1.   The episode illustrates beyond doubt that the majority voting rules of the Treaty of Rome have teeth.

2.   An article in The New York Times at the time cited the racial nature of the change in voting rules.

3.   As British colonies, they had devised their own voting rules, and they were loath to lose that authority.

4.   As British colonies, they had devised their own voting rules, and they were loathe to lose that authority.

5.   Absentee voting rules were ad hoc to the point of seeming almost whimsical.

6.   Cannon is not some bland clone from an accounting firm on hand to explain voting rules.

7.   Complicating anything McCain wants to do is talk of reforming voting rules.

8.   First off, voting rules have changed.

9.   In addition, the executives said, if Vodafone could acquire enough shares of Mannesmann it could overturn the voting rule.

10.   The low turnout was all the more notable because of the loose, come-one-come-all voting rules the government put in place.