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Proposition 14 was turned down by a vote of over 65%.

The government approved the motion by a vote of 246 - 31.

The proposal was defeated by a vote of 15 - 10.

The proposed bylaw was defeated by a vote of 5-3.

All that in old times was to be gained by the deposition of a King can now be gained by a vote of censure on a Minister, or, in the extremest case, by his impeachment.

The same ends can now be gained by a vote of censure in the House of Commons; in many cases they can be gained even without a vote of censure, by the101 simple throwing out of a measure by which a Ministry has given out that it will stand or fall(56).

txt Newt Gingrich was re-elected House speaker by a vote of 216-205.

If this drags on for too long, and Iran (say) seems inexcusably obstinate, it can be judged noncompliant by a vote of convention members, and sanctioned accordingly.

When judgment day came on May 16, Johnson survived by a vote of 35-19, one shy of the two-thirds needed to convict.

Supporters are encouraged to stuff virtual ballot boxes by a vote online page, which links to Internet polls.

Article 1, alleging Clinton committed perjury in the grand jury, was defeated by a vote of 55 to 45.

Finally, in January, 1826, a bill enlarging the Court to ten judges passed the House by a vote of 132 to 27.

In the end, the latter point of view prevailed: the bill to repeal, which had come up in the House, was rejected by a vote of 138 to 51, and of the latter number all but six came from Southern States, and more than half of them from natives of Virginia.

But such, sir, have been the proofs of implicit confidence, which the administration has received from this assembly, that it is now common to demand unlimited powers, and to expect confidence without restriction, to require an immediate possession of our estates by a vote of credit, or the sole direction of our trade by an act for prohibiting, during their pleasure, the exportation of the produce of our lands.

Frequently a man of great, sometimes even a man of small fortune, is willing to purchase a thousand pounds share in India stock, merely for the influence which he expects to aquire by a vote in the court of proprietors.

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