Sentence examples for move a motion from inspiring English sources

On Thursday it sought to move a motion against him in the House of Representatives.

Mr Martin refused to collaborate with Mr Layton's initial plan to move a motion requesting the government to dissolve parliament after the Christmas break on January 4th.

Labor attempted to move a motion of no confidence in Brough, but the motion was shot down by government MPs, who gagged the debate.

If I am re-elected, I intend to move a motion to re-establish the inquiry in the first week of the new parliament.

If it gains an absolute majority the opposition leader, Tony Abbott, would be given the opportunity to move a motion of no confidence.

He says he has always been in favour of "the power of initiation", a procedure that allowed a backbencher to stand up and move a motion for debate.

Led by John Gorton, the commonwealth parliament moved a motion to decriminalise homosexual acts in the mid-1970s.

Kuzwayo was present in 1936 when Mina Soga moved a motion to found the National Council of African Women.

The year before he had moved a motion at the autumn conference supporting a royal commission on drug laws.

The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, is not ruling out moving a motion of no confidence in the Speaker.

Shorten unsuccessfully moved a motion to suspend question time to censure the prime minister "for breaking his promises".