Example sentences of "voted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union also voted for a further strike ballot on the new contracts . |
| 2 | But many of the Andalucian farm workers who voted for the Socialists in 1982 and 1986 are turning to Mr Pacheco 's party to voice their discontent . |
| 3 | On election day , in June 1987 , 84 per cent of Mirror readers ( and only slightly less Guardian and Telegraph/Times/ Financial Times readers ) voted for the party they had preferred a year earlier , in the summer of 1986 . |
| 4 | Despite the warnings of Callaghan and Healey , the TUC at its conference in September 1977 voted for a return to ‘ unfettered collective bargaining ’ , with Jones and Scanlon taking the adverse view . |
| 5 | Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward . |
| 7 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 8 | The minority which voted for a ‘ sovereign party within a renewed Soviet Communist party ’ arranged to meet last night to consider its position . |
| 9 | Earlier this year , in May , they voted for change , but when Noriega disavowed the election result the mass of the people shrugged their shoulders and went back to work . |
| 10 | They voted for a restoration of a betrayed heritage of wild flowers and healthy trees . |
| 11 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 12 | A Conservative government , if you believe their manifesto , ought not even to be considering putting money into dying private-sector firms , but Huerter employ a lot of people , many of whom voted for this government . |
| 13 | East Germans will get what they voted for , and much else besides . |
| 14 | Although some Catholics ( and fewer Protestants ) voted for the socialist platform of Paddy Devlin or the militancy of Bernadette McAliskey ( née Devlin ) , most voted for Hume . |
| 15 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 16 | Mr Steyn suggested one Prime Suspect voter may have said they voted for GBH , and then ‘ a little lie snowballed ’ . |
| 17 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a clear majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 18 | Mr Steyn suggested one Prime Suspect voter may have said they voted for GBH , and then ‘ a little lie snowballed ’ . |
| 19 | The truth is , I look upon both candidates in the same light , and should think myself a traitor to the constitution of my country if I voted for either . |
| 20 | Leaders from the self-proclaimed Serbian Assembly of Bosnia voted for independence in an early morning session in their stronghold in the northern city of Banja Luka . |
| 21 | Asked by an exit pollster which way he had cast his vote , he replied : ‘ I voted for the party that is going to run the country for the next five years . ’ |
| 22 | A number of women have told me they voted for him because they felt sorry for him , because he was a trier , a bit of an underdog , because he was a hubby figure , the man they would most like to buy a pullover for , a man who knows where his slippers are . |
| 23 | I voted for Truman . ’ |
| 24 | But people like me voted for them . |
| 25 | The people who voted for what are called ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ fascist ’ parties in France and Germany seem to have mostly done so , however mistakenly , for one reason only : fear that the stability of their countries is threatened by unassimilable immigrants and bogus ‘ asylum-seekers ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ As you voted for me , ’ he told that turbulent Labour MP , ‘ why do you not support my authority or at least let me know beforehand what you intend to do ? ’ |
| 27 | He voted for the cricketer . |
| 28 | He voted for Mr Heseltine rather than Mrs Thatcher in the 1990 leadership contest . |
| 29 | Betty Rizzo observes that Philip Leapor voted for the first time in the 1749 election for Knight of the Shire , and judges from this that he had used the capital from the subscription to buy his freehold [ Rizzo ] . |
| 30 | On 1 March 1950 it voted for Security Council Resolution 465 calling on Israel to dismantle its settlements ( including East Jerusalem ) . |