That's why, even though Kazakhstan has proposed its central banker Grigory Marchenko to be the next managing director of the IMF, the country won't be able to cast a vote for him.

正因为如此，即使哈萨克斯坦提议由其央行行长马尔·琴科(Grigory Marchenko)担任IMF下任总裁，该国却无法投他一票。

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He came to the meeting and cast a loud aye vote for our resolution, after telling the committee how many Alabama working people, black and white, had been hurt by the new disability rules.

他来到会议室，向委员会讲述了亚拉巴马州有很多劳动人民，不管是黑人还是白人，都被伤残补助新规定造成了不良影响，然后投下了极有影响力的一票。

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"All addictions are imprisonments for the soul," according to Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who made a rare intervention to cast his vote in the Lords against the plan.

根据坎特伯雷大主教罗旺•威廉姆斯的观点，“所有的沉迷都是精神的枷锁”，他以极出乎寻常的干涉在上议院对计划投了他的反对票。

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"I've decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Since all 40 Republicans were on record as opposing the bill, the Democrats did not have a single vote to spare, needing every Democrat and Independent who normally votes with Democrats to cast their votes for it, or else have the vote dead before it ever reached the floor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

The controversial IPO is in the hands of the shareholders who are planning to cast a vote by March 26th.

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Rep. Julia Carson, D-Indiana, was unable to cast a vote for herself because of a problem with the machine she was using.

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It is simply because the person is the smallest unit for which it is possible to cast a vote for holding public office.

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