On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

On the third ballot Pennsylvania put him over the top.

Cleveland, in third place on the first ballot, picked up support in subsequent votes and emerged as the compromise choice.

One challenge that the Green Party ( as well as other third parties ) faces is the difficulty of overcoming ballot access laws in many states.

In a two-party system, voters have mostly two options ; in this sample ballot for an election in Summit, New Jersey | Summit, New Jersey, voters can choose between a Republican or Democrat, but there are no third party candidates.

In 1996, the Libertarian Party became the first third party to earn ballot status in all 50 states two presidential elections in a row.

He conducted a vigorous campaign against incumbent President Juho Kusti Paasikivi to finish third in the first and only ballot, receiving 62 votes in the electoral college, while Paasikivi was re-elected with 171.

Dewey led the first ballot, but was far short of a majority ; Taft was second, and Willkie was a surprisingly strong third.

Lincoln's ties to Council Bluffs were furthered strengthened by the fact that he had won the 1860 Republican nomination on the third ballot when the Iowa delegation switched its vote to him.

The third ballot saw Bland still in the lead, but Bryan took the lead on the fourth ballot.

Although he had not actively sought the nomination, Hughes made it known that he would not turn it down ; he won the nomination on the third ballot.

Imagine there is an election between four candidates: A, B, C and D. The first matrix below records the preferences expressed on a single ballot paper, in which the voter's preferences are ( B, C, A, D ); that is, the voter ranked B first, C second, A third, and D fourth.

The conclave proceeded as usual, and on the third ballot Cardinal Pecci was elected by forty-four votes out of sixty-one.

On 4 February 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the first ballot by 130 votes to 119, with Fraser coming in a distant third with 16 votes.

) Turner stayed on until the fourth and final ballot despite finishing a distant third behind Pierre Trudeau and runner-up Robert Winters.

Initially, the favourite among Red Tories was Flora MacDonald ; however she did worse than expected while Clark placed a surprising third in a field of eleven on the first ballot of convention delegates, behind only Claude Wagner and Brian Mulroney.

Following the June 28th, 2009 mid-term elections, half the Chamber of Deputies seats and one third of the seats in the Senate were subjected to the ballot box.

A third area is expected to be put on the ballot in the near future and would more than double the city in size.

The Soong-Lin ticket was listed third on the Election Day ballot as determined by a random draw.

Relander was elected in the third ballot of the electoral college, defeating the National Progressive Party candidate Risto Ryti by 172 votes to 109.

Ståhlberg was a National Progressive Party candidate in the 1931 Presidential election, eventually losing to Pehr Evind Svinhufvud by only two votes in the third ballot.

His numerous legal battles during the course of the election, along with a strong grassroots effort in friendly states, allowed him to appear on the ballot in 30 states and eased ballot access for later third party candidates.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

The third type, however, wrenches attention from the life of action and interests in the community and focuses it on the ground of being on which the community depends for its existence.

A third Thomas Bushell ( 1594-1674 ), `` much loved '' by Bacon, called himself `` The Superlative Prodigall '' in The First Part of Youths Errors ( 1628 ) and became an expert on silver mines and on the art of running into debt.

Maple and ash, beech and elm, one hundred to win on Three in the fourth, fifty to win on Six in the third, one hundred to win on Two in the eighth.

On December 5 he paced a mile in 55 on the twice-around, out in third position all the way.

Called the Marmara Gazinosu, it is on the third floor, with signs pointing the way there, and has a terrace overlooking the Sea of Marmara.

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

The third level leans on a belief that a lot of smoke means some fire.

Bernard Heuvelmans also treats of the largest snakes, but on the third level, and is chiefly concerned with the anaconda.

The marksman gets two bull's-eyes, one on his third shot and one on his fifth.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

Therefore, the third principle of the plan must be that it does not depend for effectiveness on engagement by the same types, unless at an assured favorable exchange rate.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

The eyeteeth ( third from the middle on top, counting each front tooth as the first ) beginning to protrude like fangs.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

A third wrote that it was `` raining like poring peas on a rawhide ''.

A third remarked of slowness of Southerners: `` they moved about from corner to corner, as uneasy as a litter of hungry leaches on the neck of a wooden god ''.

Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.