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.

He supported the 1982 extension of the Voting Rights Act, though he voted against establishing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday.

In the event, only Spain had actually voted against: Austria, Belgium and Italy abstained ( which has the same effect as voting against, given the way Qualified Majority Voting works ).

His Voting record includes voting against a smoking ban, equal gay rights, the hunting ban and removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords, he has also voted for stricter asylum system and has never voted on a transparent Parliament.

During this time, he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

* Colt Brennan 2003, quarterback for the University of Hawaii, voted third in 2007 Heisman Voting

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 suspended the use of literacy tests in all states or political subdivisions in which less than 50 percent of voting-age residents were registered as of November 1, 1964, or had voted in the 1964 presidential election.

He voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

** Voting results, including how individual members voted

Voting for the awards is done by " an academy of industry executives, the media, the British Association of Record Dealers ( BARD ), members of the Musicians Union, lawyers, promoters, and orchestra leaders ," except for " Album of the Year " which is voted for by listeners of Classic FM.

In this referendum 57. 7 % of British Columbians ( just short of the 60 % necessary ) voted in favour of the Single Transferable Voting system, while 43 % voted against it.

Voting is generally done verbally, and whether the motion is carried depends on the Speaker's personal assessment of whether more MPs have voted for than against the motion.

Voting members of the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries voted to merge the bodies to form the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

In May 2001, " Don't Dream it's Over " was voted 7th in a poll of the Best Australian Songs of Alltime by the Australasian Performing Rights Association.

South Africa also voted against the resolution, arguing that since there were no peace and security concerns raised by its neighbours, the question did not belong in the Security Council when there were other more appropriate bodies to represent it, adding, " Ironically, should the Security Council adopt resolution ... the Human Rights Council would not be able to address the situation in Myanmar while the Council remains seized with the matter.

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.

Most Democrats and Republicans in the Senate — in fact four-fifths of the members of his own party — voted for the Civil Rights Act, but not Senator Goldwater.

On 15 March 2006, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to replace UNCHR with the UN Human Rights Council.

Congress quickly passed the Civil Rights bill ; the Senate on February 2 voted 33 – 12 ; the House on March 13 voted 111 – 38.

Pelosi received a 100 % rating from the Human Rights Campaign for the 107th, 108th, and 109th sessions of Congress, indicating that she voted in agreement with HRC's slate of pro-gay legislative issues.

In the 199-1930 era, German Catholics generally voted for the Liberal ticket ( rather than the Provincial Rights and Conservative tickets ), seeing Liberals as more willing to protect religious minorities.

On June 8, 1771, the town voted to stand ready " to preserve and Defend Our Own Lawfull Rights Libertys and propertys even to the last Extremity ".

Wallace and his aides sought to determine if Barry M. Goldwater, the forthcoming GOP presidential nominee who as a senator from Arizona had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on libertarian and constitutional grounds, would advocate repeal of the law, particularly the public accommodations and equal employment sections.

On 20 May 1998 the House of Commons voted to ratify the 6th Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibiting capital punishment except " in time of war or imminent threat of war.

He was a leading member of a group of liberal and moderate Republicans in the House who voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, voted by the National Constituent Assembly, seemed to some in the church to mark the appearance of the antichrist, in that they excluded Christian morality from the new ' natural order '.

He later voted for the Credit Cardholders ' Bill of Rights and the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009.

On September 13, 2007 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the “ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples .” A total of 144 states or countries voted in favor.

In 2006, she voted " no " on the Child Custody Protection Act, Public Expression of Religion Act, Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act, Military Commissions Act, and Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 2006.

Gore could not, however, be regarded as an out-and-out integrationist, having voted against some major civil rights legislation including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In 1957, he voted for the Civil Rights Act, which created the Division of Civil Rights within the U. S. Justice Department and the investigatory Civil Rights Commission.

The Southern states, traditionally Democratic up to that time, voted Republican primarily as a statement of opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Civil Rights Act, which had been passed by Johnson and the Democrats in Congress earlier that year.

Indeed, in some cases, notably the re-election of Senator Al Gore Sr., a majority of black voters cast their votes for a man who voted against the Civil Rights Act.