31.   Deputies subsequently voted down a motion to strengthen the resolution after its sponsor, Communist deputy Victor Ilyukhin, said he had been inundated with proposed amendments.

32.   Even if the committees vote down the proposals, any regent can then ask for a vote before the full board, making a final vote likely Thursday.

33.   Failing that, they should vote down the entire bill, as politically difficult as such a step might be in an election year.

34.   For starters, the burden would be on Congress, after a notification period, to vote down an arms sale -- something lawmakers rarely do.

35.   For the last four days, House Republicans have crushed Democratic objections to the bill and voted down Democratic amendments intended to liberalize the legislation.

36.   Goodyear union employees voted down two other tentative contracts before settling on the current package.

37.   He is considered unlikely to urge his followers to vote down a peace agreement if the alternative is the likelihood of violence.

38.   He added that a proposal to build houses in the Roxbury section was voted down more than a decade ago.

39.   He did not split with Senate Republicans when they voted down the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty last year.

40.   He said he did not think Senate Republicans were reacting out of dislike for him by voting down the treaty.