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Example sentences for "voted"

Lexicographically close words:
vota; votaress; votaries; votary; vote; voteless; voter; voters; votes; voti
  1. The Empire heaped favours upon him, but in 1814 he abandoned Napoleon, and voted for his deposition.

  2. Petitions in favour of it, bearing an enormous number of signatures, were presented to the Chamber, and the overwhelming majority of the Conseils Généraux of which the Deputies generally formed part voted for revision.

  3. The Argentine Parliament has voted a law authorising the Government to give a subsidy of L400 monthly to any company adopting the refrigerator system and undertaking to make the voyage to Lisbon or Vigo in fifteen days.

  4. The laws voted were impotent to prevent the disposal of these public lands in large parcels, so that the disposal of these lands failed to draw the population which these vast domains could support.

  5. Various laws have been voted in the Argentine, tending to augment the population by means of colonisation.

  6. Therefore, I have held a meeting and voted to offer you the distinction of membership.

  7. I fancied that I beheld myself when I was little, and so I voted for him.

  8. I should certainly have voted for myself, had I not been among the judges," said the mule.

  9. To the former, in addition, they voted a gold medal, in commemoration of the proud achievement.

  10. Meanwhile, some who had voted for the declaration, had left congress, and others had taken their places.

  11. His election to the imperial dignity was proposed and discussed in his presence, and was voted for by a few more than one-half the whole body of delegates.

  12. The House of Commons voted the departed patriot, who had thus died gloriously at his post, a public funeral, and a monument in Westminster abbey at the national expense.

  13. At a town-meeting, held in October, it was voted that measures should be immediately taken to promote the establishment of domestic manufactories, by encouraging the consumption of all articles of American manufacture.

  14. The delegates from the former, then present, were seven, and four voted against it.

  15. On the first ballot, eight states voted for Mr. Jefferson, six states for Mr. Burr, and the votes of two states were divided.

  16. For these reasons it was voted to omit Soamin from New and Nonofficial Remedies.

  17. In view of this and because the legitimate interests of the manufacturer may be safeguarded by appending his name or initials to the common name, benzocaine or anesthesin, the Council voted not to recognize the designation “Parathesin.

  18. The Council therefore declared Digitalysatum ineligible for New and Nonofficial Remedies and voted that this report be published.

  19. The Council voted that in view of the Hygienic Laboratory’s finding that formaldehyd has a low germicidal value, the manufacturers of Formosol be required to produce definite evidence of the degree of germicidal value for this product.

  20. In view of the extravagant and cruelly misleading therapeutic claims, and the indefinite statements of composition, the Council voted Cuprase ineligible to N.

  21. The Council voted that Stearns’ Wine be held ineligible for inclusion in N.

  22. The name being in conflict with Rule 8, the Council voted to omit Syrup Cephaelin-Lilly and not to accept Syrup Emetic-Lilly.

  23. In 1918 the Council voted to omit Stypticin because the former American agents were no longer offering it for sale.

  24. In 1916, the Council voted to omit Maltzyme with Hypophosphites, and Maltzyme with Phosphate of Iron, Quinine and Strychnine.

  25. The Chief's partizans were on the bench, and they out-voted him, and referred the matter to the Crown officer.

  26. He only discovered it some months afterwards, when he heard that both Stewart and Campbell had voted at the election of March, 1841, the first election under the "Union Act.

  27. The Prussian army was virtually an army of mercenaries, kept in the field by the large subsidies so generously voted by the English Parliament.

  28. On the first ballot, fourteen candidates were voted for, but Mr. Bland and Mr. Bryan were clearly in the lead.

  29. The Democrats in the House denounced the measure, and most of them voted against it because, they alleged, it did not go far enough.

  30. As a matter of fact, Conkling, who was a member of the committee that drafted the Fourteenth Amendment, voted against these provisions in Committee.

  31. For this proposition the eastern states voted almost solidly, with some help from the western states.

  32. Then followed his Winona speech, in which he declared the Payne-Aldrich bill to be the best tariff ever enacted, and in effect challenged the Progressives in Congress who had voted against the measure.

  33. Cities, townships, counties, and states voted bonds to help build railways within their limits or granted rights of way and lands, in addition, with a lavish hand.

  34. The Senator is not aware of one fact, … that every colored member of the Legislature of my State, even though some of them had made voluntary pledges to me, voted against my election to this body.

  35. Democrats opposed to the Civil Rights Bill voted against Amnesty with this association.

  36. The Club took a more hopeful view of the case, and it was voted that our Club should resolve itself into the trustees and faculty of a Post Graduate School for Academic Donors.

  37. The Mormons had at every election voted in a body with their leaders; this alone made them formidable.

  38. They all knew that the Conservatives would have voted just the same without a word being spoken.

  39. Mr. Pigott, the rector of his own parish, had voted against him at the poll in his own county some time after that reverend gentleman's death.

  40. However, on the faith of the surplus thus created by Lord Cranbrook and Mr. Stanhope, Parliament voted that the expenses of the Afghan war should be charged upon India.

  41. Whenever a legislative reform was proposed, he invariably spoke against it, and at some stage afterwards the Conservatives voted in a body the same way.

  42. Warrington voted that Pen should wear a barrister's wig.

  43. At 2 o'clock the teams met in classroom A and Betty's name was put up for substitute, and as Louise had prophesied, every one voted yes.

  44. A class meeting was called and everybody voted it a dandy plan.

  45. And this may especially be expected if the doctrine of "care not whether slavery be voted down or voted up" shall gain upon the public mind sufficiently to give promise that such a decision can be maintained when made.

  46. Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people, voted down?

  47. Finally, on February 9th, of the one hundred fifty-four Deputies present, all but five voted for the downfall of the temporal power of the Pope, all but eleven for the proclamation of the republic.

  48. An immense and overwhelming majority always voted against them in the House of Commons.

  49. The Councils met on the 18th and 20th, but not a word was said of the murder, and even a proposition for giving assurance to the Pope "of the devotion and unalterable affection of the Deputies" was voted down.

  50. Not we," said the friends of the measure; and down they voted the amendment.

  51. They wish us to infer all, from the fact that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the dynasty, and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point, upon which he and we have never differed.

  52. And, on the contrary, he cannot be voted out of office.

  53. But Van Buren was ready, and at once stepped to his chair and voted for the bill.

  54. So, also, the next day, when Jackson voted for federal subscriptions to help construct the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal and the Dismal Swamp Canal, Van Buren was against him.

  55. A declaration against the extension of slavery was voted down.

  56. In 1860 Van Buren voted for the union electoral ticket which represented in New York the combined opposition to Lincoln.

  57. White, the Southern Democratic candidate so seriously menacing him, was in the Senate, and voted for the bill.

  58. Two days before the session closed he voted against the bill for the occupation of Oregon, Benton and Jackson voting in the affirmative.

  59. In January, 1823, during his second session, Van Buren spoke and voted in favor of the bill to repair the road, but still took no decided ground upon the general question.

  60. Van Buren's friends saved the State; but in doing so voted for annexation.

  61. Only eight members of the convention voted against the Constitution; only fifteen others did not sign it.

  62. Another fugitive-slave law was demanded by the South, and the Northern members voted them the right to hunt slaves upon free soil.

  63. A sub-committee, to whom the petition had been referred, reported in favor of granting the prayer, but it was voted down at the next town meeting.

  64. Chalmers for Congress, and voted for him at the recent election in Mississippi.

  65. In Florida, they were declared appointed at three o'clock in the morning, and they voted at twelve, just nine hours afterward.

  66. The responsibility of the final decision lay, after all, upon Congress, or rather, upon the Senate, which voted throughout to follow the Commission.

  67. They say if they allowed a negative vote the constitution would have been voted down by an overwhelming majority, and hence the fellows shall not be allowed to vote at all.

  68. The partisan press did not spare him, though he stated publicly that he would have voted for the bill, had he not been forced to absent himself.

  69. For his part, Cass made haste to say, he wished the Senate distinctly to understand that when he had voted for the treaty, he believed Great Britain was thereby prevented from establishing any such dependency.

  70. Abraham Lincoln was one of those who voted for the bill.

  71. The Southern delegates voted in caucus to hold to the Davis resolutions; the Northern, with equal stubbornness, clung to the well-known principles of Douglas.

  72. And so, after two days of debate, Douglas again had his way: the Senate voted to recede from the Clayton amendment.

  73. I care not whether it is voted up or down.

  74. Footnote 319: All these fifteen voted for the Democratic candidate for Speaker of the House.

  75. Presumably Douglas was not opposed to this amendment,[221] though he voted against the famous Wilmot Proviso two days later.

  76. On the tenth day of the convention, it was voted to adjourn to meet at Baltimore, on the 18th of June.

  77. Saint Albans was simultaneously and unanimously voted leader, though we had many older than he, for he was but eighteen.

  78. As well may the sun be voted as excessively vulgar, because it, like intellect, assists all equally to perform their functions.

  79. Lord Grey was one of the few statesmen who were blameless in the matter, for he voted against the Act of 1843, in opposition to his party.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    voted against; voted down; voted upon