Sentence examples for drop the motion from inspiring English sources

He also said he was concerned that the team might splinter if Sprewell and Houston tried to shoulder the entire load and drop the motion offense Chaney had installed, in which every player is encouraged to shoot.

But Jindal was displeased, saying he would be dissatisfied with anything but the DOJ's decision to drop the motion entirely.

Downing Street was insisting that the prime minister, who persuaded Clegg to drop the programme motion to give him a chance to win over Tory colleagues, genuinely believes that he can persuade some of the more moderate rebels.

The government drops the programme motion on the bill, amid fears it might lose the vote in the face of Labour and backbench Conservative opposition in the Commons.

Prosecutor Neil Braithwaite had submitted a motion to drop the case after a jury had already been picked and a retrial scheduled for the two defendants.

The developments came in Suffolk County Court here, where the attorney general's representatives filed a motion to drop the original indictments against Mr. Tankleff "in the interests of justice".

Leaders of the State Troopers Fraternal Association, the troopers' union, released a statement this week saying they were heartened that Judge Andrew J. Smithson of State Superior Court was considering a motion to drop the charges.

The prosecutor in Verona earlier this year issued a motion to drop the spreading epidemics accusation for lack of evidence, but not the others, even though the statute of limitations had run out.

The key moment of Tuesday's events was the decision of the government to drop the vote on a "programme motion" - which would have set out a timetable for the Lords Reform Bill to get through the Commons.

Judge Smukler denied Labrie's motion to drop the felony charge.

On January 27 , 1990 U.S. District Judge Thomas Rutherford Brett dismissed seven of the nine claims before him, and on March 24, the plaintiffs filed a motion to drop the two remaining claims in hopes that the judge would reconsider the claims already dismissed.