Sentence examples for motion to instruct from inspiring English sources

But Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois, has not formally appointed the House conferees, and with no conferees there can be no motion to instruct them.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney, Lea Anne McBride, said Thursday that Mr. Cheney frequently met with members of Congress to discuss legislative issues, but she declined to characterize his stand on Mr. McCain's provision or the proposed motion to instruct House conferees.

Under the agreement, the government would be funded through Jan . 15 and the debt ceiling would be raised until Feb. 7. The Senate will take up a separate motion to instruct House and Senate negotiators to reach accord by Dec. 13 on a long-term blueprint for tax and spending policies over the next decade.

Senator Brownback now plans to bring a nonbinding motion to instruct the conferees to include his amendment.

"We can have a motion to instruct our conferees not to raise the debt limit by 51 votes, so I'm fine with going to conference".

"We moved off the bill and onto a vote on the Motion to Instruct.

And if a conference did not produce an agreement in 20 days, members could offer "motions to instruct" the committee that required debate and a vote, which the speaker could not use his usual powers to stop.

Stan Collender of Qorvis notes that House rules would have allowed Democrats to force votes on nonbinding but potentially embarrassing motions to instruct the conferees -- e.g., to agree to drop the House proposal to turn Medicare into a voucher program -- if no deal had been reached within 20 days.

My most memorable moment was when pro-se defendant KSM made an oral motion requesting the judge to instruct the guards to provide him with sufficient quantities of paper to enable him to file motions.

In this task, we used 2 cues; cue 1 to indicate visual motion and cue 2 to instruct whether to prepare for pursuit (i.e., "go") or not to pursue (i.e., "no-go").

Our results might provide a guide for dental professionals to instruct brushing motion.