(v. t.) To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vote marks only the third time since he became governor in 2003 that King has been outvoted and the first time that none of the Bank's internal MPC members have voted with their boss.
(2) The problem is political: though home ownership is falling for the first time since 1918 and is expected to keep falling, the 64% who do own vastly outvote the rest – and they want never-ending rises to pay off frighteningly high mortgages and provide everything else a family needs.
(3) Briefing journalists at his office in The Hague, Rutte made it plain that he was sympathetic to much of the British case, but said there were two big problems – freezing benefits for east Europeans and successfully negotiating a new deal that would protect Britain from being outvoted by the 19 countries that use the euro.
(4) Nobody will be outvoted.” Wednesday’s summit focused on “Fortress Europe” measures to try to stem the flow of refugees and migrants.
(5) Outgoing governor, Sir Mervyn King, was again outvoted, with a majority of policymakers leaving the QE programme at £375bn.
(6) But Murdoch's company adopted a more defensive tone in responding to MPs' hostile description of its 81-year-old patriarch, noting that it considered the verdict "unjustified and highly partisan" because it was only agreed following a vote that saw Labour and the sole Liberal Democrat outvoting a Conservative bloc.
(7) In August, King and two other MPC members pushed for a bigger stimulus than the rest of the committee but were outvoted.
(8) But Murdoch's company adopted a more defensive tone in responding to the MPs' hostile description of its 81-year-old patriarch, noting that it considered the verdict "unjustified and highly partisan" because it was only agreed following a vote that saw five Labour MPs and the sole Liberal Democrat, Adrian Sanders, outvoting a Conservative bloc.
(9) Cameron's stop-Juncker campaign was further troubled when Merkel's anti-euro opponents, the AfD, were admitted to the Tory-led parliamentary grouping because the Conservatives were outvoted.
(10) There was talk of boycotts and threats to take the issue to court from the Czechs and Slovaks who were outvoted on Tuesday, while the EU’s most robust anti-immigration hardliner, Viktor Orban of Hungary, warned Chancellor Angela Merkel against any “moral imperialism” at the summit.
(11) The prime minister’s other key demands include giving non-eurozone members, such as the UK, protections to ensure they cannot be outvoted on the single market by eurozone members.
(12) Data passed to the Guardian shows that the Scottish Tories helped the Scottish National party outvote Labour in 40% of all the divisions during Salmond’s first term as first minister, from 2007 to 2011, when the SNP had a single-seat majority over Labour.
(13) The Czechs, Slovakians, Hungarians and Romanians are deeply indignant at being outvoted on one of the biggest, most toxic, issues in national politics in Europe.
(14) Markets were taken by surprise today when minutes of the latest meeting of the Bank's monetary policy committee showed that the governor, Mervyn King, had wanted to pump an extra £75bn into the financial system but was outvoted.
(15) But with 41% of shares held abroad and only 17% by pension funds, unseen forces outvote concerned shareholders at AGMs.
(16) Its Labour and Lib Dem members outvoted the Tories to include a line declaring Murdoch " not a fit and proper person" to run a major global company, and they have been squabbling ever since over who is to blame for their failure to come up with a conclusion upon which they could all agree.
(17) We are being outvoted ever more frequently,” Johnson wrote.
(18) The list, which is expected to be ratified before publication at a general meeting at 1.30pm on Friday, also called for: • An end to business and corporate block-votes in all council elections, which can be used to outvote local residents.
(19) In terms of pure equity, Mr Malone's company, Liberty Media, now holds 17% of News Corp, exceeding the Murdoch family's 14%, and if it chose to swap more of its stock for voting shares it could get to a point where it could outvote the Murdochs.
(20) Cue much handwaving by both Miles and Carney: It’s about this big..... 10.21am GMT Carney: outvoted over the output gap Carney then reveals that he would personally like to publish a measure of the output gap, but he couldn’t persuade the rest of the MPC.
Vote
Definition:
(n.) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
(n.) A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
(n.) That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.
(n.) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
(n.) Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
(v. i.) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
(v. t.) To choose by suffrage; to elec/; as, to vote a candidate into office.
(v. t.) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.
(v. t.) To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.
(v. t.) To condemn; to devote; to doom.
Example Sentences:
(1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(2) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(3) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(4) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(5) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(6) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(7) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(8) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(9) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(10) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(11) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(12) However, these votes will be vital for Hollande in the second round.
(13) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
(14) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
(15) Its restrictions are so strong that even many Republicans voted against it.
(16) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
(17) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
(18) If I don’t agree with the leadership of the party, I don’t vote for it.
(19) At the People’s Question Time in Pendle, an elderly man called Roland makes a short, powerful speech about the sacrifices made for the right to vote and says he’s worried for the future of the NHS.
(20) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.