NOUN | a vote of confidence | votes of confidence | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Because the leadership of the minority government had made the vote on the budget vote a vote of confidence, the defeat of the Disraeli budget was a "vote of no confidence" in the minority government and meant its downfall.
- Chancellor Gerhard Schröder called a vote of confidence, tying it to his strategy on the war.
- The UDR was a crucial component of the majority that supported the Massimo D'Alema cabinet in October 1998, after the fall of the Romano Prodi's government which lost a vote of confidence.
- Neither the chancellor nor the Bundestag has the power to call elections, and the president can do so only if the chancellor so requests after losing a vote of confidence.
- At the 1923 election, the Conservatives had lost their majority, and when they lost a vote of confidence in the House in January 1924, King George V called on MacDonald to form a minority Labour government, with the tacit support of the Liberals under Asquith from the corner benches.
- On 23 March 1977, in a vote of confidence against the minority Labour government, Powell, along with a few other Ulster Unionists, abstained.
- The Council must resign if the National Assembly passes a vote of no confidence in the council or the Prime Minister or rejects a vote of confidence.
- that by what we are doing tonight we are giving a vote of confidence or congratulation to homosexuality.
- He then presents a government platform and must receive a vote of confidence from the Knesset to become prime minister.
- The new government won the parliamentary vote of confidence on 26 October 2001 (306:140 votes with one abstention).
- For instance South Africa and Botswana, unlike Commonwealth realms or parliamentary republics such as India, have a combined head of state and head of government but the President remains responsible to the lower house of parliament; it elects the President at the beginning of a new Parliament, or when there is a vacancy in the office, or when the sitting President is defeated on a vote of confidence.
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