The Areopagus, a court of justice where religious causes and murders were tried, was believed to have been instituted by her, and when both sides happened to have an equal number of votes she gave the casting-vote in favour of the accused. ❋ E.M. Berens (N/A)
"Though Jerningham has the casting-vote," added the Viscount. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
This council shall select its president, who shall have a casting-vote. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The Raad was exactly divided on the measure, and it was eventually lost by the casting-vote of the chairman. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The appointment, therefore, of Mr. Kock gave his Honour one half of the Executive, and the casting-vote which pertains to his office turned the scale in his favour. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Your influence is unequalled in the Court of Literature, and, above all, yours is the casting-vote of acquittal; an encouraging thought for me, who might well be uneasy otherwise at the extent of my hardihood. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1894)
But fancy the President speaking against me, though he has a casting-vote. ❋ Frank Harris (1893)
Then the question seemed to settle itself, as most of these woodland questions do, as if some silent force of Nature had the casting-vote. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)
Night, as he did unto Saul, forboding his tragical End (it matters not); as he intended to make his Escape out of the Swamp, he was shot through the Heart by an Indian of his own Nation, as is said, that had all this while kept himself in a Neutrality until this Time, but now had the casting-vote in his Power, by which he determined the Quarrel that had held so long in Suspense. ❋ Various (1885)
To a man so endowed, the casting-vote of some one whom he loves, and with whom he almost unconsciously sympathises, is sometimes necessary to produce action, to direct the faculties, to guide the overflowing flood of his thought into the mill-race of life's work. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Next, in politics, organise your strength, band together, and deliver the casting-vote where you can, and, where you can't, compel as good terms as possible. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Lydgate's ear had caught eagerly her mention of the living, and as soon as he could, he reopened the subject, seeing here a possibility of making amends for the casting-vote he had once given with an ill-satisfied conscience. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Damia, who on all occasions had the casting-vote, had quite other views for her granddaughter. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)
However, as she opined, this attachment could hardly lead to marriage, since Constantine was a zealous Christian and his family were immeasurably beneath that of Porphyrius in rank; and though he had distinguished himself greatly and risen to the grade of Prefect, Damia, who on all occasions had the casting-vote, had quite other views for her granddaughter. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)
How valuable is it to have among us a man who, standing apart from the conflicts of the herd, watches the principles that are at work, with a truly paternal love for what is human, and may be permanent; ready at the proper point to give his casting-vote to the cause of ❋ Ossoli, Margaret F (1851)
