Sentence examples for motion a number from inspiring English sources

More than 60 Conservatives have signed Tory MP David Nuttall's motion, a number of whom are expected to defy the three-line whip.

Mr. Comey said the requests by the reporter, Tom Robbins, set in motion "a number of things that led to the opening of our investigation".

In addition to the well-studied, dominant splitting of the mode frequencies, due to the first-order advection of internal wave motion, a number of second-order effects of rotation on the frequency splittings, predominantly the solar oblateness, are expected.

President Obama "has always taken climate change seriously, which is why he set in motion a number of things that have been very, very important," Lubchenco said.

Despite that caveat, transformation of Georgia's representational format set in motion a number of changes that have become magnified over time and have shaped the state's political environment".

The Agreements in Cancun set in motion a number of new rules and institutions that will likely form the backbone of the agreement in Paris (see Cancun and Durban agreements for more details).

Efros et al. [26] characterized the human motion within a spatio-temporal volume by a descriptor, which was based on computing the optical flow, projecting the motion onto a number of motion channels and blurring with a Gaussian.

Similarly, in this paper, the motion blur is described as a linear motion across a number of pixels in a single (horizontal or vertical) direction and therefore has an APSF distribution.

Nokia, Palm, Research in Motion and a number of other hand-set makers are fashioning ever more datacentric phones.

The motion cited a number of those activities, including off-balance-sheet investment pools, unsecured promises by related entities to backstop one another's claims, and reinsurance agreements meant "to portray a sound financial picture".

In Wednesday's parliamentary debate, I made clear that I couldn't support the motion for a number of reasons, not least that the prime minister decided upon her arbitrary March timetable without any input from parliament.