Sentence examples for a successful motion from inspiring English sources

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That would require a successful motion of no confidence.

Mr. Ford subsequently voted in favor of a successful motion striking down an order requiring him to return the money.

In 2014 Labour supported a successful motion, also backed by MPs of other parties, for Britain to recognise the Palestinian state.

In 2008, under pressure resulting from rising casualties in Afghanistan, he introduced a successful motion setting a firm withdrawal date for Canadian troops.

Lens.com cross-appeals the district court's award to 1-800 of its attorney fees in pursuing a successful motion to compel discovery.

That is because of the "hars[h] result" of that doctrine: Unlike a § 1404(a) motion, a successful motion under forum non conveniens requires dismissal of the case.

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Significantly, in April 2008, six Republican broke ranks to support a nearly successful motion to end the filibuster against the Democrats' "fix" legislation -- acknowledging, in effect, the political potency of the Ledbetter cause.

In Hollywood he wrote scripts, often with MacArthur, for a number of successful motion pictures, among them The Front Page (film version 1931), The Scoundrel (1935), Nothing Sacred (1937), Gunga Din (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), Spellbound (1945), and Notorious (1946).

He also produced a number of successful motion pictures (e.g., The Rising of the Moon, 1957; The Playboy of the Western World, 1962) and wrote and edited several books, including Four Days (1938), The Olympic Games (1976), and My Olympic Years (1983).

Theatre Magazine, reporting on "The Spencer Case," put it bluntly, asking in bold type, "Was Señora Spencer merely a blind for her husband?" At the time, Cosens Spencer was the proprietor of a string of successful motion picture theatres located in Brisbane, Toowoomba, and Newcastle.

We speak to Lawrence Webb, a Ukip councillor in Havering, east London, who tabled the first successful motion on a council declaring the UK would be better off outside of the EU; and to Sir Steve Bullock, mayor of Lewisham, south-east London, and one of 64 Labour council leaders to sign an open letter in the Times claiming that Brexit would harm almost every area of local authority work.

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