| 单词 | conscience vote |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconscience vote conscience vote n. a vote cast on the basis of conscience or principles, rather than pragmatism or party affiliation. ΚΠ 1846 Emancipator (Boston) 2 Dec. 128/1 The ‘conscience votes’ turned out but driblets And ‘Liberty’ is but the giblets Of our great squaking northern goose. 1876 Times 1 June 6/2 I want to have another Conference held and a third candidate nominated for whom we can at least have the satisfaction of throwing a conscience vote. 1960 New Eng. Q. 33 446 To the young politicians, both Mugwumps and like-minded Democrats, reform and progress could not be brought about by the mere withholding of a conscience vote. 2009 J. R. Parkinson in R. Geenens & R. Tinnevelt Does Truth Matter? viii. 111 Only on so-called ‘conscience’ votes, where the party has taken no line, do the MPs vote themselves, in which case the dramatic impact of crossing the floor does not apply anyway. < as lemmas |
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