viva voce
Example Sentences
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Per the viva voce system, a practice with roots in Ancient Greece, eligible voters would call out the names of their preferred candidates to a government clerk, who registered votes in a pollbook.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018
In his last Facebook post, Krishnan referred to this new rule: “There is no equality in MPhil/PhD admission, there is no equality in viva voce – there is only denial of equality.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2017
In the 19th-century viva voce system, people went to local polling places and swore an oath that they were voting in good faith.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2016
Both campaigns have used this viva voce style of advertising in this cycle.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2016
He was interrupted by the footsteps of a new arrival—a boy called Curry this time—with an official document from which he read us the information that we had just received viva voce.
From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia
