vote of no confidence
noun phrase
: a formal vote by which the members of a legislature or similar deliberative body indicate that they no longer support a leader, government, etc.
The chairman was forced to resign after a vote of no confidence by the board of trustees.
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According to a Columbia Student News report, the University Senate held a special plenary on May 3 to discuss launching an investigative task force into the administration and a potential vote of no confidence against the president.
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Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 7 May 2024
Such a vote of no confidence could hardly have landed pleasantly with the remaining Paramount shareholders.
—Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2024
Members of the Mount Healthy Teachers Association issued a vote of no confidence in the district's superintendent and school board Tuesday evening.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 1 May 2024
The decisions to call in law enforcement, leading to hundreds of arrests nationwide, have prompted school faculty members at universities in California, Georgia and Texas to initiate or pass votes of no confidence in their leadership.
—CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024
The university president, defending his response as a legitimate action to maintain campus order, is facing a faculty vote of no confidence.
—Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
In a closed door meeting, Councilwoman Melissa Robinson, however, was unsuccessful in getting her colleagues to slap him with a vote of no confidence, and the controversy subsided.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2024
Since the president serves at the pleasure of the South African Parliament, in which ANC members hold a strong majority of seats, Ramaphosa and his allies could leverage this dissatisfaction into a credible threat of a vote of no confidence.
—Daniel De Kadt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2018
Robinson at the time urged the council to issue a vote of no confidence in Platt, but was unsuccessful.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2024
Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 7 May 2024
Such a vote of no confidence could hardly have landed pleasantly with the remaining Paramount shareholders.
—Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2024
Members of the Mount Healthy Teachers Association issued a vote of no confidence in the district's superintendent and school board Tuesday evening.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 1 May 2024
The decisions to call in law enforcement, leading to hundreds of arrests nationwide, have prompted school faculty members at universities in California, Georgia and Texas to initiate or pass votes of no confidence in their leadership.
—CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024
The university president, defending his response as a legitimate action to maintain campus order, is facing a faculty vote of no confidence.
—Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
In a closed door meeting, Councilwoman Melissa Robinson, however, was unsuccessful in getting her colleagues to slap him with a vote of no confidence, and the controversy subsided.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2024
Since the president serves at the pleasure of the South African Parliament, in which ANC members hold a strong majority of seats, Ramaphosa and his allies could leverage this dissatisfaction into a credible threat of a vote of no confidence.
—Daniel De Kadt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2018
Robinson at the time urged the council to issue a vote of no confidence in Platt, but was unsuccessful.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2024
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