Sentence examples for a quorum for from inspiring English sources

Only eight members are needed to constitute a quorum for voting, which operates by a simple majority.

Setting a Quorum for Board Meetings Q We are an eight-apartment co-op that has eight board members.

One-fifth of this total, 6,000, was a quorum for certain important purposes, such as grants of citizenship.

While Republicans have a majority in the Senate, they are a vote short of a quorum for fiscal legislation.

A Senate committee recently approved three new members for the Federal Election Commission, which had been without a quorum for months.

Today, said Russell D. Hemenway, national director of the National Committee for an Effective Congress, "most of them very frankly have difficulty getting a quorum for an executive committee meeting".

"How many artists are given four and a half acres?" Although there were two consultant firms to guide the process, it did not take long for the jurors to make their own rules, including a quorum of 100percentt for deliberations.

Our bylaws require a quorum of five members for the board to take any action.

Several independent nonpartisan agencies interpret the law to call for a quorum of at least 120 members to be present to open the new assembly session and form a government.

Hanson and fellow One Nation senator Brian Burston told the Senate on Thursday in separate personal explanations they had missed the vote because they thought the division bells were ringing for a quorum, not for a vote on legislation.

It was our only chance to gather a quorum fit for such an announcement.