13 sentences with 'vote'
Example sentences and phrases with the word vote and other words derived from it.
• « We all taste and vote if that dish is fit to "go out to work". This in our jargon means "to integrate the novelties of the winter menu of the restaurant of the owner of the recipe". »
• « Other free citizens could vote in many cases either in the election of officials or in the passing of laws, the latter of which were usually created by a council of elders (all of whom were aristocrats) - the elders were called archons. »
• « However, even in polemics where citizens did not directly vote on laws, there was a strong sense of community, from which the concept of civic virtue developed: the idea that the highest moral calling was to place the good of the community above one's own selfish desires. This concept was almost unparalleled in other parts of the ancient world. »
• « In an oligarchy, anyone with enough money could hold office, laws were written and known to all free citizens, and even the poorest citizens could vote (though only yes or no) on laws passed by the councils. »
• « Also, the Athenian democracy that had crystallised under Athens' Clisthenes, with about 10% of the total population having a vote in public affairs, was at its height during this period. »
• « All adult male citizens had one vote in the public assembly, while a smaller council handled day-to-day affairs. »
• « Home-born men who were wealthy enough to afford arms were allowed to vote, while home-born men who were poor were considered full Romans but had no vote. »
• « When Rome faced a major crisis, the Centurial Assembly could vote to appoint a dictator, a single man vested with all the power of the empire. »
• « The Centurian Assembly was divided into five different classes based on wealth (a system that ensured that the rich could always vote more than the poor). »
• « The king vacillated on this question for weeks, but when the representatives met in June 1789 he confirmed that the vote would be by Estates. This provoked a spontaneous, and for the moment peaceful, act of defiance from many of the Third Estate representatives, who were joined by some sympathetic nobles and priests. »
• « This was the first time in European history that every adult male was allowed the right to vote regardless of wealth or status. »
• « In January 1793, Louis XVI was executed as a traitor to the republic after a heated debate and a close vote in the Assembly. »
• « Conservatism was totally opposed to the idea of universal legal equality, let alone suffrage (i.e. the right to vote), and basically amounted to an attempt to maintain a legal political hierarchy to accompany the existing social and economic hierarchy in European society. »