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Sentences starting with votes

Votes upon motions, whether carried or defeated, could make endless delay, and postpone the Ausgleich to next century. [5]
Votes based upon capital were commonly called "mortal" votes, because they could be lost; those based upon learning were called "immortal," because they were permanent, and because of their customarily imperishable character they were naturally more valued than the other sort. [5]

Sentences ending with votes

The price per vote was paid in doughnuts, and it depended somewhat on the appetites of the individuals as to the price of the votes. [5]
But allow me to suggest that you should avoid speaking of this; for it probably would induce some of your friends in like manner to cast their votes. [7]
And add up the sum total of the votes! [9]
He forgets that the "people," as he complacently calls only those who voted for Buchanan, are in a minority of the whole people by about four hundred thousand votes--one full tenth of all the votes. [7]
Noble further said that there were fifty members present with money in their pockets, placed there by Dilworthy to buy their votes. [5]
First, as I said, they will try a lot of members for taking money for votes. [5]
Are not these newspapers a fair index of the proportion of the votes? [7]
We should do neither more nor less than we gave the people reason to believe we would when they gave us their votes. [7]
Such a course might have prevented the expressions of regret, which have often been heard since, from different individuals, on account of the disposition they made of their votes. [7]
I heard shrewd mammas speak of certain young men as good "catches" because they possessed such-and-such a number of votes. [5]

Short sentences using votes

Hunt your votes? [9]

Sentences containing votes two or more times

In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
In Madison, alone, if our friends get 1000 of the Fillmore votes, and their opponents the remainder, 658, we win by just two votes. [7]
On the first ballot Lincoln received the votes of the delegations from all the States except Missouri; and even the Missourians turned over their votes to him before the result of the ballot was declared. [7]

More example sentences with the word votes in them

Hasn't it struck you, Fersen, that unless a man has a voice and an interest in the industry in which he works his voice, and interest in the government for which he votes is a mockery? [9]
If you are, you will probably soon find that we have ceased to be sectional, for we shall get votes in your section this very year. [7]
Lob' Gott, of you had lif'd in Paris you would be a Pree de Rome, dot's votes de matter! [5]
Missouri would not yield the point; and Congress that is, a majority in Congress--by repeated votes showed a determination not to admit the State unless it should yield. [7]
Here's Adam Hunt with both feet in the trough, and no more chance of the nomination than I have, and Bascom and Botcher teasing him on, and he's got enough votes with Crewe to lock up that convention for a dark horse. [9]
I do not wish to question unduly the intellects of those members of this House who by their votes will prove that they have been convinced by the gentleman's argument. [9]
For at last we have chosen a man who is strong enough, --who does not fear your fire-eaters,--whose electors depend on Northern votes alone. [9]
The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making, and not of ours. [7]
The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making and not of ours. [7]
He knows that we advocate no such doctrines as these, but he cares not how much he misrepresents us if he can gain a few votes by so doing. [7]
When Abraham Lincoln was running for the Legislature the first time, on the platform of the improvement of the navigation of the Sangamon River, he went to secure the votes of thirty men who were cradling a wheat field. [4]
The world is very complacent, and apparently worships success and votes for smartness, but it would surprise some of our most successful men to know what a real respect there is in the community, after all, for downright integrity. [4]
Our adversaries have us now clearly at disadvantage on the second Wednesday of February, when the votes should be officially counted. [7]
As I always understood, the Liberty men deprecated the annexation of Texas extremely; and this being so, why they should refuse to cast their votes [so] as to prevent it, even to me seemed wonderful. [7]
It is an unanswerable argument to this effect that no candidate for any office whatever, high or low, has ventured to seek votes on the avowal that he was for giving up the Union. [7]
Well, we have tried a President four years, criticised him and found fault with him the whole time, and turned around a day or two ago with votes enough to spare to elect another. [5]
No use trying to hold your breath until the first ballot is announced; it takes time to obtain the votes of one thousand men--especially when neither General Doby nor any one else knows who they are! [9]
Result--eleven over a thousand votes, and some nine hundred men in the hall! [9]
In the meantime there was the public: to permit the other fellow to capture that was to be lacking in ordinary prudence; if its votes counted for nothing, its savings were desirable; and it was fast getting into a state of outrage against monopoly. [9]
If it does, then in case we should, without change of principle, begin to get votes in your section, we should thereby cease to be sectional. [7]
It is said the noses have been counted and enough votes have been bought to pass it. [5]
I only add that I shall be gratified exceedingly if the good people of the State shall, by their votes, ratify the new constitution. [7]
Thirty-one votes more than there are credentials in the hall! [9]
Why, it is telegraphed all over the country and commented on as something wonderful if a congressman votes honestly and unselfishly and refuses to take advantage of his position to steal from the government. [5]
Many votes were taken, by yeas and nays, in both branches of Congress, upon the various phases of the general question. [7]
Again, if we take the Whig votes of the counties as shown by the late Presidential election as a basis, the thing is still worse. [7]
He buys and sells votes and credentials like cattle. [9]
If questions should remain, we would adjust them by the peaceful means of legislation, conference, courts, and votes, operating only in Constitutional and lawful channels. [7]
Why, that our party has no existence in your section--gets no votes in your section. [7]
Can we cast our votes with their view, and against our own? [7]
While the counting of the votes was going on there was the most intense excitement. [6]
The Judiciary Committee of the august body did indeed condescend to give hearings, at which the Ribblevale lawyers exhausted their energy and ingenuity without result with only two dissenting votes the bill was calmly passed. [9]
Of the votes of that one hundred and twenty, Judge Douglas's friends furnished twenty, to add to which there were six Americans and ninety-four Republicans. [7]
Take the case of a clergyman of stainless private morals who votes for a thief for public office, on his own party's ticket, and against an honest man on the other ticket. [5]
This vote has nothing to do in determining my votes on the questions of supplies. [7]
He might get New York, and that would have elected in 1844, but it will not now, because he must now, at the least, lose Tennessee, which he had then, and in addition the fifteen new votes of Florida, Texas, Iowa, and Wisconsin. [7]
Whereas formerly a man was honored only according to the amount of money he possessed, his grandeur was measured now by the number of votes he wielded. [5]
What even the loss of part of a cherished crop, if the nation's existence were at stake and their votes might save it! [9]
We soon shall know how many delegates they elected, how many candidates they had pledged to a free State, and how many votes were cast for them. [7]
The English population is very slender; it has not votes enough to elect a legislator. [5]
Nine immortal votes is the only power we uncover for that is, in civil life. [5]
It was passed in violence because it could not have passed at all but for the votes of many members in violence of the known will of their constituents. [7]
I thank you in common with all those who have thought fit by their votes to indorse the Republican cause. [7]
The three votes improperly made out are said to be trip passes accidentally dropped into the box by the supporters of the Honourable Elisha Jane. [9]
Let him have Illinois, and nothing can beat him; and he will get Illinois if men persist in throwing away votes upon Mr. Fillmore. [7]
It is true, I know, that that clause was stricken from the bill, but it was done by the votes of the Whigs, aided by a portion only of the Van Buren senators. [7]
He received five hundred votes against seven hundred for Disraeli, who was elected. [6]
Gaze upon him--ponder him well--and then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open his mouth in denial of any one of them! [5]
Every State which has fallen off from the Whig cause since 1840 has done so not by giving more Democratic votes than they did then, but by giving fewer Whig. [7]
I say "customarily" for the reason that these votes were not absolutely imperishable, since insanity could suspend them. [5]
In this struggle for the nation's life, I cannot so confidently rely on those whose elections may have depended upon disloyal votes. [7]
You've been asking for our votes. [11]
With few individual exceptions, you have constantly had our votes here for all the necessary supplies. [7]
It shows that even among the candidates of the same party, he who is most devoted to the Union and most opposed to treason can receive most of the people's votes. [7]
Such men, when elected, may prove true; but such votes are given them in the expectation that they will prove false. [7]
Bouck, who was elected Democratic Governor of New York last fall by more than 15,000 majority, had not then as many votes as he had in 1840, when he was beaten by seven or eight thousand. [7]
Upon this understanding, each got votes which it could have got in no other way. [7]
But the constitution did not say that certain individuals might not be given two votes, or ten! [5]
Who, seeing the Democratic candidate smiling and bowing to the audience that blocked the wide square, would guess that the Question troubled him at all, or that he missed the votes of the solid South? [9]
This was Johnson County, Tennessee, a strong Republican county but dog-gone it, says Mr. Egger, it's no use to vote; our votes are overborne by the rest of the State. [4]
In the great contest of 1840 some more than twenty one hundred thousand votes were cast, and so surely as there shall be that many, with the ordinary increase added, cast in 1844 that surely will a Whig be elected President of the United States. [7]
It was also common to hear youths planning a future of ever so many votes for themselves. [5]
It is not claimed that the election has imposed a duty on members to change their views or their votes any further than, as an additional element to be considered, their judgment may be affected by it. [7]
He and they, by their voices and votes, denied that it was a fair emanation of the people. [7]
Not only so, but if you were to do so, how long would it take the courts to hold your votes unconstitutional and void? [7]
Now, to come back to this shoe strike,--if, as the senator from Illinois asserts, this is caused by withdrawal of Southern votes, consider briefly how you will meet the difficulty. [7]
If he is, ask him to discard feeling, and try if he can possibly, as a matter of judgment, count the votes necessary to elect him. [7]
I think you are a little mistaken about it's ever having cost anything for Congressional votes. [5]
And then, besides, any town that has a good many votes and wants a fine station, gets it. [5]
Whether, since then, any Buchanan, or Fremonters, have shifted ground, and how the majority of new votes will go, you can judge better than I. [7]
But there is a task yet before us--to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly began yesterday. [7]
Twenty-five years later, a more stringent law was proposed and defeated; and thirty-five years after that, the present law, drafted by Mason of Virginia, was passed by Northern votes. [7]
He would swing a hundred and fifty votes if our system were perfect. [5]

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