All of the elders except three voted for death, but a majority of the deputies refused to sanction the sentence.

The corporation voted on September 27, 1598, that Quiney should ride to London about the suit to Sir John Fortescue, chancellor of the Exchequer, for discharging of the tax and subsidy.

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

All nine members of the Inter-American Center Authority voted for Goodbody & Company's proposal to finance the long-awaited trade and cultural center.

Douglas has voted for aid to Communists and for the destruction of individual freedom ( public housing, foreign aid, etc. ).

Eighteen voted for assessment by the town in which it is located and eleven preferred assessment by the town in which the owner resides.

For the school year, 1959-1960, the Prince Edward County ( Virginia ) Board of Supervisors voted not to provide funds for public education, and the school board therefore could provide no public education -- for white or Negro children.

The NLRB said that of 11 potentially eligible voters eight voted against the union, two voted for it, and one vote was challenged.

North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas also voted for secession over the next two months.

The indecision did not last long: during May 1963 the CCITT Working Party on the New Telegraph Alphabet proposed to assign lower case characters to columns 6 and 7, and International Organization for Standardization TC 97 SC 2 voted during October to incorporate the change into its draft standard.

The X3. 2. 4 task group voted its approval for the change to ASCII at its May 1963 meeting.

The population of Armenia voted overwhelmingly for independence in a September 1991 referendum, followed by a presidential election in October 1991 that gave 83 % of the vote to Levon Ter-Petrosyan.

Alcott voted in a presidential election for the first time in 1860.

I had marched, I had voted, I had gone to jail on political actions and worked for the candidates I believed in.

On all three occasions, 35 senators voted " guilty " and 19 " not guilty ", thus falling short by a single vote of the two-thirds majority required for conviction in impeachment trials.

Under this anything passed by the assembly or even proposed but not yet voted on, could be put on hold for review before a jury — which might annul it and perhaps punish the proposer as well.

* 1999 – East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.

She is a committed animal lover and one of the few Conservative MPs to have consistently voted for the ban on fox hunting.

After the six-year voting ban on Bal Thackeray was lifted in 2005, he voted for the first time in the 2006 BMC elections .< ref name =" Voting ban lifted ">

In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals, Blackadder Goes Forth placed 16th.

Debate on keeping or changing the New Zealand Flag started before May 1973, when a remit to change the flag was voted down by the Labour Party at their national conference.

In 2011 it won its first Green Flag award and was again voted London's favourite park, this time in the national People's Choice Award.

They voted to organise a strike and left singing The Red Flag.

On other issues he is more liberal: he often votes with his party on separation of church and states issues, and has consistently voted against the Flag Desecration Amendment.

The most spectacular and well-known of these is Trunk Bay, which has consistently been voted one of the " Ten Best Beaches in The World " by Condé Nast Traveler magazine, has received similar recognition from other publications and is a Flag rated beach.

He was one of just two MPPs in the province who voted against the adoption of the current Flag of Ontario -- the Sudbury area has a large Franco-Ontarian population, who largely considered the flag a symbol of British imperialism, and Sopha argued in the legislature that the flag was not an appropriate symbol of Ontario's cultural diversity.

The farm was home to Hall of Fame racehorses Man o ' War, U. S. Triple Crown winner War Admiral, Crusader as well as other successful thoroughbreds such as Massachusetts Handicap winner War Relic, and American Flag, a son of Man o ' War who won the 1925 Belmont Stakes and was voted Champion 3-year-old Male Horse.

On September 24, 1789, the House of Representatives voted to recommend the First Amendment of the newly drafted Constitution to the states for ratification.

The American Equal Rights Association ( AERA ), which had originally fought for both blacks ’ and women ’ s right to suffrage, voted to support the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, granting suffrage to black men, but not women.

Under the rules of the Twelfth Amendment, presidential electors were required to specify in their votes their choice for president and vice-president ; previously, electors voted only for president, with the person who came in second becoming the vice-president.

In 2006, the city's residents voted against Amendment 1, which sought to ban same-sex marriage in South Carolina.

The Senate has only voted on cloture motions with regard to the proposed Amendment, the last of which was on June 7, 2006 when the motion failed 49 yea to 48 nay votes, falling short of the 60 yea votes required to proceed to consideration of the Amendment and the 67 votes which would be required to pass the amendment.

She also voted in favor of the 1998 Abortion Funding Amendment, which would have allowed the use of district funds to promote abortion-related activities, but would have prohibited the use of federal funds.

Pelosi voted against the 1995 Balanced Budget Proposed Constitutional Amendment, which was passed by the House by a 300 – 132 vote, but in the Senate fell two votes short of the 2 / 3 supermajority required ( with 65 out of 100 Senators voting in favor ).

In 1996 she voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, and in 2004 and 2006, she voted against the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, which would amend the United States Constitution to define marriage federally as being between one man and one woman, thereby overriding states ' individual rights to legalize gay marriage.

Though he voted for the flag-burning amendment, he voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment and he opposed restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba, and was one of only two Republicans to vote in favor of terminating funds for TV Martí, which broadcasts anti-Castro programming in Cuba.

He has voted against the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, which would have proposed an amendment to the Constitution to bar recognition of same-sex marriages.

Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union,, is a United States Supreme Court case in which all nine Justices of the Court voted to strike down anti-indecency provisions of the Communications Decency Act ( the CDA ), finding they violated the freedom of speech provisions of the First Amendment.

Snyder voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, the ban on partial-birth abortions, banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers and distributors, bankruptcy reform, drilling in ANWR, and on October 10, 2002, he was among the 133 members of the House who voted against authorizing the invasion of Iraq.

And despite his support of a Federal Marriage Amendment, on June 15, 2004, Miller again voted with all his fellow Democratic senators to include sexual orientation in hate crime laws with the Matthew Shepard Act.

In 1998, McConnell voted for Barbara Boxer's Trigger Lock Amendment 3230 ( see U. S. Senate Roll Call Vote here ), which required the purchase of a trigger lock with the sale of each handgun.

He voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act but against the Federal Marriage Amendment.

Agreeing with the majority in both parties, Collins voted in favor of the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, which could give President Bush and the executive branch the authorization for military force against Iran.

In 1998, Shelby voted for Senator Barbara Boxer's Trigger Lock Amendment 3230, requiring the purchase of a trigger lock with the sale of each handgun.

In 1998, Shelby voted for Senator Barbara Boxer's Trigger Lock Amendment 3230, a law requiring the purchase of a trigger lock with the sale of each handgun.

" During the 109th Congress, Inhofe voted to increase offshore oil drilling, to include provisions for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the House Budget Amendment, and to deny funding for both low-income energy assistance and environmental stewardship, citing heavy costs and unproven programs.

In 2006, he voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment and in 2007 voted for the Matthew Shepard Act, which expanded the federal hate crime law to include sexual orientation and disability.