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second and vote
In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.
The second vote is cast for a party list ; it determines the relative strengths of the parties represented in the Bundestag.
The distribution of the seats of that party to the 16 Lands is proportional to that party's second vote results in the Lands.
If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.
In the non-USSR annexed portion of Poland, less than a third of Poland's population voted in favor of massive communist land reforms and industry nationalizations in a policies referendum known as " 3 times YES " ( 3 razy TAK ; 3xTAK ), whereupon a second vote rigged election was held to get the desired result.
Pinochet was, as expected, the candidate proposed, and he was denied a second 8 year term by 54. 5 % of the vote.
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.
A second difficulty might be the ability of minor parties to play " kingmaker " and, particularly in close elections, gain far more for their support than their vote would otherwise indicate.
He secured, during the council's second period, 1551 – 53, an invitation, twice given, to the Protestants to be present and the council issued a letter of safe conduct ( thirteenth session ) and offered them the right of discussion, but denied them a vote.
As of the 2010 season, each voter places a vote for first, second, third, fourth and fifth place among the pitchers of each league.
Before that, dating back to 1970, writers voted for three pitchers, with the formula of 5 points for a first place vote, 3 for a second place vote and 1 for a third place vote.
2002 — Prime Minister Terepai Maoate is ousted from government following second vote of no-confidence in his leadership.
A woman casts her vote in the second round of the French presidential election of 2007
If a second party from a region wants to join the first party needs to agree, these two parties will then form a common delegation with one vote.
It received 16. 5 % of the vote at the 2009 European Parliament elections, putting it in second place ahead of the then governing Labour Party.
* 2004: The Europe-Democracy-Esperanto party ( E ° D ° E °) contests the European Parliament elections in France, on a platform of making Esperanto the second language of all EU member states, taking 0. 15 % of the vote.
Nevertheless, Portillo's impressive electoral triumph, with two-thirds of the vote in the second round, gave him a claim to a mandate from the people to carry out his reform program.
Megawati's PDI-P party had won the largest share of the vote ( 34 %) in the general election, while Golkar, the dominant party during the Soeharto era, came in second ( 22 %).
The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan was in second place with some 26 % of the vote.
An official who is impeached faces a second legislative vote ( whether by the same body or another ), which determines conviction, or failure to convict, on the charges embodied by the impeachment.
* 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.

second and directing
While shooting Jinxed !, a comedy drama starring Bette Midler and Rip Torn, Siegel asked Peckinpah if he would be interested in directing 12 days of second unit work.
They made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound, and reached fame with their second film The Matrix ( 1999 ), for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director.
Locke filed a palimony suit against Eastwood, then sued him a second time for fraud, regarding a phony directing contract he set up for her in settlement of the first lawsuit.
The second year, the directing award followed the others in listing all of a director's work during the qualifying period, resulting in Frank Lloyd being nominated for three of his films — but, even more confusingly, only one of them was listed on the final award as the film for which he won.
When Athamas returned to his second wife, Ino, Themisto ( his third wife ) sought revenge by dressing her children in white clothing and Ino's in black and directing the murder of the children in black.
Because of the relatively late emergence of theatre directing as a performing arts profession when compared to for instance acting or musicianship, a rise of professional vocational training programmes in directing can be seen mostly in the second half of the 20th century.
The process of editing a movie is also seen as the second directing because through the post production it is possible to change the intention of the movie.
Durst began to take an interest in directing, and directed a music video for Limp Bizkit's single " Faith " in promotion for its appearance in the film Very Bad Things, but was unsatisfied with it, and directed a second video which paid tribute to tourmates like Primus, Deftones and Mötley Crüe, who appeared in the video.
Lester recalls that A Show Called Fred was " broadcast live and that's why I went into film directing where you can do a second take!
He has also worked at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1988 as Assistant director on a number of productions including Major Barbara and directed in ' The Tent ', the second venue and later at the Royal National Theatre, directing Edward Bond's The Sea, Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, and Othello with Simon Russell Beale as Iago.
Duel was Spielberg's second feature-length directing effort, after his 1971 The Name of the Game NBC-TV series episode L. A. 2017.
Garner himself directed one episode, " The Girl in The Bay City Boys ' Club ," in the show's second season ( as of 2008, Garner's only directing credit ).
After the 1942-43 Lights Out, Oboler continued to work in radio ( Everything for the Boys and revivals of Arch Oboler's Plays ) and pursued a second career in filmmaking, first in the Hollywood mainstream and then as an independent producer, writing and directing a number of offbeat, low-budget films, including Five, about survivors of a nuclear war, The Twonky, a satire of television, and the 3-D film Bwana Devil, which made a huge profit on a small investment.
After directing his second opera We Come to the River in 1976, Schlöndorff followed The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum with the equally political Coup de Grâce in 1976.
In this second essay, Zukofsky expands on the basic tenets of Objectivist poetics, stating that in sincerity " Writing occurs which is the detail, not mirage, of seeing, of thinking with the things as they exist, and of directing them along a line of melody ", and that objectification relates to " the appearance of the art form as an object ".
The earliest use of military aircraft was for observation and directing of artillery but strafing was frequently practiced in World War I. Trenches and supply columns were routinely attacked from the air in the second half of the war.
Campion is the second of four women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is also the first female filmmaker in history to receive the Palme d ' Or for directing the acclaimed film The Piano ( 1993 ).
It was because of his talent for directing comedy that he was chosen to handle the second series of Fawlty Towers in 1979, which already had an enormous reputation on the basis of its initial six episodes in 1975, and it won him his first BAFTA award.
For its second run, the contest was split into two categories: writing and directing.
Shatner's Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy guested in the second season episode " Vengeance is Mine ", as well as directing " The Decoy ", also in the second season.
Venus Flytrap ) for one episode, and Howard Hesseman ( Dr. Johnny Fever ) appearing in nine episodes total ( four in the first season, five in the second ), as well as directing several other episodes.
His second directing feature, The Proprietor, starred Jeanne Moreau, Sean Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Christopher Cazenove and was filmed on location in Paris.

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