Poll Sentence Examples

If a second poll is necessary a relative majority is sufficient.

Poll results listed a mixed bag.

The hut and poll taxes yield about £62,000 a year.

Any subdistrict, town or city of the fifth or sixth class may provide for a graded school by voting for an ad valorem and poll tax which is limited as to amount.

Poll taxes are levied by the counties and townships for school and local purposes.

A poll tax is required of all males between the ages of 21 and 60 years, one half of which goes to the county in which it is collected and the rest to the state.

One Gallup poll at the time said more people knew about the trial than knew the full name of the president.

There is no doubt but that in the Maccabean times and onward 218 was the shekel; but the use of the word darkemon by Ezra and Nehemiah, and the probabilities of their case, point to the daragmaneh, 1/60 maneh or shekel of Assyria; and the mention of 1/3 shekel by Nehemiah as poll tax nearly proves that the 129 and not 218 grains is intended, as 218 is not divisible by 3.

The contest resulted in his return at the head of the poll.

If this is so, then how come several major parties and the majority of Sunnis in central Iraq boycotted the poll?

If no one has cast a vote then users can delete the poll or edit any poll option.

Election officials reported a 75 per cent turnout in the poll.

Take Part in our poll Have you visited a zoo during the past 2 years?

Why not do a straw poll in your office or a quick vox pop to see what the local picture is like.

In Conde Nast Traveler magazine's ninth annual "Reader's Cruise Poll," Disney Magic scored a Top 5 in the Large Cruise Ship category with an overall rating of 85.9 (only 2.5 points from the top spot, held by Disney Wonder).

The poll reflected the opinions of 90,000 readers.

I think the greatest disservice done was Thatcher with the Poll Tax.

The poll also suggests that the public are increasingly distrustful of what ministers tell them about the terror threat facing the country.

Section 6 will allow electors to register closer to the date of the poll.

The following month saw Mike come eleventh in a Welsh Assembly Government-backed poll of the top 100 Welsh heroes!

The milk of the Red Poll is higher in protein and has smaller fat globules than other breeds such as the Fresian.

Kay tops TV one-liner poll Peter Kay's ' garlic bread ' catchphrase has been named the best comedy one-liner in British TV history.

The poll showed that 59 percent of respondents thought that Australian troops should be withdrawn and 36 percent of respondents thought that Australian troops should be withdrawn and 36 percent said they should stay.

A straw poll of New Insight staff in the office on one day showed that 100 per cent had tried it.

The result was repeated at the most recent poll in March 2003.

A nationwide poll suggests most people would like the government to take more action to improve public health.

Putin then won the presidential poll in March 2000.

A 1989 Gallup poll seemed to show strong support of the use of animals in biomedical research.

The idea is to replicate the name change shown on your lost deed poll document.

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As usual with their important campaigns like this they had a phone-in poll last week.

Originally set up to fight the poll tax, they decided to carry on after the tax was defeated.

Basil's road rage tops poll Source - Thursday, October 21, 1999.

Mexico full poll recount rejected Mexico's electoral body rejects a request for a full recount of votes from July's disputed election.

The ID card lunacy alone should have the free citizens of Britain pouring into the streets à la poll tax riots.

The point I stressed in my book is that Peter ended this sort of slavery by making former slaves subject to the poll tax.

The poll will take place once a shortlist has been compiled following informal soundings within the partnership.

A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph on Friday showed that the " trust " factor remains a thorn in Blair's side.

And don't forget to make your opinion count in this month's online poll with regards to " Who is a better tipper?

A Joseph Rowntree Poll in 2000 found that 30 per cent of those polled agreed or tended to agree with compulsory turnout.

The latest poll also found nearly one in five respondents expects turnover to grow by more than 15% .

Back on ship Neil still tussled with getting his e-mail to poll correctly after getting rather clogged up with attachments.

Usdaw, the shopworkers ' union with many members in Tesco stores, produced a similar NOP poll result.

The legislature has the right to make the payment of the poll tax a requirement for voting, but no such provision is in force.

In 1897 a law was passed making the right of suffrage dependent on the payment of poll taxes for the preceding two years; but in the following year the State Supreme Court declared this act unconstitutional because the title was not descriptive of the matter.

All persons otherwise qualified may place their names on the voting register, provided they can read and write any section of the constitution in the English language and have paid on or before the ist of May the poll tax for the previous year.

Basil 's road rage tops poll Source - Thursday, October 21, 1999.

Mexico full poll recount rejected Mexico 's electoral body rejects a request for a full recount of votes from July 's disputed election.

The 1837 poll book describes him as a redware potter.

A Birmingham newspaperâs poll also revealed more than 50 per cent expect Villa to be fighting relegation again.

This is just a straw poll of MEPs - nothing more.

In the same issue, an opinion poll labeled him a " Taliban fighter ".

A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph on Friday showed that the " trust " factor remains a thorn in Blair 's side.

And do n't forget to make your opinion count in this month 's online poll with regards to Who is a better tipper?

The latest poll also found nearly one in five respondents expects turnover to grow by more than 15 %.

I 'd like to hear the comments of the people who have voted yes in this poll !

The poll aggregator used data from 12 different sources to accurately predict the outcome of the election.

The American Shorthair was the eighth most popular breed in 2010 and continues to rank high in the public poll for favorite cats.

Rather than using a single metric, OKC allows you to use any user-generated poll to determine who is match and who isn't.

During this quick-paced game you play against a timer to see how your answers to questions compare to those given by 100 poll takers.

A 2008 Pew Research poll indicates that an impressive 97 percent of all teens aged 12 to 17 play either PC-based, online, portable or console games.

A 2006 poll by CBSNews.com found that one in every five U.S. teens -- 14 percent of girls and 24 percent of boys -- admits to using the Internet at least once to plagiarize information for school assignments.

Combining an eclectic fashion sense with chiseled good looks, Pattinson was named Entertainment Tonight's Top Hunk of 2008, and earned the top spot in Glamour magazine's Sexiest Man Alive poll.

The poll stated that over 65% of the population in the United States would use the word "sexy" to describe this exotic beauty.

She ranked as the sexiest woman alive in FHM's poll.

Despite being number two in the ratings, Letterman consistently ranks higher than Leno in a yearly poll for the "Nation's Favorite TV Personality."

Us magazine - This celebrity news magazine site offers photo gallery slideshows and a style section with red carpet coverage, fashion police photos, a style poll and more.

Don't forget to take the daily poll or check out the site's most popular celebrity news videos.

It was the third time the winners of these pop culture awards were decided by online voters instead of a Gallup poll.

At that time the best option for finding out what the "people's choices" were was to run a Gallup Poll.

In February 2006, the reader's poll from Conde Nast Traveler magazine ranked various Celebrity cruise ships in the top four slots for best dining experiences.

In fact, this dog lists as number 24 in a recent poll of the Top 25 Dog Breeds in the United States according to the site.

An online poll about capris shows overwhelming opinion that men should have the option to wear the style, but also acknowledges that society forces gender roles on clothing.

For people working in care facilities where outings are frequent, take a poll of the residents to find out how many people would like to play with animals for 30 minutes or so, and plan a bi-weekly trip.

Taking place nationally in early March, it begins by sharing information and poll results about the status of sleep for people who live in the United States.

In 2010, the sleeping poll focused on sleep and ethnicity, finding that people of various ethnic groups are only getting an adequate sleep a few days per week.

To see all of the poll results from previous years, visit the National Sleep Foundation poll results.

According to a poll on an Airstream forum, 40 percent of people who have tackled airstream renovations have spent over $2,5000.00 on their restorations.

A poll showed that about 41 percent of 15,000 science professionals in 62 countries said they would use St. John's wort for mild to moderate depression.

A recent poll conducted by Yoga Journal found that 11 million Americans do yoga at least occasionally and 6 million perform it regularly.

According to the "2004 Sleep in America Poll" published by the National Sleep Foundation, 69 percent of children younger than age 10 experience problems with sleep that may occur as often as several times a week.

As reported in Manchester Online, Luci Wiggs, a research fellow at Oxford University, is co-author of a 2004 poll of more than 1,000 parents with children four to 10 years of age.

One poll found that in the summer of 1997, 13 percent of children had developed a sunburn in the preceding week.

A recent newspaper poll shows an almost 90 percent approval rate from the community regarding the work that they do.

The Fairmont, which was designated San Francisco Landmark No. 185 in 1986, was named one of America's 150 Favorite Architectural Works in a public poll sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2007.

A 2008 opinion poll states that of the 10+ billion videos watched online every year, movie trailers are the third most popular.

In addition you can post new poll questions, and see results tallied automatically.

Poll students to see what book is the most popular.

At that time, a local television station ran a poll and discovered that only half of Green Bay fans cared whether there were cheerleaders at the games.

You have to think outside the box, and it can't hurt to poll the students on the kind of pep rally they like the most.

Based on our Panty Poll of over 5000 members to the website, 60 percent are 46 or older.

As a thank-you to their ever-increasing fan base, they began a poll of which songs should be on the 2-disc album, 'Long Distance', which was released in October '96 and hit number 13 on the charts.

While here, you can also download all sorts of other fun things like MySpace games, poll generators, and videos.

You can find more great reunion game ideas by visiting a reunion planning website, or by taking a poll of your gathering's attendees beforehand to get an idea of what will be a success.

Poll your guests ahead of time to find out what their interests are, and don't forget to suggest that they bring extra game console controllers!

It's also a great idea to poll your friends to see which kind of games they enjoy playing.

You can post in the forum, post a video or add a poll if you like.

According to an informal poll conducted by Scientific American, approximately ten percent of television viewers fall into this addicted category.

The same poll also showed that over 24 million people in the United States leave their social networking profiles "mostly public."

At the general election of 1790 he came forward as a candidate for that distinguished constituency, in opposition to Fox and Lord Hood, but was defeated; and, at a second trial in 1796, he was again at the bottom of the poll.

Since 1906 a poll tax of £i a head is also levied on all males over eighteen, European or native.

In 1905 a poll tax of £1 on all adult males was imposed by the Natal legislature; this tax was the ostensible cause of a revolt in 1906 among the natives of Natal, who were largely of Zulu origin.

Taxes on imports and exports, not exceeding the equivalent of io% ad valorem, direct taxation of Europeans, and a poll tax on native adult males, a tax on ivory and the Government share in the exploitation of mines were the chief sources of revenue; the administrative services and interest on debt the largest items of expenditure.

The nomination at Oxford took place on the 29th of July, and at the close of the poll Sir Robert Inglis stood at the head, with Gladstone as his colleague.

Gladstone kept his seat for Greenwich, but was only second on the poll.

The submission may be missions; effected sometimes by parol, sometimes by written instrument, sometimes by deed or deed poll.

The chief sources of revenue are poll and house taxes, and, in Mayotte, a land tax.

A few states require the payment of a poll tax.

The conference at once resolved that all privileges conferred by Wesley's Poll Deed should be accorded to every preacher in full connexion.

A considerable extension of the three years' term has been secured in certain cases by a legal device for escaping the provisions of the eleventh clause of Wesley's Deed Poll, but some more satisfactory method of dealing with the subject is under consideration.

Within the outer municipal boundary are included (besides Deutz) the suburbs of Bayenthal, Lindenthal, Ehrenfeld, Nippes, Sulz, Bickendorf, Niehl and Poll, protected by another widely extended circle of detached forts on both banks of the Rhine.

In this election he led the poll in Sangamon county.

Partly to provide for the expenses of this court, partly to furnish Maximilian with the promised monetary aid, a tax called the common penny was instituted, this impost taking the form both of a property tax and of a poll tax.

The numbers who went to the poll were much larger, and all the opposition parties, except the Catholics, including even the Socialists, suffered severe loss.

In the elections of 1907, indeed, the Social Democratic party, owing to the unparalleled exertion of the government, had a set-back, its representation in parliament sinking to 43; but at the International Socialist Congress, which met at Stuttgart on the 18th of August, Herr Bebel was able to point oui that, in spite of its defeat at the polls, the Socialist cause had actually gained strength in the country, their total poll having increased from 3,010,771.

A poll tax is imposed on the natives.

At Cambridge there is no intermediate examination between the " Previous Examination " (commonly called " Little-go "), which corresponds to Oxford " Responsions " or " Smalls " and the triposes and examinations for the " Poll " degree, which correspond to the Oxford final honours and pass examinations respectively.

He was once more returned at the head of the poll for Derby, and by a huge majority.

The germs of rival systems can be traced in the old military and other service tenures of Assam, and in the poll tax of Burma, &c. The exclusive development of the land system is due to two conditions, - a comparatively high state of agriculture and an organized plan of administration, - both of which are supplied by the primitive village community.

In 1831 he published his important Essentials of Parliamentary Reform (an elaboration of his previous Statement), and, after refusing to stand as parliamentary candidate for the city in 1831, changed his mind and was elected head of the poll, with three other Liberals, in December 1832.

The principal sources of revenue are a general property tax, a tax on the gross receipts of express companies, a tax on the gross products of mines, an inheritance tax, a poll tax and the sale of liquor licences.

To be entitled to vote one must be a male citizen of the United States and twenty-one years of age; have been a resident of the state for two years, of the county, city, or town for one year, and of the election precinct for thirty days next preceding the election; have paid, at least six months before the election, all state poll taxes assessed against him for three years next preceding the election, unless he is a veteran of the Civil War; and have registered after the adoption of the constitution (1902).

And to qualify for registration after 1904 one must have paid all state poll taxes assessed against him for the three years immediately preceding his application, unless he is a veteran of the Civil War; and unless physically unable he must "make application in his own handwriting, without aid, suggestion or memorandum, in the presence of the registration officers, stating therein his name, age, date and place of birth, residence and occupation at the time and for two years next preceding, whether he has previously voted, and, if so, the state, county and precinct in which he voted last"; and must answer questions relating to his qualifications.

The elementary schools are maintained from the proceeds of the state school funds, consisting of interest on the literary fund, a portion of the state poll tax, a property tax not less than one mill nor more than five mills on the dollar, and special appropriations; county funds, consisting principally of a property tax; and district funds, consisting principally of a property tax and a dog tax.

He entered the London County Council in 1892 as member for Deptford, and was returned at the head of the poll in the successive elections of 1895, 1898, 1901 and 1904.

A poll tax is levied by the state for school purposes and may also be levied by municipalities.

The proceeds of the poll tax are distributed in the counties in which the tax is collected.

Privileged towns, receiving their privileges from the government (not necessarily on the basis of population), are under a mayor (borgmastare) and aldermen (radman), the aldermen being elected by the citizens, while the mayor is appointed by the government from the first three aldermen on the poll, is paid, and holds office for life.

The motion calling on him to resign was carried on a poll being taken by 46,770 votes to 2953.

The poll tax is restricted almost entirely to municipalities, which devote the proceeds to roads and schools.

Candidates are nominated in writing by a nomination paper signed by a proposer and seconder, and subscribed by eight other assenting county electors of the division; and in the event of there being more valid nominations than vacancies a poll has to be taken in the manner prescribed by the Ballot Act 1872.

Payment on account of the conveyance of electors to or from the poll; payment for any committee room in excess of a prescribed number; the incurring of expenses in and about the election beyond a certain maximum; employing, for the conveyance of electors to or from the poll, hackney carriages or carriages kept for hire; payments for bands, flags, cockades, &c.; employing for payment persons at the election beyond the prescribed number; printing and publishing bills, placards or posters which do not disclose the name and address of the printer or publisher; using as committee rooms or for meetings any licensed premises, or any premises where food or drink is ordinarily sold for consumption on the premises, or any club premises where intoxicating liquor is supplied to members.

The resolution must have been published in newspapers circulated in the district, and must have received the consent of the Local Government Board or of a secretary of state, if the matter is one within his jurisdiction; and further, the expenses must not be incurred unless the promotion or opposition has been assented to by the owners and ratepayers of the district assembled at a meeting convened for the purpose of considering the matter, and if necessary, signified by a poll.

If a poll is demanded, it must be taken under the Ballot Act, as applied by the rules, and for all practical purposes it may be taken that the election proceeds in the same manner as that of a district council.

The chief sources of the state's revenue are a general property tax and taxes on the franchises of corporations, especially those of railway and insurance companies and savings banks; among the smaller sources are licences or fees, a poll tax, and a collateral inheritance tax.

The same year she was elected to the first London School Board, at the head of the poll for Marylebone, and was also made one of the visiting physicians of the East London hospital for children; but the duties of these two positions she found to be incompatible with her principal work, and she soon resigned them.

In 1865 (unopposed) and in 1868 (at the head of the poll) he was again returned.

An Oxford Down ram has a bold masculine head; the poll well covered with wool and the forehead adorned by a topknot; ears self-coloured, upright, and of fair length; face of uniform dark brown colour; legs short, dark, and free from spots; back level and chest wide; and the fleece heavy and thick.

Sir Robert stood at the head of the poll with 125 votes, Newton next with 122 and Mr Finch was last with 117 votes.

He was returned to the House of Commons in that year for the Irish borough of Carlow, and became a devoted admirer and adherent of Mr Gladstone; but he was practically a silent member, and his parliamentary career came to an end after the general election of 1865, when, having headed the poll for Bridgnorth, he was unseated on a scrutiny; he contested Bridgnorth again in 1868, but without success.

The third time, the Commons gave the seat to which Wilkes was a third time chosen to Colonel Luttreli, who was far down in the poll.

A poll tax is levied for highway purposes in towns and villages, but the general charter law does not provide for the collection of poll taxes in cities.

The elections for this Assembly were held in the summer of 1910, and Venizelos himself (who had never ceased to retain his Greek citizenship, while in Cretan political life) headed the poll at Athens.

This, the famous " Freeport Doctrine," lost to Douglas the support of a large element of his party in the South, and in Illinois his followers did not poll so large a vote as Lincoln's.

He cynically avowed a greater liking for the poll tax paid by the Christian than for his conversion.

As the conquerors swept away the Roman fiscal system, which the Visigoths had retained, and replaced it by a poll tax (which was not levied on old men, women, children, cripples or the very poor) and a land tax, the gain to the downtrodden serfs of the fisc was immense.

He did great good in regulating the finances by attempting to divide the taille or poll tax more equally, by abolishing the "vingtieme d'industrie," and establishing monts de piete (establishments for loaning money on security).

There is a military commutation tax of $2, and all persons neglecting to pay it or to pay the poll tax are liable to imprisonment.

The right of suffrage is given to every male citizen of the United States who has attained the age of twenty-one years and has been a resident of the state for one year, provided he has paid his poll tax and has not been convicted of bribery, larceny or other infamous crime.

The state revenue is derived from a general property tax, a poll tax, an income tax, a tax on transfers of realty, an ad valorem tax on the average capital invested by merchants in their business, a privilege tax on merchants and many other occupations and businesses; a tax on litigation, levied on the unsuccessful party, a collateral inheritance tax, and fines and forfeitures.

They will boycott the Senate poll.

Manifest has noted that approximately a dozen companies have failed to record abstentions in their proxy poll disclosures.

Kate will be having words with the Poll Gremlins before we try something so audacious again.

Balletco Poll Which unpublished autobiography would you most want to read?

I just saw the poll for the first time that 48% think creationism should be taught as fact.

Rail privatization was once dubbed poll tax on wheels.

Another fan poll bites the dust for another year.

Of course the license fee is a form of poll tax.

And yet the majority of Britons hold firm and, as the poll showed, factually incorrect, beliefs about asylum seekers.

The Poll Dorset ewe gave birth to a ram lamb on Saturday 14th May.

The poll tax raised awareness of local taxation to fever pitch for a few years.

I conducted a poll among my friends, texting them to ask " Who is James Blake?

Back in 2002, you may recall, the BBC commissioned a telephone poll of viewers to find the greatest Briton of all time.

The interim results from the PMlifeline online poll gives a resounding thumbs up to web based training.

In Scotland, a Mori poll was undertaken in 2002 regarding wind farms in the Argyll area.

The property of the Army in the United Kingdom is held by the General for the time being, for the benefit of the Army exclusively, he being constituted the sole trustee of the property, in the disposal of which and in the appointment of his successor he is placed under the government of a deed poll, executed by Booth while the body was still known as "The Christian Mission," and enrolled in the Court of Chancery in August 1878.

Revenue for state, county and municipal purposes is derived principally from taxes on real estate, tangible personal property, incomes in excess of $1000, wills and administrations, deeds, seals, lawsuits, banks, trust and security companies, insurance companies, express companies, railway and canal corporations, sleeping-car, parlour-car and dining-car companies, telegraph and telephone companies, franchise taxes, poll taxes, an inheritance tax and taxes on various business and professional licences.

A 2011 Harris Interactive poll showed that nearly 13 million adults in the United States are willing to accept connection requests from people they don't know who are of the opposite gender.

A 2010 Pew Internet Research poll showed that 32 percent of teens have experienced some type of online harassment such as forwarding private information to others, posting an embarrassing photograph, spreading rumors, or making threats.

It was therefore decided that with the cardinals each nation should associate six delegates, and that the successful candidate should be required to poll two-thirds of the suffrages, not only in the Sacred College, but also in each of these five groups.

A further deed poll providing for the removal of a General in the contingency of "mental incapacity" or other "unfitness," and for the election of a successor, was executed by Booth in July 1904.

The revenue for schools in 1907-08 was $8,020,229, of which $2,761,651 was from the state tax, $2,080,159 from the local tax, $1,640,969 from the one dollar poll tax on males between the ages of twenty-one and sixty, $481,899 from a state occupation tax, $4 2 9,3 6 5 from county funds, and $105,806 from tuition fees.

Revenue is chiefly derived from hut and poll taxes, R customs, wharfage dues, game licences and land tax.

The constitution of 1875 abolished the one-fifth revenue provision, made the support of the schools, except that derived from the land grant of 1819, and poll taxes, depend upon the appropriation of the legislature, and established separate schools for whites and blacks.

The constitution prohibits special, local and retroactive legislation, legislation impairing the obligation of contracts, and legislation levying a poll tax for county or state purposes or a tax on state, municipal and public school bonds (amendment of 1905), and it limits the amount and specifies the character of public debts which the legislature may contract.

The discontent of the rural labourers and of the poorer class of craftsmen in the towns, caused by the economic distress that followed the Black Death and the enactment of the Statute of Labourers in 1351, was brought to a head by the imposition of a poll tax in 1379 and again in 1381, and at the end of May in the latter year riots broke out at Brentwood in Essex; on the 4th of June similar violence occurred at Dartford; and on the 6th a mob several thousands strong seized the castle of Rochester and marched up the Medway to Maidstone.

The land tax is supplemented by a poll tax on the male population from 18 to 60 years of age, with the exception of immigrants during the first five years of their residence, religious teachers, schoolmasters, government servants and those unable to obtain their own livelihood.

Simply on the strength of his parliamentary reputation Gladstone was nominated, without his consent, for Manchester, and was placed at the bottom of the poll; but, having been at the same time nominated at Newark, was again returned.

To secure election a candidate must at the first voting poll an absolute majority and a number of votes equal to one-fourth of the number of electors.

Some capital snatches of verse are scattered throughout his novels, the best being "Poll put her arms akimbo" in Snarleyyow, and the "Hunter and the Maid" in Poor Jack.

The chief sources of revenue are customs, mining royalties, railways, native revenue (poll tax and passes), posts and telegraphs, stamp and transfer duties, land revenue and taxes on trades and professions.

A separate deed poll, making the General sole trustee, was executed by Booth in regard to the property and funds of this branch of work.

Its character is distinctly democratic. The property qualification of state senators and the restriction of suffrage to those who have paid county or poll taxes are abolished; but suffrage is limited to male adults who can read the state constitution in English, and can write their names, unless physically disqualified, and who have registered.

No poll tax is levied for state purposes, but counties are authorized to levy such a tax for school purposes.

No man may vote in any election who has not by the 1st of February next preceding that election paid all poll taxes due from him to the state.

According to the constitution of 1901 the legislature is required to levy, in addition to the poll tax, an annual tax for education at the rate of 30 to 65 cents on the hundred dollars' worth of property, and practically every county in the state had made in 1906 an appropriation for its schools of a one mill tax on $loo.