Sentence examples for a motion to pass from inspiring English sources

Spitzer got up onstage and reviewed the DSM process and what they were trying to accomplish, and there was a motion to pass it.

The bylaws state, however, that "a motion to pass has to be voted yea by a majority of those board members present".

The House of Representatives just passed a motion to go into conference on the spending plan with the Senate, which had already halted business until later Tuesday.

As Klein mentions in the Guardian version of her piece, there's a major push on UK higher education planned by People and Planet this summer, and University College London Union has already passed a motion to go "fossil free".

Under pressure from the United States, the Turkish parliament has passed a motion to authorise the use of force.

A motion to censure Giddings passed, 125 to 69, in a vote that split along sectional, not party, lines.

A motion to censure McCarthy passed 67-22, and the junior senator from Wisconsin was finished.

Thus our co-founders, Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig, called on conference to pass a motion to adopt a seventh goal on health.

"It is good for Yorkshire, but in the first meeting of the Shadow Cabinet they are not going to pass a motion to relocate Parliament to Yorkshire, or abolish Lancashire".

The support of at least 10percentt of all P&O Princess shareholders, and at least half of those represented at the meeting, would be needed to pass a motion to adjourn.

Pinckney and King tried to pass a motion to table the discussion, but that failed, and the matter went to a vote on the question, "Shall the executive be removable on impeachments?" Every state delegation except those of South Carolina and Massachusetts voted "aye".