Polls Sentence Examples

This instrument was ratified at the polls on the 13th of August.

At the polls on the 8th of November Lincoln was triumphantly re-elected president.

These two parties decidedly outnumbered the Republicans at the polls from 1890-1898, but they could win only by fusion.

It was the great question at the polls; and the first elections by the new constituencies went violently against the authors of their being.

But meanwhile, a convention of delegates chosen mainly at polls opened at the army posts, assembled in January 1864, abolished slavery, repudiated secession and the secession war debt, and revised in minor details the constitution of 1836, restricting the suffrage to whites.

In October this was ratified at the polls.

A general election must take place every five years, and all polls must be taken on the same day.

The polls were remarkable for the defeat of three ministers - General Botha (by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick) at Pretoria East, Mr Hull (by Sir George Farrar) on the Rand, and Mr Moor in Natal.

The release of the Denshawai prisoners in January 1908 and the death of Mustafa Kamel in the following month had a quieting effect on the public mind; while the fact that in the elections (December 1907) for the legislative council and the general assembly only 5% of the electors went to the polls, afforded a striking commentary alike on the appreciation of the average Egyptian of the value of parliamentafy institutions and of the claims of the Nationalist members of the assembly to represent the Egyptian people.

When this question was so submitted for the first time, in 1866, the vote was to revise; but the revision prepared by a convention called for the purpose was rejected at the polls The revision by the Constitutional Convention of1907-1908was adopted by popular vote in 1908.

Until 1902 the legislature was the sole law-making body in the state, but on the 2nd of June of this year the voters adopted a constitutional amendment which declared that "the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution, and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly, and also reserve power at their own option to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative assembly."

This time Venizelos, as a protest against the King's unconstitutional proceedings, called upon his party to abstain from the polls; and as a result, only 230,000 votes were cast, as against 720,000 in the previous election.

It was plain indeed that the fiscal question itself was ripe for the polls; Board of Trade statistics had been issued in profusion, and the whole case was before the country.

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.

At the polls, all votes are given orally, a system which facilitates corruption; the officials who control the elections depend for their livelihood on the ban, usually a Magyarist; and thus, even apart from the privileged members, a majority favourable to Hungary can usually be secured.

The result is exactly in line with the pre-election polls.

We proved the opinion polls wrong by a factor of 50% .

The result shows some slippage for the president since September, when other polls asked a similar question.

The argument that the polls show a likely democratic takeover is somewhat undermined by these factors.

The second stage, an open primary for all eligible voters, was replaced by opinion polls.

At the Pressburg diet in 1840 Dessewffy was already the leading orator of the more enlightened and progressive Conservatives, but incurred great unpopularity for not going far enough, with the result that he was twice defeated at the polls.

In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index.

The FP (Virtue Party) despite making a poorer than expected showing in the polls, does have a female deputy.

This was submitted to the people and adopted at the polls.

The city government had been characterized by extravagance and maladministration, and a revolt of the independent voters at the polls overcame the usual Republican majority and Cleveland was elected.

In addition to the ordinary general property tax, licences and polls, there are a tax on corporations and an income tax.

The party is behind in the opinion polls and suffering from self-inflicted damage.

Only registered users can vote in polls so as to prevent spoofing of results.

The argument that the polls show a likely Democratic takeover is somewhat undermined by these factors.

Egyptian judges monitoring the polls have also complained of voter intimidation and interference by security forces in the earlier rounds of elections.

On OKC you can take a variety of quizzes and polls that help you to find the person you are most compatible with.

The site features a number of polls and quizzes that you can use to refine your search for the perfect mate -- you can tag any question you answer on the site as important or even essential for your mate to agree with you on.

Create a community feel within your albums with comments, votes and polls.

Teen Ink is a magazine written completely by and for teens, and not only do they offer articles, contests, polls, fiction and more, they welcome and encourage submissions from teens.

Talks of a breast reduction have been heard in the rumor mill, with The Sun newspaper running polls that showed thousands of fans opposed the surgery.

Now that Oprah Winfrey has joined the Obama camp, it is likely that things will change in people's minds and in the polls.

According to the latest presidential polls, Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama by a margin of 9% in the race for the Democratic presidential candidate.

As you get down to the state specific polls, that margin becomes smaller.

In addition, though not detailed reviews, reader's polls can be just as helpful, telling you what a majority think.

Members can post additional pictures, construct polls to prompt discussion and generally talk about anything they like, within respectable guidelines.

Polls are included which can give you a benchmark against which to compare your experiences.

Every year the National Sleep Foundation conducts polls focused on different themes regarding sleep.

The console offers Wii channels you can use for photos, messaging, surfing the web, weather, news and voting on polls.

Twilight Guide is a fascinating new fan website that offers a fan forum, polls and quizzes, contests and lots of other content that fans of the Twilight series will love.

Major stories and cast changes are available along with interactive polls.

Polls are a regular feature on the site whether addressing storyline changes, cast changes or love story challenges.

The site tackles the latest news, spoilers and cast changes through updated articles, message boards and polls.

Soaps.com Y&R Site - Soaps.com is a fan favorite resource for spoilers, up to the minute news, polls and more.

SoapZone offers other features including communities for other soap operas, the voting booth where registered members can create and vote in polls.

There is also an active soap opera message board and viewer polls.

Chat with fellow fans about your favorite characters, the current storylines, special memories, program news and answer a few polls while you're at it!

This popular interactive feature allows you to cast your ballot in polls posted by All My Children fans.

You can go through flipbooks or enjoy voting for your favorite tattoos on polls.

Finally, you can visit the polls and vote for your favorite tattoo completed by a Miami Ink tattoo artist.

Immediately following President Clinton's speech, public polls emboldened health care reform proponents.

Most polls reflected overwhelming support across the country for the Clinton administration's health care plan.

If they see one of their favorites is low on the polls, they can send votes their way, rather than voting for another one of their favorites who appears to be easily getting enough votes to stay in the competition.

Here you will find extensive coverage on all things reality, including fun viewer polls and links to other fan sites.

According to polls by film sites such as Fandango, the audience for Twilight the movie was about 75 percent female, and 25 percent of the audience was under 25 years old.

Facebook101 not only offers very cool layouts, but also a huge assortment of other great Facebook add-ons and tools like trackers, polls and even proxies.

You can sign up for the site and take quizzes, polls, find prayers, start a blog or start your own gallery.

Adding interactive elements like lists, polls, and surveys will keep readers on your site longer and encourage them to share your post with others.

Many users are also not aware that by using applications or taking polls on Facebook, they are granting third party access to their profiles.

Upon this measure, however, the people ordered a referendum and it was rejected at the polls.

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The preliminaries of the elections of December 1905 and March 1906 being marked by frauds and injustice, the Liberals deserted the polls at those elections, and instead of appealing to judicial tribunals controlled by the Moderates, issued a manifesto of revolution on the 28th of July 1906.1 This insurrection rapidly assumed large proportions.

No platform was adopted, the widespread popularity of Jackson being relied upon to win success at the polls.

In 1847 and again in 1848 the Democrats nominated him for governor of Massachusetts, but on each occasion he was defeated at the polls.

The town hall is not large enough for an assemblage of all the voters, but actually the attendance is usually limited to about Zoo, and since 1901 there has been in force a kind of referendum, under which any measure passed by a town-meeting attended by 700 or more voters may be referred, upon petition of loo legal voters, to a regular vote at the polls.

At the election in November 1887 the question of the division of the Territory into two states at the " seventh standard parallel " was submitted to the people, and was carried at the polls.

Various other amendments have been proposed from time to time, but have been defeated at the polls.

The income of the state, counties and towns is derived mainly from taxes levied on real estate, on male polls between the ages of twenty-one and seventy, on stock in public funds, on stock in corporations that pay a dividend and are not subject to some special form of tax, on surplus capital in banks, on stock in trade, on live-stock, on railways, on telegraph and telephone lines, on savings banks and on the stock of fire insurance companies.

Comparing the old constitutions with the new ones, it may be said that the note of those enacted in the first thirty or forty years of the republic was their jealousy of executive power and their careful safeguarding of the rights of the citizen; that of the second period, from 1820 to the Civil War (186165), the democratization of the suffrage and of institutions generally; that of the third period (since the war to the present day), a disposition to limit the powers and check the action of the legislature, and to commit power to the hands of the whole people voting at the polls.

The whites of Alabama therefore stayed away from the polls, and, after five days of voting, the constitution wanted 13,550 to secure a majority.

These rolls are open to public inspection, and the names may be challenged at the polls, and " colonization " or repeating is therefore almost impossible.

In order to emerge victorious in such a struggle the Liberal party had need of all their strength, but a split took place between the sections known as the doctrinaires and the progressists, on the question of an extension of the franchise, and at the election of 1884 the Catholics carried all before them at the polls.

On the same day the premier promised to introduce by February a large measure of franchise reform so framed as to protect racial minorities from being overwhelmed at the polls by majorities of other races.

Rumanians These allotments were slightly modified at the polls by the victory of some Social Democratic candidates not susceptible of strict racial classification.

In the general election of June 1836 the Tory party Won a complete victory, Mackenzie and almost all the prominent Reformers being defeated at the polls.

He was defeated at the polls by a Boulangist candidate in 1889, and sat in the senate from 1891 to 1893, when he returned to the popular chamber.

The Democrats were successful at the polls, and President Polk in his inaugural address asserted the claim of the United States to all of Oregon in terms suggesting the possibility of war.

Soon after the Civil War a Democratic " machine " got firm control of the city, and although a struggle to overthrow the machine was begun in earnest in 1875 by a coalition of the reform element of the Democratic party with the Republican party, it was not till 1895 that the coalition won its first decisive victory at the polls.

Though the new government obtained some increased strength from the result of the polls, the country, it was evident, had no intention of abandoning the policy of free trade, which by this time, it was clear, had conferred substantial benefits on all classes.

The general election of March 1921 followed, and gave the new party a decisive victory at the polls and a clear and substantial majority in the Parliament of the Union.

Finally, a complete rupture took place in 1904 between the Prince and Venizelos; the Venizelist party were defeated at the polls by the personal canvassing of the Prince and the united efforts of the other Cretan party leaders, already jealous of Venizelos' rising star.

For a century politics in Spain had been a game, played by professionals, between the ins and outs; victory or defeat at the polls depended less on any intelligent popular judgment on the questions at issue than on the passing interests of the wire-pullers and bosses (Caciques) who worked the electoral machinery.

He was a member of the Essex County convention of 1778, called to protest against the proposed state constitution, and as a member of the "Essex Junto" was probably the author of The Essex Result, which helped to secure the rejection of the constitution at the polls.

After the war the Republicans were more frequently successful at the polls than the Democrats.

Real estate is assessed biennially; personal property, privileges and polls annually.

These were early astir and flocked to the polls in great glee, determined to exercise of their newly acquired rights.

Yet have such composure some liberals say european polls the whole area.

There were debates with people who were deeply disillusioned with New Labor who want to see it punished at the polls.

Opinion polls over many years have shown a persistent public distaste for giving up the pound in favor of the euro.

Aside from the exit polls having been proven to be faulty, in the 2000 election exit polls were wrong in 8 states.

Later on, I hustled about gettin ' out voters who had jags on or who were too lazy to come to the polls.

The polls show them still languishing far behind Labor.

It contains stories that have won readers polls, that have won foreign prizes, and a few that are just out-and-out hilarious.

Results of opinion polls on the constitution vary, depending on the precise phrasing of the question.

The elections held under the new system proved a failure, the Christians refusing to go to the polls, and for the next five years Crete was governed absolutely by a succession of Mahommedan Valis.

The overwhelming victory of the government in June at the polls, produced a lull in a crisis which at the beginning of the year had threatened the stability of the Dual Monarchy and the peace of Europe; but, in view of the methods by which the victory had been won, not the most sanguine could assert that the crisis was overpassed.

He was defeated at the polls in 1902, but became director of the Assistance Publique.

This was ratified at the polls on the 1st of October, together with a separate prohibition clause, which was ' Part of this tract was situated in North Dakota.

The rejection of this budget in December by the House of Lords led to d desperate struggle at the polls in January 1910, but the confident hopes of the Unionists were doomed to disappointment.

It was at first rejected at the polls, but was finally ratified in November 1869 without the disfranchising clauses.

The Unionists went to the polls with divided counsels, and sustained a crushing defeat, remarkable nevertheless for the comparative success of the tariff reformers.

After a fierce electoral fight the Takkians were victors at the first polls, but were beaten at the second ballots.

In Alsace-Lorraine about half of those entitled to vote appear at the polls; but in other districts of Germany very little interest is shown in the elections to the parish councils.

At election times they also direct and superintend the work of bringing up voters to the polls and of watching the taking and counting of the votes; but in this work they are often aided or superseded by specially appointed temporary bodies called campaign committees, These party committees are permanent, and though the membership is renewed every year, the same men usually continue to serve.

Under the short-lived Second Republic (1848-52) the position of the Church grew even stronger, for the introduction of universal suffrage brought to the polls great masses of new voters strongly clerical in sympathies.