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He conveniently failed to show up for the vote, since he could have been arrested immediately afterwards, and is now back on the run.

He said that if there was no request for the vote, or the US exercised its veto, then the Palestinians would go to the general assembly.

Pan said in his appeal for the vote, the results of which he said he would send to China's environment minister.

Such a deal would be difficult for Mr. Abdullah, experts said, given the temptation for him to condemn the vote as a fraud.

Jorma Ollila, its chairman, said he took the vote "very seriously" and promised to "reflect carefully" .

Until his appearance in the Chamber of Deputies for the vote, he had been invisible for a week.

Mr Carter, who's leading an observer mission during the vote which ended today, said it had been very orderly.

Employing quantum cryptography to transmit the vote from polling stations to central counting house is thus a bit of a publicity stunt.

With two weeks to go until the election, the polls showed me with a twenty-point lead, and 55 percent of the vote.

But he said the vote was a clear victory for the opposition.

Mr. Helms was a polariser: so much so, that he never won more than 55% of the vote in North Carolina.

"The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the state of Palestine, " he said before the vote.

The opposition says it will not back down from its demand for the president's resignation and a rerun of the vote.

They either had no property, yet still paid taxes on goods they bought, or their property did not meet the minimum required for the vote.

The vote on China currency was one of the last items on the congressional agenda before the midterm elections.

But word of his candidacy did not seem to set the straw poll on fire: he secured just under 4% of the vote that way.

After the vote, President Bush met with congressional leaders of both parties and said he was confident an agreement could be reached.

The nuclear pact with the United States was at the heart of the two-day debate that preceded the vote.

One of the deputies most critical of the project, Nguyen Minh Thuyet, said the vote was a watershed for the legislature.

Yes, we have a large number of educated Africans but it has nothing to do with the question of the vote.

"Well men, " said the chairman, "I shall now proceed to put the matter to the vote. Will all those in favour hold up the right hand? "

If Mr Bashir gets his way at the vote, he may be more inclined to let the south leave Sudan peacefully.

He said he was not told when elections will be held or when an anticipated election law governing the vote will be announced.

Palestinian leaders welcomed the vote, calling it a historic moment that returns to Palestinians some of their rights.

Mr. Karzai said he wants to press ahead with the vote, which would finally give him a clear majority, even if he runs unopposed.

He won with 70% of the vote, and now he is trying to live up to expectations.

Following the vote, Mr Obama said the budget deal was an "important first step" to ensure the US lived within its means.

But for the vote to be valid, a quorum of at least one-third of the voting rights of shares outstanding is required.

In January, the vote in favour of trying the field method was "as enthusiastic as you could get from a faculty, " says Mr Nohria, wryly.

Christina Aguilera for Rock the Vote. She's back in a moment, along with a woman who rocked her into the vote campaign. Don't go away.

The ex-communist Democratic Left is likely to win around a tenth of the vote and yearns to leave the political wilderness.

It has no editor. Its composition is determined by the vote of bloggers through the theblogpaper website.

The vote date of a ballot delivered by mail shall be the date on which the ballot was posted as evidenced by the postmark.

Just when we thought we had the matter nicely settled, in stormed Jack, claiming that the vote was irregular.

A trial in which he denies paying an underage prostitute to attend such a party resumed the day after the vote.

Until the vote, Comex members did not own any Nymex shares, which more than doubled last week after an initial public offering.

Two rallies by an anti-Putin coalition, to protest that the vote would be unfair, were broken up by police with truncheons.

But the logic of apartheid said that if the black majority were to be denied the vote, they must also be denied education.

For all that, however, the vote might yet lead to an inkling of political, social and economic change in a benighted country.

Some of the other Khans were sympathetic to the Sea Fox's dilemma, but in the end the vote was cast against the name change.

If no presidential candidate wins at least 50 percent of the vote a runoff election is to be held in three weeks.

With turnout likely to be low, and uncertainty over the vote for the far-right National Front, there could still be a surprise.

Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic would not cheat or betray the vote of the people.

Since the vote, the president-elect has focused on reassuring the country that she will provide continuity.

Although the vote was extended, power was still in the hands of the landed gentry and men of property. For many this did not go far enough.

I propose that the matter be put the vote at once.

Bulgaria's Ataka lives up to its name with verbal onslaughts against the country's Turks, and has taken 10% of the vote since 2005.

The vote was not perfect (state resources were apparently used to help the incumbent), but was probably Georgia's fairest yet.

At a rally in the island capital Malabo, President Obiang said he expects more than 97 percent of the vote this time around.

During the vote, I always put in a slip with ONE name on it, and by the end of my stay, it was usually a name of somebody I knew PERSONALLY.

In opinion polls before the vote, there was as much scepticism about its policy manifesto as there was about the LDP's.

The vote followed impassioned argument about whether or not the Bible forbids active homosexuality and left a number of delegates in tears.

In addition, as a former independent running for the small Green Party, Mr Mockus lacked a political machine to get out the vote.

Mr. Obama praised the vote on his top domestic priority, which came after a year-long political battle with Republicans.

The party won 13% of the vote, up from 8% at the general election, and took the governorships of two northern regions, Veneto and Piedmont.

Iran said the vote was fair and has made Britain the target of some of its fiercest rhetoric.

It was a real cliffhanger, as Bibi Netanyahu defeated Shimon Peres by less than 1 percent of the vote.

Spain's Socialists got over 40% of the vote and fell just a dozen votes short of a majority on their own.

They could be a large segment of the vote in a very small state and a very independent-minded state like New Hampshire.

He ordered an internal investigation into why the PA delayed the vote, although the decision is widely believed to have been his own.

I propose that the matter be put to the vote at once.

Supporters of Mr. Odinga claim the vote was rigged, and international observers have said the election was flawed.

But she only scored the 3rd place in the vote for "My Favorite Spring Festival Gala Program. "

The vote is likely to be very close, but media reports in Ireland Tuesday suggested the plan will be approved.

The runoff became necessary after the Zimbabwe Election Commission determined Tsvangirai did not get more than 50 percent of the vote.

And its previously cutting-edge get-out-the-vote machine looks rusty and antiquated next to Mr Obama's.

The vote had been seen as an indication of the strength of support within the Lib Dems not only for the policy but for the coalition itself.

Mobile users have been able to vote multiple times in a row, which is really screwing up the vote count.

Bob: Thanks for the vote of confidence Marcy! I really am trying to quit for good.

They have been diligent about fund-raising, they say, have campaigned assiduously and have organised elaborate get-out-the-vote operations.

But it is difficult to see the vote as a ringing endorsement of the new charter itself, let alone as a vindication of last September's coup.

Sunnis are a minority in Iraq, and many Sunni leaders say the country is not secure enough to hold the vote.

He raised the stakes by promising to resign if he did not win the vote on August 24th.

The vote on the latest round of austerity measures took place in the middle of a 48-hour general strike.

The vote by members of the bank's rate-setting committee, the Federal Open Market Committee, was unanimous.

To win the election on Sunday, one of the candidates must secure at least 50% of the vote.

In Indiana, historically a reliably Republican state, the vote was too close to call, NBC said.

The vote was triggered by deep political divisions over a controversial civilian nuclear deal with the United States.

In South Carolina, it was a massive get-out-the-vote effort.

There's a reason that both major political parties consider their 'get out the vote' efforts absolutely critical.

International election observers said the vote was clean and well organised.

His Party of the Regions took the biggest share of the vote, as it had in March 2006.

Nevertheless, a week after the vote, Cyprus joined the EU, as a divided island.

He could also go the longer route and let other sponsors collect signatures to put the vote on a November ballot.

They did not believe that poor men, or any women, let alone slaves, should have the vote.

The vote was unanimous and was immediately followed by applause in the General Assembly.

The vote came a day after Geithner endured hours of grilling over his failure to pay thousands of dollars in back taxes.

The head of the Election Complaints Commission said that would speed up the process and still give an accurate representation of the vote.

Close to half the vote is opposed to a sale, some is in favor, and some is still wavering.

Gazprom, Russia's gas giant, is already muttering belligerently that Ukraine may be unable to pay its gas bill after the vote.

The scandal-plagued 74-year-old said he was confident he would survive the vote.

Does anybody recall a knees-up to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1884 Reform Act, which extended the vote to a majority of adult males?

But the vote illustrated again the partisan nature of American politics.

Let's put the matter to the vote.

As soon as the vote was completed, the Congress formed itself into a committee of the whole to consider Jefferson's draft Declaration.

Two far-right parties did well in Austria's general election, taking 29% of the vote between them.

The vote was the first major test of the coalition government, led by the Conservative Party and Mr. Cameron, since it took office in May.

Reports from international observers have been almost universally optimistic, saying that so far the vote has been credible.

One of the candidates needs to secure more than half the vote to be elected president.

Thailand was the most popular destination with the British, scooping 25 percent of the vote.

the result of the vote is: nine votes in favor, two against and three abstentions. Therefore, the draft resolution was adopted.

Rival supporters, who clashed repeatedly in the lead-up to the vote, are divided largely along ethnic lines.

The vote hands the presidency to a man from a different generation and seen as a relative liberal among senior Kremlin officials.

After the vote, the company insisted that represented only a worst-case scenario.

He suffered an unexplained hip fracture shortly ahead of the vote, forcing him to campaign with a cane that became a trademark.

But a declining share of the vote for the National Front could undermine Mr Abdullah's authority and derail his economic reforms.

The vice presidential candidates were also working hard to get out the vote.

Al Franken, the Democrat senator, said the vote would decide "the most important free speech issue of our time" .

We have the best get-out-the-vote operation in modern American history.

As with aid, international reactions to Myanmar's election are likely to be as predictable as the vote itself.

Then, after all that, the lawmakers delayed the vote.

Perhaps most importantly, the vote shows that Venezuelan democracy has not been reduced to a mere fa? ade.

The vote in parliament on Monday will be a testy encounter with his own party on Britain's membership of the EU.

It follows a tense election campaign which descended into bitterness in the days leading up to the vote.

The obvious next step for MyBO is to serve as a get-out-the-vote engine in November.

The electoral commission, which took over a month to announce the results of the vote on March 29th, has yet to set a date for the run-off.

'Original thoughts that the vote will be held in January are out of the question, ' an IMF official said.

But no one seemed to mind, this was the vote many had waited decades to cast.

Your score will be calculate by all the vote of user who vote for your picture with my other application name "HOT BABES" .

But his party has grown toxic in London. The vote should be close.

But in the period before the vote, the populist, leftist president would be able to rule by decree.

The vote of confidence from the Health and Human Services Department adds impetus to all of the company's projects.

To oust Ms Merkel from the chancellorship in the next election, the SPD would have to win almost 40% of the vote.

Yes, yes, Rock the Vote came to me. I'd done some work with Declare Yourself at the last election, for the last election.

The vote was the focus of a last-minute onslaught from the US health insurance industry.

But the longer-term lesson of the vote is that Congress is tied up in knots, for institutional, ideological and financial reasons.

Hamburg's defeated school reform was a Green idea, as was the law making the vote binding.

As Azerbaijan prepares for parliamentary elections on 7 November, opposition bloggers are unhappy with the conduct of the vote so far.

If the vote number of two candidates are the same, these two candidates will enter the second stage of election together.

The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said Abdullah's decision to withdraw from the election would not affect the vote's legitimacy.

The breakdown of the vote suggests that Anthony Kennedy is replacing Sandra Day O'Connor as the court's swing vote.

Mr. Chavez dedicated the vote result to all of Venezuela's children, saying it was a victory for the future and for socialism.

To put the vote on the ballot the traditional way, Mr Brown needs a supermajority (two-thirds) in the legislature.

In terms of the share of the vote, the July poll actually gives the centre-right parties a slender majority of votes.

Mr Singh needs no reminding that though the vote is cast in his favour, a younger rival is at his back.

Goodluck Jonathan is set for election as Nigeria's president with almost double the vote of his main rival, partial results suggest.

Though the vote means Mr. Lewis will technically have more checks on his authority, some critics say that in practice, little could change.

The United States drafted the resolution, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice led the delegation during the vote.

Its precursor organisation grew into a nationwide network. In the 2004 elections it put this to good use, winning more than 7% of the vote.

But soon afterwards rolling official results, announced with unusual speed, showed him far behind with only a third of the vote.

The vote was triggered by eurosceptics who wanted the party to take a tougher line in opposing bail-outs for members of the eurozone.

Substance of a Speech intended to have been delivered on the Vote of Credit Bill, London, 1810.

The groups, including Hamas and Fatah-linked al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades , say their militants will not be armed during the vote.

The situation is still fluid though, and diplomats said there would be a lot of calls between world leaders before the vote.

Violence erupted in Minsk after Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the president of Belarus, was declared to have won re-election with 80% of the vote.

But the vote to eliminate the rule was close, with the two Republican commissioners making up the five-member SEC dissenting.

The three countries finally decided to attend the meeting, but insisted on speaking before the vote to register their opposition.

The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.

In East Timor all communication infrastructure was destroyed by Indonesian backed militia as they left the country after the vote.

was 'Intexticated', with 13 percent of the vote - meaning 'unable to concentrate while driving due to being distracted by texting'.

To be elected, they must win at least 10% of the vote in the province from which they are running.

He used "purple" as a reference to states where the vote could go for either the Republican or Democratic presidential candidate.

The vote will amount to a recommendation about whether the panel thinks the agency should approve the product.

Morgan Stanley put about $500 million of its own money into the fund but wasn't part of the vote.

After the vote, President Barack Obama indicated that he plans to bring a "substantial" number of troops home over the next 12 months.

Many of the punters appear to have come more for the free food and fun day out than for the vote itself.

And the polls, far from being wrong before the vote, were a better guide to public opinion than was the result itself.

Analysts say the biggest apparent election flaw was the boycott of the vote by ethnic Serbs in the north.

However, the vote by US lawmakers was the closest any chairman of America's central bank has ever come to not being reappointed.

After the riot in London, the vote of the prime minister decreased by10%.

Before the vote he received a fillip when two possible rivals, the foreign and transport ministers, decided not to run against him.

Each corporate member appoints an authorised representative to cast the vote on its behalf in an election.

That helps explain why some companies have already decided to give shareholders the vote.

Boycott of the vote means a breach of law. Are you ready to brave the consequences it is bound to breed?

The EU said the vote underlined "the will of the Afghan people to shape the future of their country" .

The effects of different mobilization patterns are an indirect function that reinforces the aforementioned determinants of the vote-choices.

The Commission said the African National Congress had won nearly 66 percent of the vote giving it 264 of parliament's 400 seats.

Realizing that they could not head off the vote on Thursday, Israel and the United States worked to contain the fallout from it.

Observers from the U. S. -based Carter Center and the Economic Community of West African States say the vote was largely free and fair.

American stockmarkets gave up gains built up in the hours before the vote.

Socialist parliamentarians broke out in applause after the vote went their way .

Mr Mills went into the vote in Tain with a lead of only about 23, 000 votes over his rival.

Withdrawing the vote from them only hammers home what they already believe: that normal social rules do not apply to them.

The vote appears to represent small, but significant, progress for quiet efforts by the U.

Mr Valls has become more popular among the French at large, but at the primary he looks set to win little more than 5% of the vote.

U. S. Embassy spokesman Adam Ereli told the Associated Press the vote was an "important and positive step. "

But people do vote and governments do change in India, and that means the vote of the average person does count.

that would be the vote of confidence that these economic cities are for real and aren't science fiction.

But hours after the end of voting the authorities declared that he had been re-elected with nearly 63 per cent of the vote.

The vote came just five days after the ailing 81-year-old president said he was retiring.

He was the surprise victor in a three-way primary in June, taking about 50% of the vote.

Nationwide the ID is tiny: in the last general election, in 2009, it got less than 1% of the vote, returning four MPs.

WHEN Jobbik, a Hungarian far-right party, took 15% of the vote in June's European election, it sent shudders across the continent.

Coe left such an indelible mark on the London bid that IOC president Jacques Rogge paid tribute to him following the vote announcement.

Canseco is hitting retirement homes and holding get-out-the-vote parties in areas where he has support.

Regardless of the vote, however, China didn't want to see foreign forces interfering in Libyan affairs.

Ministers brought forward the vote from Thursday to allow William Hague, who will be in Australia at the end of next week, to take part.

The vote will be under a system of proportional representation that lessens the likelihood of a landslide victory by any one party.

Among the leading organizations monitoring the vote is the Atlanta-based Carter Center.

As you can see from Listing 10, a roll is taken, and sufficient members for quorum are available for the vote.

Parties have yet to form a government since the vote and the country's political landscape remains uncertain.

When the result of the vote were announced the Prime Minister acknowledged defeat.

Chinese Ambassador Li Baodong said after the vote, China's support for this part of the resolution has serious difficulties.

The vote was of an advisory kind, and so has no force as legislation.

Qatar won the 2022 competition despite reports from the British media that its officials may have attempted to rig the vote.

He does not trust the vote as the principal mechanism through which one establishes popular will.

Allen has not conceded defeat, and his campaign says he will wait until a re-check of the vote counting is completed by local officials.

For improved security and transparency , we are running the vote on an external , independently controlled server .

The president used his weekly radio and Internet address to step up criticism of Senate Republicans working to delay the vote.

This time Gigi Ugulava, Tbilisi's mayor and a close ally of Mr Saakashvili, won a second term, with 55% of the vote.

It was now almost as big as the country's biggest party, the National Coalition Party, who garnered 20. 4 per cent of the vote.

Imagine that, power really rests with the people and change can be enacted when it is put to the vote with a majority outcome.

Usually the small parties collectively poll less than 5 per cent of the vote cast in national elections.

That war ended with the two thousand five Comprehensive Peace Accord, or CPA, which led to the vote in the south.

Indians show no obvious hankering to be censored, silenced or deprived of the vote.

Richard Nixon did not show his hand until February 1968, a mere nine months before the vote.

His supporters insisted before the vote that he would remain loyal to the party, whatever the outcome.

Tobacco companies worldwide are following the vote closely as they believe it will influence how other regulators might proceed.

The bill's sponsors were making deals on the House floor right up until the time of the vote.

For those who were entitled to the vote, parliamentary elections could be turbulent and lively, sometimes even violent.

He noted that the Iranian government had said it would investigate "irregularities" with the vote.

Observers said these elections were the most exciting since the vote in 1994 that marked the end of apartheid.

Given the tightness of the vote, the ailing Democratic senator Ted Kennedy returned to Washington.

The vote, on a procedural point, does not bode well for the passage of thornier legislation.

Some civil-rights groups argue that without a federal leash, Southern racists would quickly deny the vote to many blacks.

The vote could be close, but -- rationally speaking -- investors should put personalities aside and vote down Huang's challenge.

As the vote in the House loomed , Beijing defiantly slapped steep tariffs on poultry from the United States .

Before the vote, Mrs Bachmann dismissed Mr Obama's warnings of dire consequences if the ceiling was not raised as a "scare tactic" .

Of course, the vote ended up being about 85 to 18, so there was no real danger to our democratic processes.

Just three weeks after the inauguration the vote marks a failure of Obama's expression of hope for a new era of bipartisan politics.

In the presidential election, Barack Obama won eighty-five percent of the vote in Chicago -- compared to fifty-three percent nationally.

Elections, in which the party usually wins around two-thirds of the vote, are seen as confirming that status.

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After only 1 percent of the vote had been counted, Univac correctly predicted an Eisenhower landslide.

With 90% of the vote counted, the governing African National Congress is heading for a decisive victory.

The Independence Party received about 24% of the vote and 16 seats in parliament, its worst showing in at least 45 years.

The Taliban said it was the first step in their campaign to disrupt the vote.

The presidential race continues to be close. It is not clear if or how Sandy will influence the vote.

Lambert Bahi Sery told VOA the leaders also encouraged the electoral commission to publish the voter register this week ahead of the vote.

I don't think we see eye to eye on this at all. Let's put it to the vote.

The vote on the Human Fertility and Embryology Bill comes at a difficult time for Brown, days before a critical by-election.

Had the vote gone against the EFSF, a financial-market meltdown might well have been the result.

But villagers warned that they would boycott the vote, if it did.

Survey results announced on the 12th, Paul received 30% of the vote, far more than other potential competitors within the party.

The general outcome of the vote was hardly a surprise.

Details of the vote, which closes this afternoon, will not be known until tomorrow.

During the vote to keep the community, where voters that their contact information, will have the opportunity to win a free of charge.

After the vote, the North Korea ambassador rejected the measure, and left the Security Council conference room.

These determine their share of the vote in the fund, and the contributions they are expected to make to it.

He says the vote clearly reflects the deep public desire to shift the country's balance of power.

The vote approving the amendment was far from unanimous ; six members dissented.

Thanks to everyone for voting in this poll and for the further suggestions in the comments to the vote.

No longer would judges oversee the vote, as they had done by time-honoured tradition.

The vote of each delegation will record in history its country's stand on anti-Semitic racism and anti- Judaism.

Eighty percent of the vote was the threshold for approval of the plan.

On a few occasions, the winning presidential candidate has won about 60 percent of the vote.

The vote on the bill, which will cut spending and increase taxes, came after violent demonstrations against the measures.

Even some members of the Clinton campaign's foreign policy team at the time privately disagreed with the vote.

either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.

The country's election commission set August 20 for the vote, so more U. S. troops will be available to help provide security.