Example sentences of "[verb] by [adj] votes " in BNC.
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| 1 | SDLP , Alliance and Sinn Fein members voted against the proposal by the DUP 's Sammy Wilson , but unionists won by 22 votes to 16 . |
| 2 | In the Vale of Glamorgan , which the Tories won by 19 votes after a second recount , 64 overseas voters registered in time to vote . |
| 3 | Ray Michie ( Lib Dem , Argyll and Bute ) was also strongly against the order , which the Government won by seven votes to four . |
| 4 | By 10pm , they were all back in the House to hear that the government had won by three votes . |
| 5 | On Oct. 4 Memphis , Tennessee , elected its first black mayor , Willie Herenton , who defeated by 172 votes the two-term incumbent Richard Hackett . |
| 6 | Deputies to the Supreme Soviet voted by 375 votes to four that the Congress should elect the 542 members of the Supreme Soviet afresh , from among the 2,250 congressional deputies . |
| 7 | On May 20 the UN Security Council voted by 14 votes to none , with one abstention ( Cuba ) , to approve Resolution 692 establishing a Compensation Fund to be financed by Iraq 's oil exports to pay damages incurred by foreign governments and nationals during the Gulf war [ see p. 37759 ] . |
| 8 | The Senate voted by 74 votes to 25 and the House by 308 votes to 114 to overturn Bush 's Oct. 3 veto of the measure . |
| 9 | At the end of the day 's session , the Congress of People 's Deputies voted by 530 votes to 236 to ‘ accept as a basis for discussion ’ a declaration that should free ministers ' hands to press ahead with free market policies . |
| 10 | The Ukrainian parliament voted by 340 votes to six on May 13 to annul the independence declaration as against the Constitution . |
| 11 | On July 17 the RF Supreme Soviet , as the legal successor to the USSR Supreme Soviet , voted by 136 votes to 23 ( with 12 abstentions ) to take control of the newspaper Izvestiya . |
| 12 | On Sept. 24 the Senate voted by 68 votes to 31 to override the veto . |
| 13 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 14 | On June 28 , he suffered a major setback when the lower house voted by 283 votes to 100 , with nine abstentions , to overrule his veto , thus requiring him to sign the bill into law within six days . |
| 15 | On June 13 he received a standing ovation from the European Parliament in Strasbourg ; on the following day the Parliament voted by 177 votes to 47 with five abstentions in favour of a resolution to maintain sanctions [ see p. 37521 for June EC Foreign Ministers ' summit meeting in Dublin ; for February United Kingdom decision to lift some sanctions see p. 37234 ] . |
| 16 | The conference voted by 4,592,000 votes to 1,443,000 to reject a motion advocating the setting up of a working party to consider options for electoral reform . |
| 17 | The 79-member Constituent Assembly , the majority of whose members were directly elected in December 1990 to draft a new constitution [ see pp. 37450 ; 37914 ] , voted by 54 votes to nine on June 8 to dissolve the existing Congress on July 2 , although it still had 2@1/2 years to run , and to hold fresh legislative elections on Oct. 27 . |
| 18 | On Jan. 16 the Supreme Council had voted by 54 votes to 47 to give Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar special powers to deal with the crisis . |
| 19 | Delegates at a congress of the ruling Labour Party on Nov. 8 had voted by 183 votes to 106 in favour of re-applying . |
| 20 | MPs voted by 348 votes to 123 last night in favour of legislating to allow the prosecution of alleged war criminals now living in Britain for crimes committed in Germany or German-occupied territory during the last war . |
| 21 | When the committee voted , the measure was carried by nine votes to eight , with all the Tories voting for and all the Opposition voting against . |
| 22 | To cheers , it was announced yesterday morning that a composite motion reaffirming full equality and 16 years as the age of homosexual consent had been carried by 3,702,000 votes to 2,317,000 . |
| 23 | The proposed ban was eventually carried by 7 votes to 5 , but hunt supporters believe they 'll win the full vote next month . |
| 24 | The Macedonian government offered its resignation on July 16 after a vote of no confidence was carried by 91 votes to two with seven abstentions in the Macedonian Assembly on July 7 . |
| 25 | The Lancashire Division publicized this viewpoint through its paper Northern Voice , and at the York Annual ILP Conference of 1934 an NAC Report , censuring the Division for its actions , was carried by 135 votes to 31 . |
| 26 | On a free vote the amendment was carried by 292 votes to 246 , a majority of forty six . |
| 27 | On 26 May 1965 a new clause proposed by Brooke , with support coming mainly from Conservative members , was carried by 176 votes to 128 which had the effect that the Act should expire on 31 July 1970 , unless Parliament by affirmative resolution of both Houses otherwise determined . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the SDPJ members boycotted the final vote , and the bill was carried by 329 votes to 17 . |
| 29 | At the 1938 ILP conference a resolution was carried by 55 votes to 49 " to approach the Labour Party for the purpose of securing the maximum common action against the National Government , united action on class issues and an electoral understanding " . |
| 30 | On 9 February 1988 the House resolved by 318 votes to 263 to approve in principle ‘ the holding of an experiment in the public broadcasting of its proceedings by television … ’ ; a select committee , chaired by the Leader of the House , was appointed to consider the implementation of the experiment ; and on 12 June 1989 the House endorsed , by a majority of 293 to 69 , the report of the Committee . |