Even President Umaru Yar'Adua admitted "lapses and shortcomings" in the vote which brought him to power and promised to fix the flawed electoral system.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

Because even in the Clinton Administration, around 1997, after we refused to vote for the International Criminal Court.

因为即使在克林顿执政期间，大约在1997年左右，在我们拒绝,给国际刑事法庭投票之后。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I'm a drop in the bucket and, you know, well -- You might lose the vote.

我那一票只是沧海一粟-,你可能是少数派。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Brazil and Turkey were the two dissenters in the vote, while Lebanon abstained.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

In 1875 there's an amendment to the Constitution that essentially- voted by one vote,or approved by one vote, by the Assembly--that essentially transforms France into a Republic.

875年有个宪法修正案,本质上--,它在一次议会投票表决中,得到了支持--本质上把法国变成了共和国

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

In the vote Tuesday, New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission denied landmark status to the 19th century building that now occupies the site of the proposed 13-story, Commissioners ruled that the building, which is not within view of ground zero, lacks distinctive architectural or historic value.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Beatrice is also going to get one and a half of the votes in the middle, so this vote and half the Pierson guy's vote and, I've forgotten your name already, again?

比阿特丽斯同时会获得,中间一个半的选票,这个选票和皮尔逊学院小伙子选票的一半,我忘了你的名字了,请重复一下

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The vote was delayed in part because of the death of longtime Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Again, the elite in Britain were scared, because you've got all these Ranter groups and Levelers and people who believe that everybody ought to have the right to vote, whether they have property or not and people that believe in the right of women.

英国的精英们被吓得要死,英国当时有各种喧骚派团体,平均主义者以及民众,他们相信每个人都应该享有投票的权力,不论贫富,还有人认为妇女也应有投票权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Democrats in the Senate have lost their sixty-vote supermajority needed to block any effort by Republicans to kill legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

In particular, if the other candidate were to choose position 1, I would get a higher share of the vote choosing 2 than I would have done if I had chosen 3.

如果对手选择立场1,我选立场2会比选立场3,得到更多的票数

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Another way the state governments in the South acted against blacks was by refusing to give them the right to vote.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

The fact that I have one, you know, five hundred thousandth of the vote for one representative in congress is not the same thing as my having the ability to decide for myself how to use my property rights.

事实是，我只有一张选票，50万选民才票选出,一位国会议员,这与我能自己决定如何行使我的财产权,是两回事。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They passed a law saying no southerner could vote if he had taken part in the rebellion against the Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

And that's why I would've voted against the Constitution, I encouraged people to vote against the Constitution, and I know almost nobody, except professors in Paris and Lyon, who are for that Constitution that was defeated a year ago May twenty-ninth-- so,there.

这就是我为什么投票反对欧盟宪法条约,我鼓励人们投反对票,我知道除了那些巴黎和里昂的学究们,几乎没人支持,欧盟宪法条约,而他们在一年前的五月二十九日落败,就是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And it was commissioned by the National Woman's Party in nineteen twenty after women finally got the vote."

VOA: special.2010.01.27

He says American citizens living in the main resort areas of Mexico provide their own vote of confidence.

VOA: special.2011.06.13

He said women must have the right to vote in elections, and be permitted to hold political office.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

In California, the State Board of Education plans to vote on August second to accept or reject a new set of standards.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

So they do not have stars,either. Some of the territories, like Puerto Rico and Guam, may vote to become states in the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Abraham Lincoln did not receive a majority of the popular vote in the eighteen sixty election.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

McCarthy surprised experts by winning forty-two percent of the Democratic vote in the New Hampshire primary.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Bryan succeeded in getting seventeen Democrats and Populists in the Senate to vote for the treaty.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

In the final days before the vote, six of the seven remaining Republican senators let it be known that they would vote not guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Then he asked for Buchanan's help in getting one of the northern members of the court to vote with the five from the South.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

They will vote in November for the most part. But for now, we don't see the kind of ant-incumbent wave that many have been discussing."

VOA: special.2010.06.12

It is not known when it might come to a vote in the full House.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

That movement had helped women gain the right to vote in the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

The group Freedom House notes that in Kuwait,women have won the right to vote.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Cassatt also worked hard to support women's right to vote in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.12