Sentences with phrase «example voted it number»

- onto their list of Top 100 Sci - Fi Movies of All Time (the Online Film Critics Society for example voted it number 28).

Not exact matches

For example, if one of the areas you want to say you have experienced and impacted within the time - frame you have chosen is around U.S. voting numbers, you would probably want to have worked with your local representative's office or powerful and politically influential organizations such as the League of Women Voters or AARP.

For example, Devine alleges that on May 6 then - president Wright unilaterally appointed Kathi Jackson to one of two seats vacant on the board — despite the fact that there weren't the requisite number of commissioners present to participate in the vote.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

They could, for example, lose a large number of seats with 49 % of the votes.

This is similar to majority voting, but allows additional deliberation about the two most viable candidates even if one of them wins a majority in the first round, on the ground that, for example, everyone may be familiar with an incumbent, but not with a number of challengers, and that once the number of challengers is narrowed to one and people have a chance to examine the challenger more carefully, they may change their minds.

For example, the Conservatives largely benefited from the discrepancy between votes and seats, winning 56 % of English seats on 46 % of the vote — while seeing their vote rise in Wales and their number of seats fall.

But solution 2 will not work if for example there are exactly four persons receiving electoral votes, each with the same number of votes exactly.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

Some real - life examples include reducing the number of polling stations and voting machines in some areas.

As a historical example, in 1854 it took 9 weeks and over 130 votes before a new Speaker was elected - prompting a change in rules to make winning easier (The winner only has to receive the most votes regardless of the number of ballots cast rather than an absolute majority of > 50 % of the congressional seats).

Farias attributes her loss in the South Bronx district to a number of advantages benefitting Diaz, Sr. «Name recognition, having a similar name as our borough president for example, these are things that definitely played a large role in the folks that came out and either weren't touched enough or came out to vote and didn't get enough information on anyone in the race,» said Farias, in reference to Diaz, Sr.'s son, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr..

«I'm convinced that the example of the Cameron Government and the similar commitments to fixing the public finances given by [Liberal leader] Tony Abbott have led Australians living in London to vote for the Liberals in substantial numbers.»

A number of MPs campaigned differently from the way their constituency voted, for example the Labour MP for Vauxhall, Kate Hoey, who backed Brexit, while only 22 % of her constituents voted to leave.

I'll be able to say, for example, that x number of people voted for the number 25, that 30 per cent of them were women and break this down by age and country.

If the initiative gathers the requisite number of signatures to be on the ballot, with a single vote this November, California's voters could eliminate one of the most egregious examples of inequity in its educational system — and it won't cost taxpayers any additional funds to do it.

Just the staff and authors beholden to Tor, for example, are quite large enough in number to successfully get a book / story nominated, and seriously compromise the final voting.

For example, many investors thought the bull market's days were numbered last summer in the wake of Brexit, or the UK's vote to pull out of the European Union.

For example, in order to hit the ball out of the park as he did, he probably made a number of very astute predictions about how certain ethnic groups» votes would break down.

As a recent and unfortunate example, we recently observed a number of lawyers, i.e. the five Conservative federal MPs who are lawyers in Ontario, along with Liberal MP Gagan Sikand, fail in their duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusiveness in their public life by voting against or abstaining from voting in favour of M - 103, a a non-binding parliamentary motion condemning Islamophobia and religious discrimination, thereby undermining public trust and confidence in the legal profession.

Twitter talked about this yesterday — there were a number of accounts on Twitter last fall that encouraged people to «vote by text,» for example, which is not a valid way to vote in a U.S. election.