By allowing parents and students to " vote with their feet ," they incentivize schools to increase accountability and school performance.

By a vote of 23 to 17, the senate voted to kill the motion by laying it on the table with every senator from states south of Missouri voting for the tabling.

By convention the serving Prime Minister is given first opportunity to reach agreements that will allow them to survive a vote of confidence in the House and continue to govern.

By 1829, 60 % of the state's free white males were ineligible to vote.

By this broader definition the two-round system is not the only form of run-off voting, and others include the exhaustive ballot and instant run-off voting ( also known as the alternative vote ).

By withdrawing candidates a political faction can avoid the " spoiler effect ", whereby a candidate " splits the vote " of its supporters.

By a vote of the House of Commons, a monument was erected in his honour in St Paul's Cathedral, Abercromby Square in Liverpool is named in his honour.

By vote of the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Sixth Sense was awarded the Nebula Award for Best Script during 1999.

By 1873, however, he had adapted his ideas to take account of the secret vote.

* April 12 – By a vote of 45 – 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.

* December 4 – By a vote of 65 – 7, the United States Senate approves the entry of the United States into the United Nations.

** United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379: By a vote of 72 – 35 ( with 32 abstentions ), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism.

By winning 523 electoral votes, Roosevelt received 98. 49 % of the electoral vote, the highest percentage since 1820.

By the summer Perot commanded a lead in the presidential race with thirty-nine percent of the vote.

By this estimate, 95 % of the population ( of roughly 13 million people, at the time ) remained with no vote, including all women.

By refusing to vote on a motion, the minority could ensure that a quorum would not be achieved, and that the result would be invalid.

By a majority of one member ( 29 – 28 ) the committee voted to certify Johnson's nomination, with the last vote cast on Johnson's behalf by Temple, Texas, publisher Frank W. Mayborn, who rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee.

By 1851, at the second National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, the issue of women's right to vote had become a central tenet of the women's rights movement.

By the time Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency in 1980, fundamentalist preachers, like the prohibitionist ministers of the early 20th century, were organizing their congregations to vote for supportive candidates.

By the middle of the season, an emergency town meeting is called to vote on whether Dale should be dismissed.

By December 8, 2000, there had been multiple court decisions regarding the presidential election in Florida and on that date the Florida Supreme Court, by a 4-3 vote, ordered a statewide manual recount.

By 1990, exasperated by decades of the city not filing papers or following municipal procedures, the state of Florida ruled all of Islandia's elections illegal on the grounds that only land owners, as opposed to all residents, had been permitted to vote, in violation of voting-rights laws.

By December of 1854 this area that Dyer had been calling Pomfret was renamed Rushford after a vote during a Christmas dinner served at Dyer's home.

By November 25, 2008, the provisional vote counts had been tallied, and the name change won by 25 votes.

By 1951 laws were passed by the Bundestag ending denazification.

By the time the first national elections were held in the Federal Republic in 1949, Kiesinger had joined the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and won a seat in the Bundestag, the West German parliament.

By 2002 and 2003 cross-party resolutions of the Bundestag reached a compromise to support at least a partial rebuilding of the Stadtschloss, but no definite decision was made.

By 1942, with the war industries booming and the draft in operation, need declined and Congress voted to close the program.

By June 68 the senate voted Galba the emperor and declared Nero a public enemy.

By 1933, however, the continued operation of the school was untenable ( it was raided by the Gestapo in April ), and in July of that year, Mies and the faculty voted to close the Bauhaus.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

By 1815, Williams had only two buildings and 58 students and was in financial trouble, so the board voted to move the college to Amherst, Massachusetts.

By the end of the year, due to dwindling active membership and limited remaining development capacity, the XFree86 Core Team voted to disband itself.

Hamilcar next invited Hanno to join forces, but cooperation between them was ineffective and the Peoples assembly voted to give Hamilcar sole command By the power of his personal influence among the mercenaries and the surrounding African peoples, superior strategy and some luck, Hamilcar, and also cooperation, if unenthusiastic, from Hanno the Great, Hamilcar crushed the revolt by ( 237 BC ) amid a war marked with cruelty atrocities from both sides.

By a close vote, citizens voted to change the name to " Aurora " in a display of their growing dissatisfaction with the Holland Land Company and its stockholders, which included Wilheim Willink.

By 1959, Vandalia was outgrowing its " village " status, and its citizens voted to make it a council-manager form of government, effectively making the village into a municipal corporation.

By 1898, the village voted to disband the communal society and the property was divided among the remaining residents.

By 1838, there were 36 houses on the island, and in 1861 the island voted 132-2 not to secede from the Union and against slavery.

By 1900, the population reached 475, and residents voted to form their own school district.

By the end of 1908, the International Sections voted for Leadbeater's readmission.

By the morning of October 13 Burgoyne's army was completely surrounded, so his council voted to open negotiations.

By law, the committee had to collect signatures from registered California voters amounting to 12 % of the number of Californians who voted in the previous gubernatorial election ( November 2002 ) for the special recall vote to take place.

By 1999 Kennett was voted out, but key landmarks that his government commissioned, such as the Crown Casino, the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre and the new Melbourne Museum, remain.

By the end of the night's battles the dancers seemed always to have voted Chick's band as the best.

By his third season with the Mavericks, he was voted into his first NBA All-Star Game and had earned his first All-NBA selection.

By 1976, the club boasted a membership of 100, 000 people, and in 1978, was voted the world's number one discotheque by Billboard Magazine.

By 1927, he was voted seventh most popular announcer in a national poll.

By a 9 – 4 decision the council " voted to sustain the complaint that the Star Tribune editorial unfairly characterized the scientific reputations of Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling.

In 1970, " Farewell Is a Lonely Sound ," " I'll Say Forever My Love " and " It's Wonderful ( To Be Loved By You )" each made the UK top ten, and he was voted the world's top singer in one British poll.