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I'm reading a news on BBC and there's a sentence I can't understand its meaning:

Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, tried on Tuesday to stage a symbolic vote to support the findings of Russian interference, but was blocked by Republicans. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44870835)

Could you explain what the bold part means please?

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  • Just a personal opinion, but to me at least, the cited use of stage is relatively "marked", since in this exact context I'd normally expect force (or perhaps some more "neutral" term such as hold, get, organise). Using stage here carries strong connotations of "theatrics", as echoed a couple of lines further into the piece, where the proposed symbolic vote is described as just some messaging exercise.
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Jul 19, 2018 at 11:38
  • @FumbleFingers Thank you so much for detailed opinion, especially giving alternatives!
    – user
    Commented Jul 20, 2018 at 10:03

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to stage in the sense of:

  • to plan, organize, or carry out (an activity), especially for dramatic or public effect: Workers staged a one-day strike.

From Time:

  • In the House, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi staged a vote in support of the intelligence committee’s findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. But even that largely symbolic measure was blocked party-line by Republican
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  • You might want to add a [sic] after party-line. (I checked the article online to confirm that it was actually written that way—as opposed to along party lines.) Oh, and add an s. at the end of the quote. ;)
    – Jason Bassford
    Commented Jul 19, 2018 at 15:00
  • Thank you very much user070221 and @Jason Bassford! May I ask one more please? Does 'stage a vote' mean the same with 'vote on', 'take a vote on', or 'put sth to the vote?'
    – user
    Commented Jul 20, 2018 at 10:09

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