Clay answered that no power on earth could force him to vote to establish slavery where it did not exist.
VOA: special.2009.03.19
Now here's a question for you guys, which we're going to vote on, so you better start thinking about it.
现在我希望,大家来,判断一下。
Although that might cause concern for some people, forcing people to vote is definitely not the answer.
也许这会让一些人担忧,但是强迫人们去投票绝对不是解决问题的方法。
The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially active,to read,attend religious services and to vote.
VOA: special.2009.02.11
We're also going to assume, just as we did last time, that voters are going to vote for the closest candidate.
我们还要假设,像上次一样,选民会选择离他最近的候选人
President Buchanan had promised the people of Kansas that they would have a fair chance to vote on their constitution.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
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。
They said the constitutional convention had only given them the right to vote for limited slavery or unlimited slavery.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
I do not--I only want the men to vote, please.
我只想要男士投票。
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
Anybody want to vote? Pardon? All right, someone wants to remove MIT. Sad but true.
有人想投票么?嗯?好,有些人想移除MIT,节哀吧。
Harper took his band on the road last year as part of the effort to get young people to vote.
VOA: special.2009.05.08
They were very suspicious of the democratic tendencies, or so it seemed, the democratic tendencies of that northern society which was spreading literacy more widely, and eventually the right to vote more widely, at least among white people.
他们也对民主倾向表示怀疑,事实就是如此,有着民主倾向的北方社会,文化教育的开展更为广泛,因而更广大人民有着投票权,至少大部分白人有投票权
He said women must have the right to vote in elections, and be permitted to hold political office.
VOA: special.2009.05.24
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
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
I think that at least for many of us, there is a sort of logical conundrum we go through and that is, if good people don't vote then we'll be in a bad world; so I have to vote to prove that good people vote, then maybe it will happen.
我想,至少对大部分人来说,必须面对一个逻辑上的难题,就是,如果好人不投票,那我们将会生活在坏人操纵的世界里,所以我必须要投票,来证明好人会投票,那未来的国家将会由好人掌控
This use of government troops to end strikes caused many citizens to vote against the ruling Republican Party.
VOA: special.2010.06.10
They get to vote their policy convictions just like everybody else.
他们可以像其他任何人一样对各项政策投票。
Japan's parliament is expected to vote on September sixteenth to make Yukio Hatoyama the next prime minister.
VOA: special.2009.09.05
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
Seventy-two years later the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.
VOA: special.2009.03.13
I think if we force people to vote, it would not lead to a good result.
如果我们采取强制投票,结果也不会多好。
She also opposed legislation that would have made it harder for blacks and Latin Americans to vote.
VOA: special.2010.05.09
we have a homecoming queen that all the sororities and people get to vote on,
所有的联谊会与人们都能投票推选返校女王,
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
All right, let's try again. How many people vote that this is reversible? That looks like a majority to me. Irreversible?
好的,让我们再试试,有多少人认为这是可逆的?,看上去大多数人都这么认为?
The bill provided no way for the people of Kansas to vote on their own constitution.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
Also, if your patron wanted to run for a city office, your patron would expect you to be loyal and vote for him.
作为回报,如果庇护人要竞选官职,就会要求你投他一票。
Some of you-- some of the population of the United States are not going to vote for somebody because he or she is black but they won't tell you but they know it to be true.
你们有些人…,美国当中有些人,不会投某些人一票,因为她或他是黑人,但他们不会说出来,但他们很清楚这是他们的真实想法。
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