单词 | voting process |
释义 | > as lemmasvoting process a. General use as a modifier, as in voting place, voting process, voting reform. ΚΠ 1630 G. Hakewill tr. Prudentius in Apologie (ed. 2) iv. i. 293 With Scythicke piety their aged Sier Let striplings tumble from the voting bridge [L. votivo de ponte]. 1649 F. Philipps King Charles I viii. 58 The voting-house, or place of bandying aies or noes. 1729 R. Bundy in tr. F. Catrou & P.-J. Rouillé Rom. Hist. II. xix. 49 Before the Centuries enter into the Voting-Place, he makes an Harangue to them, wherein he represents the Necessity of chusing able Generals in so perilous a Season. 1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 6 Saeptum was originally any inclosure, whence the Saepta or voting-place of the tribes at Rome. 1877 Denver (Colorado) Daily Tribune 10 Feb. Do we give her a voice in voting reforms, as essential to her welfare and happiness as others? 1911 Irish Times 25 Apr. 8/4 The simplicity of the voting process was demonstrated..by the fact that only four out of 580 papers were not correctly marked. 2013 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 51 653 One of the most striking voting patterns in many African elections is the marked difference between urban and rural voters in their willingness to support the incumbent. < as lemmas |
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