Example sentences of "[noun pl] vote for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an emergency congressional session on Oct. 18 pro-government deputies voted for the dismissal of the right-wing opposition Congress president ( Speaker ) , Averroes Bucaram Ortiz , and his replacement by Edelberto Bonilla Oleas . |
| 2 | In June , two million West Germans voted for the party in the European Parliament elections , sending Schönhuber and five colleagues to Strassburg . |
| 3 | Despite the Italian economic crisis , Giuliano Amato promised 19 December at an interministerial meeting that not a lira would be cut from the special funds voted for the protection of Venice and that the money would become available immediately , none having been provided during 1992 ( The Art Newspaper No. 23 Dec 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 4 | All major opposition parties voted for the bills , whose adoption marked the first time since 1945 that an opposition bill had been passed in the Upper House . |
| 5 | At the Suffolk elections of 1705 and 1710 , 80 per cent of the clergy voted for the two Tory candidates . |
| 6 | On 20 February , you published my letter , which proposed that Labour and the Liberal Democrats should each withdraw from 50 seats that they had no chance of winning , and encourage their supporters to vote for the other party . |
| 7 | ( The Australian Conservation Foundation and the Wilderness Society , the country 's two main environmentalist groups , called on their supporters to vote for the Democrats — the centre party which held the balance of power in the Senate but which possessed no seats in the House of Representatives — but to direct their second preferences to the ALP . ) |
| 8 | So , for high taxes vote for the Labour party , and for low taxes vote Conservative . |
| 9 | After an emotional seven-hour debate the House amendment was approved by 254 votes to 177 , with 95 Democrats and 159 Republicans voting for the measure and 160 Democrats and 17 Republicans voting against . |
| 10 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 11 | Margaret Wilson , who chairs the residents ' organisation , has written to the licensing board to encourage members to vote for the proposals . |
| 12 | THE Danes voted for the same treaty yesterday that they rejected last June because they were misled by the media and politicians , claimed an East Anglian Tory Euro-rebel . |
| 13 | Gallup Poll data showed that in these four elections , 79% or more of upper-middle-class voters and 69% or more of middle-class voters cast their votes for the Conservative party , while more than 50% of working-class and very poor voters voted for the Labour party . |
| 14 | Anti-EC Tory MP William Cash dismissed the German cut as a bribe to French voters to vote for the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 15 | Eanes had himself urged voters to vote for the PSD . |
| 16 | Almost all Protestants voted for the Unionist Party and Catholics either voted for nationalists or abstained . |
| 17 | The right for women to vote for the President of the United States was introduced in Wyoming in 1869 , when , according to Abler , Adams and Gould ( 1971 , p.446 ) ‘ frontier men and women chafed under archaic and undemocratic laws carried earlier from the East ’ . |
| 18 | This was held on 17 November 1933 , women voting for the first time . |
| 19 | Most Labour MPs voted for the motion , most Liberal Democrats , including Mr Paddy Ashdown , voted against — as did Dr David Owen . |
| 20 | A large majority of North-East Labour MPs voted for the Bill , and most of the region 's Tories against it . |
| 21 | With the outcome a foregone conclusion , House Democratic leaders did not exert pressure on their colleagues to vote for the motion . |
| 22 | However , the need to maximize the anti-power sharing vote convinced both DUP and Vanguard to instruct their followers to vote for the other party as their second or third preference in what was to be a single transferable vote type of proportional representation election . |
| 23 | In the House of Representatives the administration 's position was accepted by 250 votes to 183 , with 86 Democrats voting for the use of force . |