"I am a good deal occupied as a magistrate, and in the collection of documentary evidence, but I regard my time as being at the disposal of the public--and, in short, my friends have convinced me that a chaplain with a salary--a salary, you know-- is a very good thing, and I am happy to be able to come here and vote for the appointment of Mr.
"I suppose we all know whom we mean to vote for. Any man who wants to do justice does not wait till the last minute to hear both sides of the question.
It would really have been a matter of total indifference to him--that is to say, he would have taken the more convenient side, and given his vote for the appointment of Tyke without any hesitation--if he had not cared personally for Mr.
Middlemarch
"Now just why did you vote for it?" Charmian asked.
"When the women get the ballot, they will vote for prohibition," I said.
And when they come to vote, they will vote for prohibition.
John Barleycorn
"So he is in some things, but I shall not
vote for him, Polly; you know what his trade is?"
Black Beauty
They were even, some of them, going to
vote for him, and purposely to let him get a good many votes, so that the enemy might be thrown off the scent, and when a candidate of the other side was put up, they too might give him some votes.
Anna Karenina
The same principle prevails also in the choice of their senate; the manner of electing which is favourable also to an oligarchy; for all are obliged to
vote for those who are senators of the first class, afterwards they
vote for the same number out of the second, and then out of the third; but this compulsion to vote at the election of senators does not extend to the third and fourth classes and the first and second class only are obliged to
vote for the fourth.
A Treatise on Government
When the majority shall at length
vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Get ready to punch the dial pad and
vote for your favorite Idol contestant.
The science of American
* The chief election officer of each state must determine the total popular
vote for president/vice president in the entire nation even though some states may not have subscribed to the agreement.
Assault on the electoral college: a plan to give the presidency to the candidate with the most nationwide votes would make less-populous states irrelevant in presidential elections
Plenty of opposition existed, according to Collins: Democrats feared women would
vote for the more socially progressive Republicans.
1920: women get the vote: the 19th Amendment was ratified 85 years ago, after decades of campaigning by the women's suffrage movement
All he has to do is allow a free vote--a vote on which not even the Liberal cabinet is compelled to vote in favour of same-sex "marriage." The Bloc Quebecois will vote in favour of it, the Conservatives will vote against it, a handful of Liberals will
vote for it, but the majority even of Liberals will use their good sense and vote the measure down.
Arrogant judicial power
It was proposed again in 2004, and Xcel recommended shareholders
vote for the proposal, which was approved and implemented.
Giving shareholders short shrift: research shows that public companies decline to act on a substantial percentage of shareholder votes. Companies often say they know best, but some critics say they should be more accountable