Examples
“Socialist propaganda so attractive -- eliminating whatever may give offense to bourgeois sensibilities -- that it serves as a bait for votes rather than as a means of education, and _votes thus secured do not properly belong to us and do injustice to our Party as well as those who cast them_ ....”
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
“But fome days afterwards, in proceeding upon votes in the fecond hundred, they came to the following refolution, viz. 1 bat the value of 4 frcchold in right of which the owner votes* is tbt rent which a tenant would give for it; and ml what the owner, occupying it himfelf may foffiMj acquire from it *.”
“Her branding, after all, is as the sensible end of the Unionist spectrum, with the ability to gain votes from the entire population.”
“Jimmy T was down on the beach, using personal paranoia to try and win votes from the women.”
“She is too polarizing to pull in votes from the center.”
“The only way anybody gets ahead in votes is to keep a close close close eye on that ballot box.”
“You can see the administration influence with the difference between the Governor and Senate election - George Allen not only picked up percentage over Jerry Kilgore - but he won the raw increase in votes from the Governor's election by a 2,948-2,280, which was a rarity in any of these Fairfax County districts.”
“The slight difference in votes is presumably because a few people could not bring themselves to vote for any constituency candidate.”
“Unlike Bud Light, which seeks to maximize its public appeal, political campaigns can afford to alienate the more sensitive members of the electorate and are perfectly happy to drive down turnout — as long as they win votes from a plurality of those who do show up.”
“I think the increase in votes is going to help us carry this state fairly easily, easily enough that I hope we won't have any recounts" or other reasons to re-examine the votes, the Democratic governor said.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘votes’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...grow, greatest country, greatest, grow the economy, great nation, great decisions, great, government, great NATIONAL su..., good times, good job, good and generous... and 751 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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Stuffie: Heave-Ho!
Stuffie #3. Stuff you pull.
wagon, leg, finger, door, prank, taffy, heist, stunt, lever, plunger, draught, plug and 46 more...
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