Sentence examples for muster a quorum from inspiring English sources
Amid the turmoil, the agency's directors canceled their monthly meeting for Monday, saying they were unable to muster a quorum.
The 249-member legislature has often been unable to muster a quorum to conduct its sessions since elections in 2004.
Either it will muster a quorum that will give it the means to stop the killing — if nothing else — in Syria, or else it won't.
Mr. Djindjic and his allies have failed several times in recent weeks to muster a quorum to debate key reformist legislation because so many legislators were absent.
Iraq's parliament might be able to thwart that particular power grab (it could not muster a quorum in today's first attempt).
The state's Civil Service Commission cannot muster a quorum due to vacancies, so as it waits for new members to be confirmed, the commission has postponed actions like ruling on a spate of proposed municipal layoffs.
In the past two weeks the Parliament has had difficulty mustering a quorum and rarely has had enough members in the chamber to vote on legislation.
More than 50 Democrats sneaked across the border to Oklahoma and camped out at a Holiday Inn so the State Legislature could not muster the quorum necessary to vote on a Congressional redistricting plan.
In a major embarrassment last month, the court could not muster the quorum of six justices needed to decide whether to hear a high-profile appeal brought by more than 50 companies that did business in apartheid-era South Africa.
On Wednesday a judge threw out an S.E.C. action against the accounting firm Ernst & Young because the S.E.C. could not muster the quorum of conflict-free commissioners required by law to bring its case; both Mr. Pitt and another Bush S.E.C. appointee had previously worked for Ernst & Young.
