Word: voteless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expected to offer a bill to set up a national council of blacks and whites that would advise him on social and political matters. Though the council's recommendations would not be legally binding, its creation was supposed to be a conciliatory gesture to the country's 24 million voteless blacks. As it turned out, the government was not ready to offer such a bill, and there was speculation that Botha had decided not to do so until he received private assurances from black leaders that they would be willing to serve on the council. So far, apparently none have...
Anti-apartheid leaders complained that the reforms, while welcome, do not address the demands of South Africa's 24 million voteless Blacks for a share of political power...
...voteless pay raise was part of a carrot-and-stick deal carefully engineered by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. With justification-the Peterson Commission cited the need for such raises early this year-he figured that members of Congress deserved their first significant salary increase since 1969 to try to catch up with inflation. But he was convinced the raise would have been voted down if each legislator had been forced to take a public stand on it. So O'Neill pledged to link the pay raise with something he felt Congress needed even more: a code...
...Constance goes to prison under an assumed name-in order to be treated like her commoner sisters-she no longer seems a historical figure but a flesh-and-blood participant in that sad, violent, wholly romanticized period mislabeled the good old days, when men were men and women were voteless...
Despite the new law, however, thousands of citizens abroad are going to remain voteless. While 33 states make it relatively easy for such citizens to cast their ballots, many others have made the process discouraging. Among other things, they have announced that voters working in foreign countries could be liable for state income taxes. Now U.S. embassies and consulates abroad are fielding hundreds of bewildered and often bitter inquiries...