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
At the end of the waiting-room there are two little apartments, each containing one table and a chair; there the "originals" are examined in topography, viva voce, one at a time.
From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by George Dilnot
