During the routine calling of names on the Senate floor on July 12, 2012, Senator Collins cast her 5, 000th consecutive roll-call vote, marking a streak that put her in third place behind Sen. Charles E. Grassley ( R-Iowa ) in second place and Sen. William Proxmire ( D-Wis ), who holds the number-one spot.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

During the time congress blocked funding for the contras, the Reagan government engaged in a campaign to alter public opinion and change the vote in congress on contra aid.

During the 1990s, the FDP won between 6. 2 and 11 percent of the vote in Bundestag elections.

During February 1975, after winning the leadership election, Margaret Thatcher refused to offer Powell a Shadow Cabinet place because " he turned his back on his own people " by leaving the Conservative Party exactly 12 months earlier and telling the electorate to vote Labour.

During the 1975 referendum on British membership of the EEC, Powell campaigned for a ' No ' vote.

During the final weekend of the election campaign Powell gave a speech in London reiterating his opposition to the nuclear hypothesis, calling it " barmy ", and advocating a vote for the Labour Party, which had unilateral nuclear disarmament as a policy.

During the 1876 presidential election, Tilden won the popular vote over his Republican opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, proving that the Democrats were once again competitive in the American political process following the Civil War.

During the 2011 federal election former Parti Québécois leader Jacques Parizeau campaigned with Duceppe and called on Parti Québécois members to vote for the Bloc.

During the American Revolution in 1776, Benjamin Martin ( Mel Gibson ), a veteran of the French and Indian War and widower with seven children, is called to Charleston to vote in the South Carolina General Assembly on a levy supporting the Continental Army.

During his march, 4, 000 black Mississippians registered to vote.

During the 2004 election campaign, she withheld support for Nader's bid, being among several " Nader 2000 Leaders " who signed a petition that urged voters to vote for Democratic Party candidate John Kerry.

During the Iraqi governorate elections, 2009 ISCI ran under the name al-Mehrab Martyr List, the ISCI did not perform as well as they hoped to, winning 6. 6 % of vote and 52 out of 440 seats.

) During the final episodes of Angel, Spike is the first to vote for Angel's plan to wound the Senior Partners by massacring the Circle of the Black Thorn.

During this time EIJ became more extreme, with for example, Dr. Fadl emphasizing the importance of takfir and execution of apostates, which he argued should include those who registered to vote, since this was a violation of God's sovereignty over governance.

During this period a controversial pay increase for commissioners and the county judge was passed by a 3-2 vote.

During the Tribal Council portion of the episode as aired, these votes and confessionals are not all shown ; this is done to maximize the suspense of the pending vote tally.

** During the 1998 and 1999 seasons, during the pre-merge portion of the competition when a tribe lost an immunity challenge the opposing tribe would vote to eliminate one of their members.

During the merge portion of the competition whenever someone was voted out before they left tribal council they would cast one more vote.

During World War I the Romanians from Hunedoara county actively supported the Romanian Army and at the conclusion of the war Transylvania united with Romania by popular vote ( see Union of Transylvania with Romania ).

During the following presidential election, he received 74 % of the vote.

During Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan and others used lynching as a means to control African Americans, forcing them to work for planters and preventing them from exercising their right to vote.

During city council meetings, the mayor presides, and all 5 members can vote on any issue.

During this session, the Belgian Mission at the UN asked for a vote on ILGA's application, because " The organization had applied for over ten years and met all prerequisites under the resolution.

During the next few years a vote was taken to take three more sections of the city and the end result was only the airport was annexed by the City of Grand Rapids.

During his weeks as senator, Barkley helped pass legislation establishing a memorial for Wellstone and provided a pivotal vote in clearing the final passage of the Homeland Security Act.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

During 1598 and 1599 he made `` manye Guiftes of myne owne provision bestowed uppon Cowrtiers & others for the better effectinge of our suites in hande ''.

During the war, we set up schools for the teaching of psychological warfare, which included the teaching of propaganda, both black and white and the various shades of grey in between.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 139 military and civilian students who came to the Institute for varying periods of special instruction.

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, additional research affiliations were effected with the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to conduct research in procedures for quantitative electron microscopy, and for the study of biophysical and biological studies of the structure and function of ocular tissue.

During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.

During these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

During all this time Roy continued to paint, first only on weekends, and then, as the family business permitted, for longer periods.

During Oersted's attendance at the university, it was poorly equipped with physical apparatus for experimenting in the sciences.

During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

During the summer of 1960, it became the setting for a bitter and basic labor-management struggle.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

During the assignment pass, each instruction is examined for reference to the symbolic name of an index word or electronic switch.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

During this time he served as shepherd for King Admetus of Pherae in Thessaly.

During the breeding season, unpaired male aardwolves will search their own territory, as well as others ', for a female to mate with.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.