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Example sentences for "vote"

Lexicographically close words:
vot; vota; votaress; votaries; votary; voted; voteless; voter; voters; votes
  1. Providence, which protects just causes, will inspire the vote which you will deposit in the urn.

  2. The National Executive Committee instructed the secretary not to tabulate the vote or make it public.

  3. It calls upon all workers to unite, to strike as they vote and to vote as they strike, all against the master class.

  4. Or they will come into power gradually, by an increased vote at each election.

  5. A vote for Berger is a vote for the International of German Majority Socialism.

  6. Those who vote the Socialist ticket insist on calling the attention of non-Socialists to the immediate demands enumerated in their party platform, many of which are excellent.

  7. Roll up a united Socialist vote in California that will shake the Pacific Coast like an earthquake, and back it up with a general strike that will paralyze the continent.

  8. I cannot understand his reasoning; if he thinks Reform must be carried, surely it is better to vote a general resolution, and to fight the details.

  9. He neither likes the expense of an election for Downshire, nor losing a vote he thought he could dispose of.

  10. Peel thinks that after the vote of the House of Commons no verdicts will be obtained; but may not a contrary vote of the House of Lords turn public opinion into its former course?

  11. Hunt proposing a vote of thanks to Lord Anglesey and O'Connell, and Lord Darnley!

  12. Birmingham was, and it was because after an agreement that we should all vote for Bassetlaw, Huskisson voted for Birmingham and then resigned, that the separation took place.

  13. Indeed I do not think that upon a point affecting the revenues of India I ought to vote as a judge.

  14. We had afterwards Lord Lansdowne, Lord Harewood giving his first vote for the Government after the Catholic Question, and that because it was the first measure of the new King.

  15. The Duke of Rutland, who was not expected, and indeed every doubtful vote was with us.

  16. Gordon came over to Herries and said he should vote with Government.

  17. Every man will vote for his constituents.

  18. Brougham put it ad verecundiam to the directors whether they would vote upon a question in which they were directly interested, and in which they had already appeared by Counsel.

  19. Clive, whom I saw to-day, is for a modified Reform; but he will vote for us in order to keep the Duke in.

  20. Moreover, the reason which had decided Lieutenant Elmsley in giving his vote had an equal influence in sustaining himself in the expediency of surrender.

  21. The first change would be that all women would have the same right to vote as men have; not because they are women, but because they are Divine, like man.

  22. After three months' labor in Los Angeles a vote was taken.

  23. They did not want woman to vote in making laws which might be detrimental to their business interests.

  24. No strange priest could enter the town when the junta was sitting, and in some places if a deputy was seen speaking to a priest before a session he lost his vote for that day.

  25. Only the grade crossing war remained as an issue, and that would require still another vote after this.

  26. But three members now vote for me, and it is only by mutual concessions that we move forward at all.

  27. He worked hard and long on several pictures which should not only be hung on the line but enlist sufficient interest among the artists to gain him a vote of admission.

  28. Each vote must be for such contemplated action, or it could not become a law.

  29. If there are no elevated crossings to vote for, there will be no excuse for voting for me.

  30. Not only was a much larger vote cast than ever, but he thrashed the enemy with a tail of two hundred votes to spare.

  31. He, or rather his organization, took a door-to-door census of his following, and discovered a very considerable increase in the number of those intending to vote for him.

  32. One member moved to go on with the consideration of the bill, and after a close vote the motion carried.

  33. Nor did they live in close relations with one another and vote for common officers.

  34. It was not the custom of the Indians to vote on any questions that were discussed at their meetings.

  35. It was put to the vote and accepted unanimously, subject to some alterations which I was to arrange after consultation with M.

  36. I obtained Hugo's vote for him with much difficulty.

  37. By a vote of the majority, the Convention proceeded to the nomination of State officers--the minority refusing to participate in the current business until the resolutions should have been acted on.

  38. I can't see my way clear to vote for a warrior.

  39. Some of our friends and neighbors, who have been with us heretofore, last year saw fit to vote with the opposite party.

  40. Simkins, 'are you going to vote for a man whose whole life has been spent in killing people?

  41. It has already compelled him to put his hands in his pockets for electioneering purposes, and travel all the way from Washington to Buffalo to give his vote for a spoilsman and anti-civil service machine politician.

  42. We should like to see if any Irishman, not wholly recreant to the interests and welfare of the Green Island of his birth, will in consequence of this publication give his vote to the slanderer of Ireland's best and noblest champion.

  43. Than gay Versailles or Windsor's halls, The painted, shingly town-house where The freeman's vote for Freedom falls!

  44. Still the victorious commander of the North had the address to obtain a vote of Congress directing the expedition, [FN-3] the conduct of which was entrusted to the Marquis de Lafayette.

  45. But, as we have seen, the expedition of General McIntosh, as authorized by the vote of Congress recently cited, was specially destined against the Sandusky towns.

  46. By the way, I suppose he's the proper man to vote for?

  47. I told my mother that night that I had studied the situation long enough and was fully determined to cast my vote for the Archdeacon.

  48. Selby-Harrison, the son I mean, said he'd write to the old gentleman and tell him to vote for me.

  49. Vittie was tolerably sure of two hundred voters and there were about two hundred others who hesitated between Vittie and me, but would rather cut off their right hands than vote for O'Donoghue.

  50. He wrote to his father and told him to be sure to vote for you.

  51. I would not permit a man to vote upon property issues unless he were a property owner.

  52. Women do vote in several of your States, I am told.

  53. It must be wonderful to live in a country where there is no Orthodox Church, where one can worship as one pleases, and where every one's vote is counted.

  54. When at last the vote came to be taken in the House of Lords, out of eighty members who had been present at the trial, only forty-six were present to vote, and the bill was passed by a vote of thirty-five to eleven.

  55. The Parliament passed a vote condemning this proceeding, but it was too late.

  56. For instance, it had long been the custom, in case any member of the House of Peers was absent, for him to give authority to any friend of his, who was also a member, to vote for him.

  57. Who ever heard of a vote being taken under such circumstances?

  58. The man who makes the assertion that our boys in the field, when called upon to vote on resolutions, are influenced by fear of officers, is most grossly mistaken.

  59. And why should any thing be sacred in this "section," where traitors have been fostered, and where every vote cast was for secession?

  60. They were flying before the superior and overwhelming force of the enemy, yet they were sufficiently calm and self-composed to get through with the republican formality of taking the vote of the company.

  61. These were carried, every pop, by Sherry, your correspondent being the only one having the moral courage to vote in the negative.

  62. The assembly had to vote the stranger into its membership, and then nine days after six thousand citizens had to vote for him on a secret ballot.

  63. The taint of their origin remains on them; they are not admitted to service in the Roman army and they vote after all the rest.

  64. I'll vote for it if she proposes it properly.

  65. What we want to vote about is a question of separation.

  66. You can vote for any candidate you like," snapped Helen.

  67. She arranged it all, and she deserves a hearty vote of thanks.

  68. I vote we ride as far as Ribblethwaite, leave our machines there, and then climb Hawes Fell," he announced.

  69. I like people to know I'm straight and square and above-board, and since that's put right, I vote we drop the subject.

  70. I vote we stick out, at any rate, and don't let her have everything her own way.

  71. I vote that each girl undertakes to make a certain number of articles; that would be far the easiest, and then we should know how we stand," suggested Alice O'Connor.

  72. As to the vote on the proposition of Curio, Appianus (Civil Wars, ii.

  73. On the one side were arrayed the young men and those who wished for war, and on the other the older men and the party of peace, who would be sure to vote respectively, one for the banishment of Nikias, the other for that of Alkibiades.

  74. He never omitted attending any meeting of the people and of the Senate, for he feared and kept a watch on those who were ready to vote for remissions of debts and taxes and for gifts in favour of any body.

  75. However Cato did not employ the clerk nor give him his pay, nor did he take any reckoning at all of the vote of Lollius.

  76. Upon this Marcellus the consul called Cæsar a robber, and urged the Senate to vote him an enemy, if he should not lay down his arms.

  77. It was a vote which could not possibly be carried into effect, as the money had already been spent.

  78. You will understand that with so multifarious an occupation I have little time left to call on the clergymen; as they have no vote for the election it was quite impossible.

  79. The law had to be withdrawn and the Government, instead, asked for a vote of nine million thalers, provisionally, for that year only, as a means of maintaining the army in the state to which it had been raised.

  80. If you do not vote the money, we shall take it where we can get it," Bismarck had warned them.

  81. Once, indeed, the majority in opposition to the Government went beyond the limits of reason and honour when they refused a vote of £1000 for an additional director in the Foreign Office.

  82. I have not the honour of being a member of this assembly; I have not helped to vote your standing orders; I have not joined in electing the President; I am not subject to the disciplinary power of the Chamber.

  83. Before the decisive debate came on, the majority had taken the offensive and passed what was a direct vote of want of confidence in the Ministry.

  84. I cannot regard it as a Prussian interest to wage war in order in the most favourable result to establish a new Grand Duke in Schleswig-Holstein, who out of fear of Prussian aggression would vote against us at the Diet.

  85. Bismarck would have regarded an adverse vote as a sufficient reason for retiring from the Federation altogether.

  86. On this occasion a feast and a vote of thanks was part of the programme.

  87. A {215} unanimous vote of thanks was passed in both Houses of Parliament.

  88. The proposition had its warmest sympathies; he was calling on the Chamber in the name of the Mother country, in the name of art and civilization, to vote for it.

  89. A vote of thanks was presented to him by his co-religionists--(as if Levi had any religion) which was printed in the Grey Bonnet.

  90. But he himself felt bound to vote against it, because he was of the opinion that, conformable to the idea, it was erroneous, motiveless and figurative, as it subsumed the conception of the place under that of the State.


  91. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acceptance; adherence; admiration; approbation; aye; back; ballot; blessing; canvass; cloture; colonization; contribute; countenance; debate; deliberation; divide; division; elect; election; endorse; endorsement; esteem; favor; filibuster; filing; floating; franchise; indorse; introduction; join; nay; nod; nominate; partake; participate; plebiscite; plump; poll; proxy; referendum; representation; respect; sanction; say; suffrage; support; ticket; voice; vote; voting; yea; yes


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    vote against; vote and hold office; vote for; vote shall; vote upon; voted against; voted down; voted upon; votes against; votes cast; votes shall; votes were