English vocabulary examples in context: ballot
Vocabulary in context: ballot -- Example 1.
The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned.
Vocabulary in context: ballot -- Example 2.
You are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot.
Vocabulary in context: ballot -- Example 3.
In the Seleznevsky district Sviazhsky was elected unanimously without a ballot, and he gave a dinner that evening.
Vocabulary in context: ballot -- Example 4.
If, as at previous elections, all the districts asked the marshal of the province to stand, then he would be elected without a ballot.
Vocabulary in context: ballot -- Example 5.
But if only one district, Sviazhsky's, did not call upon him to stand, Snetkov would let himself be balloted for.
Vocabulary in context: ballot -- Example 6.
The act said that in case of difference of opinion, there must be a ballot.
Vocabulary in context: ballot -- Example 7.
There were one thousand five hundred Patricians; from these, three hundred Senators were chosen; from the Senators a Doge and a Council of Ten were selected, and by secret ballot the Ten chose from their own number a Council of Three.
Vocabulary in context: ballot -- Example 8.
Six of them haven't got quite back-bone enough to slew around and come right out for you on the first ballot tomorrow; but they're going to vote against you on the first for the sake of appearances, and then come out for you all in a body on the second--I've fixed all that!
Vocabulary in context: ballot -- Example 9.
The combat was still smoking when the army was brought to the ballot-box.
