Sentence examples for a motion approved from inspiring English sources

Earlier this month, LA councilman Paul Koretz had a motion approved that gave the city's department of water and power 30 days to recommend measures to curb excessive water use, up to and including shutting off supplies.

A motion approved at the board's monthly meeting urges the state's transportation agency to report to the board by late spring with an evaluation of the I-66 toll operations and its effect on commuter patterns to transit operations.

In a motion approved by the First Circuit Court of Appeals last week, Jason Harrow '11, a member of the defense team for Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum, was cleared to make oral argument on Tenenbaum's behalf.

The calls were made in a motion approved at Unison's annual conference in Brighton demanding the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with its capital in Jerusalem The resolution followed similar calls for pressure on Israel from British labor unions representing journalists and college teachers.

The goal, laid out in a motion approved last week by the council, is to develop city rules to make sure development doesn't box in wild animals that need to roam the mountains for food, mates and survival.

In a motion approved by the court, her lawyer, Gabriel J. Smith, said she was "deeply disturbed that the death of her son David, whom she deeply loved and with whom she had a good relationship, is being used by Plaintiff Paul Hard to advance the cause of same-sex marriage which she strongly opposes".

Leadsom, the leader of the Commons, told MPs that a motion approving the scheme would be on the order paper for approval by the house on Monday 28 January.

Merkel's authority as chancellor took a knock on Friday when 23 members of her coalition voted against a motion approving a two-year extension to Greece's aid programme, and the advance of €44bn of loans to Athens.

An annual conference of Mr. Mugabe's ZANU-PF party noted and adopted a motion approving the plan to move presidential polls from 2008 to 2010 so they could be "harmonized" and held at the same time as parliamentary elections.

In a vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, on October 16th, 17 Green deputies, more than a third of the parliamentary party, failed to back a motion approving German participation in possible NATO strikes against Serbia.

On March 10 1976 the Government was again defeated (by 284 votes to 256) on a motion approving its spending plans.