Even Michael Hoffman refused to vote against it, although he did not vote for it.
When, finally, the Constitution in its entirety was submitted to the convention for its approval, O'Conor was one of six to vote against it.
The men from New York who urged it are stark mad," he wrote; "more than fifty thousand electors are now balancing their votes, and half of them want an excuse to vote against you.
I will vote for this measure as one of conciliation and compromise; but if the clause of the senator from Kentucky is not inserted, I shall be compelled to vote against it.
If you cannot vote for the bill, vote against it just as it stands.
If you vote for Napoleon, all is well; vote against him, and you are to be instantly shot.
Being the first of the dissenting Republicans to vote, the influence of his action was feared by the impeachers, and most strenuous efforts had been made to induce him to retract the position he had taken to vote against conviction.
Last winter, in Boston, I could only give my vote against it, for no Sixteenth had been proposed.
As women were legal voters, to stay at home was to vote against bonds.
I am going to vote against it because the right of suffrage is that rugged and severe service which man has no right to devolve upon woman.
On Lord Duncan's motion about the Woods and Forests, he ostentatiously marched out first to vote against them; on the Naval Estimates he went away.
A vote against Grant, it was strongly contended, was virtually a vote against the Union.
He frankly stated that, since he was a Blaine man, he would be obliged to vote against me, but he told me that this was an opportunity that comes to a man but once in a lifetime.
I voted against it in my own State, and I intend to vote against it here.
Mr. Griswold regretted to vote against a measure proposed by those whom he believed to "have at heart the best interest of the whole country.
The Prince of Wales, whose intercession saved Lord Cromartie, says he did it in return for old Sir William Gordon, Lady Cromartie's father, coming down out of his deathbed to vote against my father in the Chippenham election.
He had come down to the house on the 12th of July, he said, with a firm determination to vote against them; but when he found by whom he was surrounded, he was unwilling to join them in driving ministers from office.
Could such conduct on the part of the noble duke bear comparison with the case of the government depriving the noble duke of these crown-lands on account of his giving a vote against them?
In opposition, therefore, to his theoretical opinion, he would resist the motion; and he believed that every cabinet minister would vote against it.
But if you elect me as a Director in this coming stockholders' meeting and this question comes before the Board, unless you can make me see it differently I'm likely to vote against you.
If you think I'm wrong you're welcome to vote against me; but believe me, this is no Sunday-school job.
Salisbury told me he stayed away to-night not liking to vote against us, on account of yesterday's declaration of war.
They had intended to stay away on the question of Reform--now they mean to vote against it.
But it is generally conceded that when the session opened, the gamblers had nineteen Senators who could have been prevailed upon to vote against an effective anti-gambling bill.
In addition, an even dozen Republican Senators and Assemblymen were counted upon as willing to vote against Perkins if his defeat could be shown to be certain.
He knew that his skin was not thick enough to bear the arrows of those archers who would bend their bows against him if he should now dare to vote against Mr. Monk's motion.
In the open House we are almost as much beaten by a narrow majority as by a vote against us.
If you can do this it will be only necessary that you shall put your resignation in Lord Cantrip's hands before you speak or vote against us.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vote against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
