Some 3.5 million votes were cast for favorite questions on a variety of topics, including unemployment, the federal budget, the country's financial stability, home ownership, health care and education.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

For this reason, Plato has often been cast as a kind of harbinger of the modern totalitarian state.

因此柏拉图,常被视为是现在,极权主义国家的先驱。

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Voter turnout was 77 percent with many voters standing in line for hours in cool weather to cast their ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Many of the abstentions and 'no' votes were cast by member states that said they are opposed to resolutions that single out specific countries for censure.

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

The actress,who was nominated for an Oscar for the 2003 feature film House of Sand and Fog, thanked her family, and the cast and crew of the four-episode series.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

The lineup for "We Are The World" included producer Quincy Jones, composers Lionel Richie and the late Michael Jackson, and an all-star cast of pop, rock and R&B stars named USA For Africa, featuring 21 soloists and another 22 members of the chorus.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Since all 40 Republicans were on record as opposing the bill, the Democrats did not have a single vote to spare, needing every Democrat and Independent who normally votes with Democrats to cast their votes for it, or else have the vote dead before it ever reached the floor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23