In the House it was held in the committee and although three test votes were made in an effort to bring it out and a majority was obtained on one of them, a two-thirds vote was necessary and it was not allowed to come to a vote.
In 1898 in Asotin, as throughout the country, populism was on the ebb tide, that is, so far as votes were concerned.
Votes were taken in the assemblages of the estates by orders, not by individuals, and the function of the bodies rarely extended beyond the approving of projects of taxation.
Votes were to be cast, as a rule, by ballot, though under some circumstances orally.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "votes were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
