Example sentences of "hold a ballot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Executive resolved that the Transport Workers ' Federation should be informed that a national strike " would be detrimental to all concerned " , but that if such a call was made the union would hold a ballot before striking . |
| 2 | A ballot of parents has to be held before a transfer to grant-maintained status can be accomplished , the decision to hold a ballot being taken either by resolution of the governing body or at the request of a percentage of the parents . |
| 3 | The BCP supreme council , meeting on Feb. 23 , decided to hold a ballot of all party members in May on a proposal that the party should be renamed the Bulgarian Socialist Party . |
| 4 | Would ‘ the authorising or endorsing of industrial action ’ extend to failing to hold a ballot on whether to call off industrial action , if the rules required this ? s9 |
| 5 | That represents sixty percent of secondary schools and seventeen percent of primary schools and despite the er endeavour to which he refers of Essex county council , I can tell him that the latest school to decide to hold a ballot on such status is Notley High School , Braintree . |
| 6 | The club thought the fairest way to decide which disabled fans went to Wembley was to hold a ballot . |
| 7 | However , before we could recommend our members to take industrial action we would have to hold a ballot . ’ |
| 8 | To hold a ballot for strike action on this issue at some point in the future dependent on the success of the actions outlined above . |
| 9 | Mr Scargill pointed out that the Polish union Solidarity , repeatedly praised from the rostrum , had not held a ballot before taking strike action . |
| 10 | White collar workers at Bristol , Rolls-Royce 's second biggest plant , have already held a ballot and rejected industrial action . |
| 11 | Last year , this union held a ballot and a hundred and forty thousand members took part in that ballot for the leader of the Labour Party and they made it absolutely clear to the executive that as far as they were concerned they wanted a part and a say in who was the leader of the Labour Party , and they di decided dem democratically . |
| 12 | Similarly , four of the five in the ‘ in-between ’ group held a ballot , with 52 per cent support in Northumberland , 50 per cent in Derbyshire , 41 per cent in Lancashire , and just 8 per cent in Cumberland ; there was no ballot in Durham . |
| 13 | None of the four fields in the ‘ militant ’ group held a ballot ; in all four , the miners were prepared to strike following their local Executive 's call , and to remain on strike , in the great majority of cases , until the return to work a year later . |