Citizens in Vermont control their municipal affairs by putting forward proposals, or backing up others' suggestions, until a consensus is reached through a vote.

佛蒙特州的公民通过提出建议或支持他人的建议来控制他们的市政事务，直到他们通过投票达成共识。

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The East Timorese voted to secede from Indonesian control in a referendum in 1999 - a vote that will be remembered for the brutality of militiamen who tried to disrupt the process.

东帝汶选民1999年在一次全民公决中投票脱离了印尼的控制。由于武装分子为干扰投票犯下的残暴行径，人们不会忘记那次全民公决。

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The Socialists are left in control of just Extremadura and two regions that did not vote—Andalusia and the Basque country.

工人社会党仅仅控制着埃斯特雷马和尚未投票的安达卢西亚和巴斯克两个地区。

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He called the vote an "important step forward" as the Afghan people seek to control their future.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

"I think that there are,already, concerns that the interim government will use their control of the local governments to stuff the ballots and rig the vote."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

But the military government is set to maintain tight control over the vote amid calls by Burmese political activists for the international community to boycott the election result.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

Lindsey Graham, a leading Republican and tough Obama critic, told CNN's Jim Acosta that he would not block a vote on gun control in the Senate.

CNN: Obama's emotional plea might lead to vote on guns

Judicial administrators use their powers to call a meeting of shareholders immediately, and vote the shares they control to replace old directors with new ones.

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As a bipartisan group of fifteen former senators recently observed, never before in the history of the U.S. Senate has the deliberation and vote on an arms control agreement been truncated by their being conducted during a lame-duck session.

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