"With the help of her razor-sharp humor and her don't-mess-with-me gavel strike, she can run a room like no one I've ever seen".
She is set to unveil her new two-year budget proposal on Feb. 4. When she addressed lawmakers on Wednesday, shortly after the opening gavel struck, Mrs. Rell didn't mince words about the work ahead.
"Bill introduction" and "adjournment" are in some sense physical processes that take place in the real world — a piece of paper is placed in a hopper, or a gavel is struck and people gather up their papers and leave the room.
Bond did not bother to secure a loan before bidding on the building at 68 St Georges Terrace, which became Bond HQ, waiting until the gavel had struck to ask McNab to nip down to the bank and secure the 10% deposit they needed to put down before the hour was up.
But party leaders said they need to be judicious about using new committee gavels to strike at Trump — knowing that their actions could energize an angry Republican base if they beat him up indiscriminately.
The Nigerian trade minister, Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, struck a gavel to announce that the W.T.O.
As the foreign minister struck the gavel, down in the media room there was a collective sigh, then applause and the odd "whoop".
Already, Mr. Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who will strike the gavel on Thursday to open the new year's first Congressional hearing on Enron, has been buffeted by criticism from both sides of the aisle for his stewardship of one of the many Congressional committees investigating Enron's spectacular fall.
Quite to the contrary, Puerto Rico and the FOMB have punted the bulk of the restructuring to a bankruptcy judge who, by the looks of it, will have to strike her gavel to resolve most creditor battles.
He shouldn't say, prior to the judge striking the gavel that ends her marriage, that she makes him drool.
While the adoption of Chase was proceeding and before the judge struck his gavel to officially declare Chase Alexander Thompson-wastton was his fathers' son, the trio of brothers were reunited with their mother.
