Sentence examples for make a motion for from inspiring English sources

The defense could also make a motion for a mistrial.

He then seemed to allow a delegate to make a motion for a roll call vote.

One idea, according to a Democrat involved in the process, is to have New York delegates cast their votes and then have Mrs. Clinton make a motion for the hall to unanimously endorse Mr. Obama.

Virginians declared independence from Great Britain: they sent instructions to the Virginia delegates sitting in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to make a motion for American independence.

Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure permits the Government to make a motion for sentence reduction at any time, like, for example, in a few years when the public outrage over Madoff has passed.

If it is not the bus you want make a motion for the bus to keep going or step away from the curb or stop.

But the Raiders made a motion for him to be dismissed as soon as possible and the judge let the foreman go late in the morning.

Austin Campriello, a lawyer for Mr. Kozlowski, made a motion for a mistrial, saying Mr. Chalifoux's line of questioning was unfairly prejudicial and deliberately ignored directions by the court.

At day's end, after the prosecution rested and the jury left the courtroom, each defense lawyer made a motion for the judge to dismiss all charges in the case or throw out the more serious charges.

In court on Friday before the verdict, lawyers for Mr. Perelman made a motion for a directed verdict that would now have the judge set aside the jury verdict and find in favor of Mr. Perelman on grounds that no reasonable jury could do otherwise.

A brave county prosecutor made a motion for the justice to recuse himself last month after The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that, secretly and outrageously, the justice received free legal counsel for two years beginning in 2008 from the Wisconsin law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich, which represented the state in defending the law.