Sentence examples for achieved a quorum from inspiring English sources
On February 13, the Kentucky House achieved a quorum, and the Senate did so the following day.
Officially, the Congress of the Confederacy lasted until March of 1789, but the Tenth Congress never achieved a quorum, because by that point the Constitution had been ratified and would take effect in March of 1789, so nobody was paying any attention to the old caretaker Congress.
Have the leader of the meeting start the minutes by observing whether the board has achieved a quorum.
That number is 138, assuming that the assembly achieves a quorum.
Failure to achieve a quorum would be one way to prevent Parliament from acting.
Seven-tenths of the assembly must be present to achieve a quorum.
Several politicians said an obstacle to Parliament's approval would be its failure to achieve a quorum, a chronic failing — especially if lawmakers immediately left for Saudi Arabia on the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Their refusal to return earlier in the week prevented Republicans from achieving a quorum, which thwarted a vote on the redistricting plan that could have shifted several Congressional seats to Republican control.
He failed to achieve a quorum in parliament needed to impose a state of emergency or the numbers to ask the US for air strikes and drone attacks against the advancing extremists.
During July and August the reinstated parliament twice tried to reconvene, but on each occasion failed to achieve a quorum as the majority of MPs boycotted the sessions.
The failure of the parliament to achieve a quorum says much about the fragmented state of Iraqi politics, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from Kurdish-run Irbil.
