Sentence Examples

  • Reed on the third ballot in the Republican caucus for speaker of the House.
  • In 1824, when the congressional caucus was fast becoming extinct, Crawford, being prepared to control it, insisted that it should be held, but of 216 Republicans only 66 attended; of these, 64 voted for Crawford.
  • The caucus, which is the natural corollary of the detachment, determines by majority the vote of the whole of the members of the party, independence of action being allowed on minor questions only.
  • In the interval there had been other questions on which he found himself at variance with Gladstonian Liberalism, for instance, as regards the Sudan and the Transvaal, nor was he inclined to stomach the claims of the Caucus or the Birmingham programme.
  • In 1891 Mills was a candidate in the Democratic caucus for Speaker of the house, but was defeated by Charles F.
 
» more...

Also Mentioned In

WORDS NEAR caucus IN THE THESAURUS