| 词汇 | example_english_block-vote |
| 释义 | Examples of block voteThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In 18321885 the blockvote was used to elect two members and first past the post to return one member at by-elections. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We are the authors of the amendments which you have just put to a blockvote. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English She had a blockvote system in which the party which got the greatest number of votes got all the seats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What will he do to end the absurdity of the blockvote system at annual general meetings? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Coming from the party with the trade union blockvote, that is just amazing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I entirely dislike the plan of a blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should apply similar standards to the exercise of what is, in effect, a massive business blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Few people hear the arguments and then the blockvote is trooped in—or bussed in—and that is that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The statement including that objective was approved by the curious mechanism of the blockvote by a majority of 5,883,000 to 122,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He spoke of the hypocrisy of the blockvote as a means of co-called democracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there not a compelling case for this reform as a minimum, if only to end the iniquity of the blockvote? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In particular, the initial blockvote of 80 amendments contained positive modifications looking to promote women's participation in the labour market and promoting work-life balance. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We do not have the blockvote, so we are not affected by this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their feeble new industrial policies have about as much impact as one man against a blockvote at their annual conference. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not much of a blockvote having 1.5 votes instead of only one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have never in my life heard any philosophical or constitutional justification of the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is they who have a vested interest in the politics of the blockvote and the smoke-filled room. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hesitate to use the expression "blockvote" given the number of trade union affiliations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Otherwise, the blockvote of the central belt will just overwhelm it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My understanding was that it is an organisation committee with a number of different interests represented, and that each section has one blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be worse than the trade union blockvote if, presumably. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The blockvote often represents those who did not know that they were voting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that there is now a blockvote against by the group. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English To pursue the voting as a blockvote today would, to my mind, be unfortunate. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It is a blockvote, which is a bit unfashionable these days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It only professes to apply proportional representation in the place of the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a blockvote in the sense that one body can block the whole thing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He achieved that because of the mechanism of the branch blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is going to happen under the blockvote? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For one thing, it introduces a system which is, in effect, the system of the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He can also reject that and accept the minority view, which may represent the minority view of only one blockvote on the organisation committee. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is why they have the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The blockvote, votes at dawn and other undemocratic practices are just not on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This means the end of the blockvote and voting by show of hands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often they would never have supported the blockvote had they been aware of what was going on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are told that the trade unions are going to try to organise a blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is appointment of the trade union representatives to be made by the blockvote? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may negotiate the blockvote, which is the antithesis of democracy, but they do not understand the process of democracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is that a new definition of the blockvote? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is not trying to eliminate the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A number of major unions still preserve the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the same time, it would give at least some respectability to the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course the pitiful number of votes actually cast is usually masked by the use of the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have never been happy with the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The methods of election in use, such as voting at branch meetings and the blockvote, are guaranteed to reduce participation to a minimum and to distort the results. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Would they cast a blockvote of 10, or, when there was a difference of opinion, would they split the vote 7–3, 5–5 or 8–2? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The blockvote is a monstrous arrangement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But it means that the conduct of those who head the union is very watchful of the large blockvote for which the women are responsible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will be open to all member states, which will provide a guarantee against the creation of an inner core of member states that operate as a blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He indeed casts a blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is always a worry that a residential home may deliver a blockvote because its frail, elderly and confused residents have been organised by someone in the home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sooner he gets rid of the idea that the big blockvote cast in his favour is the equivalent of commendation from the public the better. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will be by branch blockvote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Audience members at each blockvote for their favorite film and winners are announced on the spot. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Approximately one third of members are theoretically returned each by corporate blockvote only, a mixture of corporate and individual votes, and individuals only. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He was elected to the 4th and final spot in the blockvote with 236,382 votes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They grouped together as a blockvote in committee elections and to influence party policy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Despite these appointments, two senator nominees were selected in a blockvote, that was broken down along municipal electoral districts instead of provincial electoral districts. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It was also because railroad employees tended to exercise a blockvote. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The trade union blockvote, which generally voted with the leadership, ensured that the bevanites were eventually defeated. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He finished 4th out of 5th place in the blockvote. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It must be remembered that these two unions carry enormous power with their block votes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The trade unions can continue to march their ghost armies through party conferences and brandish their block votes if that is what their members wish. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will everybody vote on the principle of one member, one vote, or will some unions supposedly use block votes, if they want to do so? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not he thankful that in framing industrial laws, his party conferences have not been tainted by the block votes of the trade union ballots? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why did he use his 15 block votes against a peace proposal supported by 19 of the 24 elected representatives? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Election to office does not mean that the office should be occupied for life or control the block votes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The party is financed by trade unions, and it allows them to dominate the decisions of its conferences by their block votes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have had that problem with block votes and electoral colleges; it has always been difficult to live with. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let no one believe for a moment that those delegates who voted were only those with block votes in their pockets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then it progressed further to block votes for the branches, and that was manipulated too. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He mentioned block votes, but obviously they are block votes: "in connection with any election to a political office". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They cannot be consulted on share buying or selling any more than were trade union members before their leaders cast block votes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There must also be an end to the scandal of union block votes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The board treated these criticisms with lofty disdain and with an arrogance, armed as it was with the block votes of the large, unaccountable institutions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We could perhaps have block votes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will the trade unions allow block votes? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has allowed trade union leaders to use gross rather than net—that is, actual net votes approving their action—block votes to force action, yet still call it democratic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that they take no real interest in what the ordinary men and women—apart from the block votes they get from the trade unions—are thinking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those present, but not voting, could block votes and prevent a quorumthe technique of the disappearing quorum. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In those sectors with mixed voting, four have a greater number of block votes than individual electors. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Block voting regularly produces complete landslide majorities for the group of candidates with the highest level of support. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. At the time, house rules allowed 20 members to block votes on a private member's bill. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A slate of clones of the top preferred candidate will win every seat under both systems, however in preferential block voting this is instead the instant-runoff winner. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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