Sentence examples for moving a motion from inspiring English sources

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

The Nick Xenophon Team will attempt to intensify pressure for reform of the donations and disclosure system by moving a motion in the Senate on Tuesday calling for a wide-ranging inquiry reporting by March.

"The Senate is declining to a new low of chicanery," Schumer said before moving a motion to adjourn until Monday, so that senators could have more time to consider the final bill.

"I will be moving a motion in the senate on Monday to demand the government release the research funding immediately, before any vote on the higher education bills," Carr said.

Some Senate Republicans are thinking about moving a motion of approval of the deal, believing it would put Democrats in a tough spot ahead of next year's elections.

Thus, when determining the purpose of a statutory provision, a judge can refer to relevant extrinsic materials such as the explanatory statement relating to the bill in which the provision appears and the speech made in Parliament by a minister moving a motion for the second reading of the bill, when circumstances call for it.

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.

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

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

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