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Example sentences for "casting vote"

  • One is, that to secure at all times the possibility of a definite resolution of the body, it is necessary that the President should have only a casting vote.

  • The President, who is the head of the executive department, is the presiding member also of the Senate; and, besides an equal vote in all cases, has a casting vote in case of a tie.

  • The Chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to his own.

  • Each Member shall have one vote, and the Chairman shall have a casting vote.

  • The Board of Governors, which met quarterly in March, June, September and December, and which was in supreme control; two constituted a quorum and the Principal had a double or casting vote.

  • The former had a double or casting vote in case of dispute.

  • Nor does there seem to be any difference between a casting vote on an interlocutory question and a casting vote on the final question.

  • And he adds: “There is no casting vote in the Lords.

  • That the delegates should manage the business at present, and that in future a president should be chosen at each meeting of delegates who shall have a casting vote.

  • Each meeting shall nominate its own chairman, who shall have no casting vote.

  • He should only have a casting vote, and be paid 21s.

  • The governor claims, and has frequently exercised, the right of nomination, and is entitled to a casting vote in the appointment.

  • Jay intended that the governor should nominate and the Council confirm, and in the event of a tie the governor should have the casting vote.

  • In the Lords the committees on opposed bills consist of five members and the chairman has no casting vote.

  • In the Commons he has both an ordinary and a casting vote, S.

  • Moreover, he has no casting vote, and it is characteristic of his position that the peers do not address him, but speak to "My Lords.


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