One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.

One theory, dating from 1872, indicates that cooping – in which unwilling citizens who were forced to vote for a particular candidate were occasionally killed – was the cause of Poe's death.

One was a count of perjury in a civil deposition in Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton ( by a 205 – 229 vote ) and an article which accused Clinton of abuse of power by a 48 – 285 vote.

One variant that works this way is called the Contingent vote, detailed below.

Article One provides, " every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary ( except on a question of adjournment ) shall be presented to the President of the United States ; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives.

One of the shorter documents of the Council, the decree was approved by a vote of 2, 321 to 4 of the assembled bishops, and promulgated by Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965.

One of the shortest conciliar documents, it was approved by a vote of 2, 110 to 39 and promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964.

The claim for the women's vote appears to have been first made by Jeremy Bentham in 1817 when he published his Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism and was taken up by William Thompson in 1825, when he published, with Anna Wheeler, An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery: In Reply to Mr. Mill's Celebrated Article on Government.

( One person, one vote does not apply to the composition of the U. S. Senate because that chamber's makeup is prescribed by the U. S. Constitution.

One variation allows a player to vote for the definition he submitted, although he doesn't get points for doing so.

Their agreed " One Wales " programme included a commitment for both parties to campaign for a ' Yes ' vote in a referendum on full law-making powers for the Assembly, to be held at a time of the Welsh Assembly Government's choosing.

The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1995 – 96 escalated tensions between both sides when the PRC tested a series of missiles not far from Taiwan although, arguably, Beijing ran the test to shift the vote in favor of the KMT, already facing a challenge from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party which did not agree with the " One China Policy " shared by the CPC and KMT.

One major purpose was to recognize and protect the right of African Americans to vote.

One legislator insisted on the name Washington, but Columbia won out by a vote of 11-7 in the state senate.

One blank vote was cast in the second and final round.

The official report of these proceedings described the convention as the " largest and in all probability the most important Convention ever held " by the organization, in part for having engineered the " overwhelming defeat of the so-called Radical element " via crushing a " One Big Union proposition ", and also for defeating a proposal for a nationwide general strike, both " by a vote of more than 20 to 1.

One Nation achieved its peak of support in the 1998 Queensland state election, at which the party won 22. 7 % of the vote and 11 of the 89 seats.

However, since One Nation's vote was spread out across the state, this was only good enough for fourth place in the legislature behind Labor, the Liberals and Nationals.

In the 2001 Queensland state election, One Nation won only three seats and 8. 69 % of the primary vote.

This was largely due to the fact that voters of most other parties were unwilling to favourably preference One Nation, under Australia's single transferable vote voting system.

At the 2004 Queensland election, One Nation polled less than 5 % of the vote and its sole elected representative, Rosa Lee Long, acted as an independent.

In the February 2005 Western Australian election, the One Nation vote collapsed.

One of the coalition partners supporting the minority government ( the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam under J. Jayalalithaa ) wrote a letter to the President withdrawing support on 14 April 1999, and Narayanan advised Vajpayee to seek a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.

One struck the muzzle of one of the rifles that projected from the shoulder pack.

One by one he tossed the objects aside.

One cannot speak anymore of being, one must speak only of the mess.

One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

One evening he passed around the banquet table a crystal cup full of diamonds, requesting every female guest to select one as a souvenir.

One means to help the birds occurs to me: Let the chimes that ring over Washington Square twice daily, discontinue any piece of music but one.

One cannot but wonder whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev's agricultural policy have not at least something to do with one of the big surprises provided by this Congress -- the obsessive harping on the crimes and misdeeds of the `` anti-party group '' -- Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich and others -- including the eighty-year-old Marshal Voroshilov.

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

One had to believe in final events or one was stranded in the abyss of nothing.

One might pretend never to have seen one before, or, to more purpose, that there would never be another like it.

One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.

One assessor checked boats only, another trailers and tractors, one mentioned house trailers, and two others referred to trailers without specifying the type.

One state, Alabama, closes its fiscal year on September 30, and all cities in the state, with one exception, also close fiscal years on September 30.

One town and one city, Coventry and East Providence, require an adjustment of their fiscal year only.

One inch equals 2.54 centimeters: one cubic inch equals 16.38 cubic centimeters.

One of the more remarkable of the new cooling systems is one that can be switched to heating.

One might have expected that such a violent epoch of transition would have destroyed the creative flair of a composer, especially one whose works were so fluent and spontaneous.

One drop of each sample was added to one drop of a 2% suspension of group Af or group B red cells in a small Af test tube.

One might digress at this point and speculate that if it is `` wise '' to create special sections for special status, then why not a special section for women pregnant before marriage, and one for 44-year-old men with teenage children, and so on.

One by one, these errors were discussed and one by one he rejected accepting them as errors.

One learns to become alert to changes in his vocal tone -- to his voice's suddenly shifting to a quality not like his usual one, a quality which sounds somehow artificial or, in some instances, parrot-like.

One cannot assume, of course, that all these accumulated meanings were inherent in the stereotype at the beginning of the therapy, or at any one time later on when the stereotype was uttered ; ;

One might well wonder why the `` public is always wrong '' and the question raised is about as awkward as the one concerned with the chicken and the egg.