By a vote of 338-320, the Bundestag voted to move the seat of government to Berlin.

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 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 this time, as we shall see, the Tories were already planning to `` punish '' Steele for his political writing by expelling him from the House of Commons.

By Otto's marriage to Eilika, daughter of Magnus, Duke of Saxony, the Ascanians became heirs to half of the property of the House of Billung, former dukes of Saxony.

By June 23, the situation appeared to have normalised, with members of the House of Ariki accepting to return to their regular duties.

By 1850, Newson was a prosperous businessman and was able to build Alde House, a mansion on a hill behind Aldeburgh.

By May 1914 the Bill had complied with the requirements set down by the Parliament Act 1911, allowing the government to force its enactment over the heads of the unionist-dominated House of Lords.

By the Constitution, the Diet is the most powerful from the three branches and consists of two houses ; the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors.

By December 1996 the Conservatives had lost their majority in the House of Commons.

By 1763, Tulsipur-Dang Rajya fell and by 1775 AD, Chauhan Raja Nawal Singh of House of Tulsipur was completely defeated.

By the end of the English Civil War, the monarchy, House of Lords and Privy Council were abolished.

By convention, the party or political grouping which has majority support in the House of Assembly will nominate its leader to be Premier.

By joining the House of Martok, Worf's status in the empire was restored.

By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, Waits was playing in an R & B / soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City ( about which he would later sing on " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" from Small Change and " The Ghosts of Saturday Night ( After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House )" on The Heart of Saturday Night ).

By 1875 the conservative white Southern opposition regained control of every state in the South and as he left the White House in March 1877 his policies were being undone.

By the time of the American Civil War, the White House had become overcrowded.

By 1948, the house was declared to be in imminent danger of collapse, forcing President Truman to commission a reconstruction and move across the street to Blair House from 1949 to 1951.

By the time of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 Rhodesia only had representative offices in London, Bonn, Pretoria, Washington, D. C. and Tokyo.

** Shooting of the Romanov family: By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by the Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, and retainers are executed at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

By the end of the century, both the Capetian Dynasty and the House of Anjou are relying primarily on mercenaries in their militaries.

By 1893, his views on silver had evolved, and on the floor of the House of Representatives, he delivered a riveting three-hour address against repeal of the Silver Purchase Act.

By 1900, the White House staff included one " secretary to the president " ( then the title of the president's chief aide ), two assistant secretaries, two executive clerks, a stenographer, and seven other office personnel.

By abstaining from further votes, they allowed the legislation to pass in the House of Lords, and the Crown was not forced to create new peers.