Sentence examples for on a motion to go from inspiring English sources

It was on a motion to go to a vote on a Republican spending bill that would have kept the government open for another month.

Tensions are running so high that Boston's 6,500 public schoolteachers narrowly defeated a motion to go on strike on the first day of school.

Early Friday morning, Republicans on the committee pushed through a motion to go ahead with the vote, brushing aside calls from Democrats for an FBI investigation into Christine Blasey Ford's claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her something even the American Bar Association, which had formerly given the judge a stamp of approval, threw its support behind.

The House of Representatives just passed a motion to go into conference on the spending plan with the Senate, which had already halted business until later Tuesday.

Would Still Provide Multiple Chances to Filibuster Legislation: The Fix the SenateNow coalition has called for eliminating filibusters on the motion to proceed – a reform that along with eliminating the filibuster on multiple motions to go to conference would leave one opportunity to filibuster a bill during the legislative cycle, instead of the current four.

"The Senate must pass 3 separate motions to go to conference: (1) a motion to insist on its amendments or disagree with the House amendments; (2) a motion to request/agree to a conference; and (3) a motion to authorize the Chair to appoint conferees.

As the trial opened on Monday before Judge Jed S. Rakoff in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the defense, which last month lost a motion to dismiss the indictment on legal grounds, went on the offensive.

On Wednesday he plans to go through his pitching motion on flat ground, the last step before taking the mound.

It was Mr. Hurtz, an active member of the Hollywood Cartoonists Union, who made the motion in 1941 to go on strike against Disney.

By bowel motion we mean "to go for a poo".

Some were too scared to show up at so public a place, others were too distraught to go through the motions on a Thursday evening.