Synonym: choice, poll, vote. Antonym: abstain, abstention. Similar words: balloon, lot, ball, lots, slot, plot, balls, pilot. Meaning: ['bælət] n. 1. a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting 2. a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative. v. vote by ballot.
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121. In Gampola, a United National Party candidate said that when he went to vote, some one had already cast his ballot.
122. H.. Doing traffic engineering at the ballot box is fools' work.
123. In the 1994 statewide elections, voters decided nearly 150 ballot initiatives.
124. After a ballot earlier this year, the 3,000-strong workforce had planned to take indefinite strike action from August 21.
125. But the vote has been declared invalid because fewer than half the parents took part in the ballot.
126. The ballot came after determined efforts to lobby support for him.
127. Organizers need the valid signatures of 480, 000 voters by April 19 to qualify for the November ballot.
128. The secret ballot gave these students their first free opportunity to express opposition.
129. The question will appear on the ballot as Prop 107.
130. Perot organizers say the Reform Party candidate will be on the ballot in all 50 states.
131. Numerous studies of the results of ballot initiatives demonstrate the obvious: Money is a big factor in their outcome.
132. It was the last national convention that required more than a single ballot to nominate a presidential candidate.
133. Another major challenge could come next year should voters approve a statewide ballot initiative aimed at abolishing mobile-home rent control.
134. Worse luck on the voters who have to contend with the most challenging of ballot papers.
135. Can anyone think of a way of proposing amendments before the postal ballot without the wasted expense of additional mailings?
135. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
136. The one thing politicians care about more than anything else is the ballot box.
137. The Matiba faction demanded a direct secret ballot of all party members while Odinga insisted on an indirect method.
138. The last time the school district had a local bond measure on a ballot was in 1974.
139. They are determined to win power through the ballot box, not by violence.
140. But unions would be effectively debarred from holding a strike ballot in support of workers already sacked for taking part in unofficial strikes.
141. It was decided to hold a ballot of all party members.
142. The results of the ballot are likely to be released on the eve of June 7.
143. Texas state law does not allow for the substitution of an independent candidate once he has won a spot on the ballot.
144. A number of important social reforms have resulted from ballot bills such as abortion and divorce law reform.
145. City Clerk Kathy Detrick says her office is now accepting written arguments on the pro and con sides of the ballot props.
146. As in Ireland some voters would find the ballot paper confusing.
147. To get Perot on the ballot as an independent, it takes 61[sentencedict.com], 540 signatures gathered by May 13.
148. The elections are by secret ballot, and an absolute majority is required.
149. Each house as it was completed was allotted to a member either by ballot or auction.
150. The Bill to abolish the Scheme was meanwhile being rushed through Parliament, and a fresh ballot was needed for the strike.