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Example sentences for "scrutin"

Lexicographically close words:
scrupling; scrupulosity; scrupulous; scrupulously; scrupulousness; scrutineers; scrutinies; scrutinise; scrutinised; scrutinises
  1. For the same reason, for fear of the same man, scrutin de liste is hurriedly replaced by scrutin d'arrondissement.

  2. If, on the other hand, scrutin de liste is adopted, the whole country will choose all the magistrates and they will belong to the majority.

  3. Then began the quarrel of which we have read so often in Associated Press telegrams,--the dispute concerning the scrutin de liste and the scrutin d'arrondissement.

  4. It brought in a bill changing the selection of parliamentary candidates from the scrutin de liste to the scrutin d'arrondissement.

  5. In our own country local interests are provided for by State legislatures, and in elections for Congress the scrutin d'arrondissement is adopted.

  6. The Left disapproved the scrutin d'arrondissement, which gave too much scope, it said, for local interests to have weight over political issues.

  7. He was defeated in the Chamber on a question of the scrutin de liste, and resigned.

  8. He was an ardent supporter of the single-member constituency, or scrutin d'arrondissement, as the French call it, in opposition to scrutin de liste.

  9. Footnote 10: The difference is similar to the difference between the French scrutin d'arrondissement and scrutin de liste.

  10. The present method of election, under which the individual elector votes within his arrondissement or district for one deputy only, is known as the scrutin d'arrondissement.

  11. The other involves both a return to the scrutin de liste and the adoption of a scheme of proportional representation.

  12. In the majority of districts but a single deputy is chosen, but in twenty-eight of the larger ones two or more are elected by scrutin de liste, with provision for the representation of minorities.

  13. Under the provisions of this measure deputies and the popularly elected senators continue to be chosen within the arrondissement by scrutin de liste.

  14. The system established was that of scrutin de liste.

  15. One of these calls simply for abandonment of the scrutin d'arrondissement and a return to the scrutin de liste.

  16. And hence a second programme of reform is that which calls not merely for the scrutin de liste, but also for proportional representation.

  17. Elections were to be by scrutin de liste and the elector was to be allowed to cast as many votes as there were places to be filled and to concentrate as many of these votes as he might choose upon a single candidate.

  18. Through the revival of scrutin de liste, with a large department or a group of small ones as the electoral area, and with the device of representation of minorities added, (p.

  19. There was the semblance of a reconciliation between him and Ferry, and his name was the rallying-cry of the Republic at the general election, which was conducted on the old system of scrutin d'arrondissement.

  20. His influence in the Chamber was such that in spite of the opposition of the prime minister he carried his electoral scheme of scrutin de liste, descending from the presidential chair to defend it.

  21. When his death had removed the fear of his using scrutin de liste as a plebiscitary organization, parliament sanctioned its trial.

  22. The government in alarm proposed the restoration of scrutin d'arrondissement as the electoral system for scrutin de liste.

  23. Freycinet and Carnot, afterwards president of the Republic, represented the moderate element in this ministry, which superintended the general elections under scrutin de liste.

  24. Gambetta being out of the way, his favourite electoral system of scrutin de liste had no longer any terror for his rivals, so it was voted by the Chamber early in 1885.

  25. The Senate was averse to the scrutin de liste and rejected, in the spring of 1881, the measure which Gambetta carried through the Chamber.

  26. In anticipation of this election Gambetta's long-desired scrutin de liste had been rather unexpectedly voted.

  27. Their suspicions were somewhat deepened by Gambetta's ardent advocacy of the scrutin de liste instead of the existing scrutin d'arrondissement.

  28. To Gambetta the scrutin de liste was the truly republican form of representation, the one existing under the National Assembly and abolished by the reactionaries under the new constitution.

  29. The panic-stricken Government was able to thwart his plebiscitary appeals by re-establishing the scrutin d'arrondissement, or election by small districts instead of by whole departments.

  30. The "Great Ministry" remained in office two months and a half and came to grief on the proposed revision of the constitution, in which Gambetta wished to incorporate the scrutin de liste.

  31. Under the stress of the Boulangist panic, these same Republicans suddenly threw the scrutin de liste over again in 1889, to readopt and reimpose upon their beloved country the 'intolerable' evils of the scrutin d'arrondissement!

  32. In 1889, under the fear of Boulanger, the scrutin de liste was suddenly abandoned for the scrutin d'arrondissement, and the same thing happened again.

  33. Castelin under the scrutin d'arrondissement in September, 1889.

  34. In 1885, under the scrutin de liste, the Aveyron was entitled to six deputies.

  35. In 1885, under the scrutin de liste, the votes given to M.

  36. In 1889 the elections were made by the scrutin d'arrondissement.

  37. In 1885 the Deputies were chosen by the scrutin de liste.

  38. Under the scrutin de liste the eleven seats for the Gironde would pretty plainly have gone in 1889 to the Monarchists.

  39. We hear of the relative advantage of scrutin d'arrondissement and scrutin de liste; that is, single electoral districts or large areas choosing a number of representatives apiece.

  40. Since 1871 the mode of election has oscillated between the scrutin de liste for the departments and the scrutin uninominal for the arrondissements.

  41. It included the re-establishment of scrutin de liste, a method of voting to which many Republicans were hostile, so this gave his enemies in his own party their opportunity.

  42. Gambetta told me that the Chamber would never forgive him for having suggested scrutin de liste, and hated him.

  43. Footnote: The Gambetta Ministry fell by a vote on Scrutin de Liste on January 26th.

  44. He was speaking of revision of the constitution for the purpose of the adoption of scrutin de liste.

  45. Writing to Grant Duff of this coming conflict, Dilke said: "Gambetta means to put scrutin de liste into the constitution at the revision--if he can.

  46. But our Swiss people are so accustomed to the scrutin de liste, or multiple vote, that we could not obtain from them the profound modification which would have been necessary to pass to the Hare-Spence system.

  47. The third type concerns the application of the second ballot to the scrutin de liste or block vote in multi-member constituencies.

  48. With the scrutin de liste (the former method of election) the minority in each constituency was completely crushed.

  49. Text of the Bill (1) Members of the Chamber of Deputies shall be elected on the list system (scrutin de liste) in accordance with the scheme of proportional representation hereinafter stated.

  50. In Australia it is called the block vote, in the United States the general ticket, on the Continent the scrutin de liste.

  51. For example, Stockholm used to be represented in the Lower Chamber by twenty-two members chosen by the "block" system, or scrutin de liste.

  52. Ferry and myself were the only ones who supported the scrutin d'arrondissement.

  53. This double game does not tell in Gambetta's favour; he has lost much during the last two months, and if the scrutin de liste is not passed, his influence will be greatly diminished.

  54. Like you, I deplore the scrutin de liste.

  55. People are speaking no more of the scrutin de liste than if the question did not exist.

  56. The Block Vote, General Ticket, or scrutin de liste, is in general use when there is more than one seat to be filled.

  57. The evil of the Block Vote or scrutin de liste is that it gives all the representation to the majority, and excludes the minority; its merit is that it prevents the formation of a number of minorities.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrutin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.