Sentence examples for motion to take from inspiring English sources

Last month Parliament approved a motion to take "all necessary steps" to keep the country's population below 70m.

Mr. Reid decided the last vote before recessing for the campaigns would be a procedural motion to take up Mr. Tester's bill.

It is equally true that there is, at present, no requirement at all to have a parliamentary vote on a substantive motion to take the country to war.

Microsoft filed the document with the Court of Appeals, while the Justice Department filed a motion to take the case directly to the Supreme Court.

The new bill cleared a procedural hurdle on Wednesday as the Senate voted, 62 to 33, to limit debate on a motion to take it up.

Under the current timetable, the Senate will vote Wednesday to cut off debate on a motion to take up the House bill and vote Thursday to actually take up the House bill.

The filibuster would be prohibited on motions to take up legislation or nominations and motions to take approved legislation to conference with House negotiators.

Under the proposed changes, the minority party in the Senate could no longer filibuster motions to take up bills for debate or to convene formal negotiations with the House on Senate-passed legislation.

Motions to take from the table, to discharge a committee, to accept the report of a committee, to rescind, to repeal, to annul, to expunge, and to permit a member to resume the floor after having been called to order for words spoken in debate are unclassified.

10.32am GMT 114th over: Australia 434-4 (Clarke 137, Watson 21) Elgar seemingly goes through the motions to take us to lunch, neither batsman troubled at all until Watson gets a rush of blood to the head and miscues a big drive that nevertheless clears the rope - and an unwitting Philander at long-off.

Your mum motions to take a picture, to preserve the moment forever.