He could be counted upon to vote for a Reciprocal Demurrage bill without first consulting the Southern Pacific's political agent, Jere Burke.
Wolfe was accordingly declared the caucus nominee, with the thirty Senators present, machine and anti-machine, obligated to vote for him on the floor of the Senate.
Under the pledge required of candidates for the Legislature in the measure before us (the Wright bill) a member of the Legislature might find himself compelled to vote for a candidate whom the voters of his district opposed.
But Mr. Feeley hastened to vote for reconsideration of the measure.
Routh, the old president of Magdalen, declined to vote for him on the well-established ground that Christ Church had no business to hold both seats.
Peel went up to vote for him (splitting for Inglis); Ashley went up to vote against him.
Sir John Hinde Cotton, who spoke with the courage and freedom of an old English baron, declared, he never knew a member of that house who acted on true whig principles, vote for a standing army in time of peace.
Before the meeting of the parliament, the ministry gave him to understand that they should be able to procure a vote for ten or twelve thousand, but they would not undertake for a greater number.
You may fight for them and vote for them, but after you have got them you will find that they will make no appreciable improvement in your condition.
I say you have no right to vote for a policy which may bring suffering upon other people, without taking the trouble to find out whether you are helping to make things better or worse.
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I wanted to explain to you that it is not because I fail to appreciate how kind you have been to me that I vote for him.
I understand that it is not an easy thing for you to tell me that it seems best to you not to vote for me," Mr. Strathmore said kindly.
He told me in so many words that he is to vote for Frontford.
Within the district all representatives, if there are more than one, are chosen on a general ticket, and the individual elector has a right to vote for a number of candidates equal to the number of seats to be filled.
Members so voting were all pledged to vote for no man who was not pledged to support their platform.
I proposed to divide the country into equal electoral districts, and give to every man who was not a criminal, a vote for members of Parliament.
At length a thought struck him, and he said, "Who is John Myers going to vote for?
Oh," said my friends, "he's going to vote for our man.
Meanwhile the Canvassing Board of South Carolina reported the returns to the court, showing on their face the election of the Hayes Electors, and of a Democratic Legislature which would count the vote for Governor.
Berger of the Right Wing: "A vote for Berger is a vote of pitying contempt for our Bolsheviki and Spartacan comrades.
A vote for Berger is a vote of scoffery against the St. Louis platform--a vote of apology for the platform, dissipation of its meaning, and disavowal of its essential spirit.
A vote for Berger is a vote for the International of German Majority Socialism.
A vote for Berger is a vote approving his repeated and uncalled-for condemnation of our class-war comrades of the I.
A vote for Berger is a vote forpetty bourgeois progressivism as the essence of Socialism; it is a vote against identification of the Socialist Party with the revolutionary mass aspirations.
James Thompson; but I refused to vote for him, not, however, from any thing I had ever heard either the said Palmer or Bunce say against him.
More than one man is asserted to have voted for:--'Him you know that me landlord wants me to vote for.
Well, then, I'll vote for Palmer, because it is more like Father Lawler than the others.
Every member of the caucus, however, was committed to vote for Revels.
On the other hand, both tickets being composed exclusively of Republicans, thousands of Democrats refused to vote for either, while some of them voted the Ames ticket.
I want you to vote for me if you will; but if not then vote for my opponent, for he is a fine man.
If he would do so, she would try to coax her brothers to vote for him.
As well might Hardin ask me to vote for him in the convention.
Hamilton stood out against this movement, and wrote a letter urging his friends not to vote for him.
Nearly forty Republican members refused to vote for it, and the test vote was seventy-nine to forty-nine in the House, and nineteen to thirteen in the Senate.
The matter was adjusted at Jefferson's table: a few Northern votes were obtained for a Southern capital, and two Virginia members agreed to vote for assumption.
On the final issue, however, seven of the Republican Senators refused to vote for conviction, and an acquittal followed.
Prominent in cordially welcoming those who had renounced their party allegiance to vote for Mr. Cleveland, he was the pledged advocate of civil service reform.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vote for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
