▪ Its voters first cast ballots by mail on a state housing initiative in 1993.

▪ Just four Republicans cast ballots for some one other than Gingrich, six short of the number needed to block his selection.

▪ The deadline for casting votes is February 1, 2001.

▪ The majority of eligible voters said they would rather not cast ballots, leading to the worst percentage voter turnout since 1924.

▪ They can not accept that I should cast votes on their behalf without first asking each of them what they think.

▪ Those who do are forced to cast a vote of questionable worth.