Sentence examples for main motions from inspiring English sources

Motions may be classified as main motions, which introduce a proposition, or as secondary motions, which are designed to affect the main motion or its consideration.

Moreover, in the case of coronary angiograms we deal with local and nonlinear motions of tissues such as respiratory and cardiac motion while the main motions in peripheral and cerebral angiography are global rigid motions induced by patients.

He backed the main motion, not the unilateralist one.

The main motion calls for a key chunk of the bill (part 2) be thrown out.

A main motion is in order only when there is no other business before an assembly.

They will vote first on the Labour amendment (see 10.16am for the wording) and then on the main motion to give the bill a second reading.

And the main motion (plus another minor amendment, saying that the extension of free schools and academies would increase the amount of discrimination on religious grounds) has been carried overwhelmingly.

"It was Tom Davis who taught me to vote yes on the amendment and no on the main motion so I could be on both sides of the issue," one Democrat who likes him told me with professional admiration.

The main motion proposed sending a letter to Rupert Murdoch protesting at our mass suspension, which was a direct breach of the disputes procedure he had signed up to when he bought the paper.

A truer account goes as follows – the party's elected conference committee, as it normally does, met a fortnight before the conference to decide the amendments to be selected for debate alongside the main motion on the economy that was supportive of the current economic course.

The main motion says that Lib Dems should end what's called "continuous at-sea deterrence" (which means having four submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles, so that one can be on patrol all time) and that instead there should be no more than three submarines.