Sentence examples for a procedural debate from inspiring English sources

Despite the layoffs just days before, the first 25 minutes were devoted to a procedural debate about the night's agenda, with frequent mentions of Robert's Rules of Order.

Albanese made a caustic remark during a procedural debate about people demonstrating their true character not when they were successful, but when they were unsuccessful.

In its backup for the ad, the Grimes campaign cites a July 12 , 2012 Washington Post story that says the Democratic plan for small-business tax breaks got caught up in a partisan "procedural debate over how and when the Senate should vote on a broader proposal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts that expire at the end of the year".

But one activist has complained that there is no opportunity to vote against Michael Gove's Ebacc proposal, and there was a mini procedural debate on changing standing orders to allow the debate to be extended.

Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.

However, I do not believe that participation in this procedural debate is absolutely essential in order to justify my submitting a written explanation of vote, because, as I have already mentioned, I did take part in the vote, and the procedural debate did not take place until after we were called to vote on the report by Mrs Magda Aelvoet.

Regardless, the procedural debate is likely to result in voting patterns that no pollster could predict.

Third, the bitter procedural debate when this bombshell dropped in the Senate on Wednesday brought into the open deeper political motivations behind this long-running fight.

The procedural debate took on importance in the view of observers here as the first di rect confrontation between Britain and the six Common Market countries in the cur rent phase of diplomatic activi ty.

With the early Knesset nearly exploding into vicious cycle of procedural debate, some tried valiantly to get it back on track.

I did not leave the part-session until after the vote on this point, and thus I did not take part in the subsequent procedural debate.