Passage of a motion requires a simple majority of a quorum, unless otherwise stated in these Bylaws.
Unison, the trade union for public sector workers, said the passage of the motion showed the Conservatives had lost the argument on public sector pay.
Several attempts were made to save the four who were sentenced to die, including passage of a motion in the legislative council of the United Provinces (the colonial precursor to Uttar Pradesh) and a petition to the British viceroy, but they were rejected.
The attack coincided with a meeting of the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at which Kim Jong-il, the son of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung, presented the incident as an example of American aggression, helping secure the passage of a motion calling for a U.S. withdrawal from the South.
Passages of slow motion snap into full speed with a sudden brightening of light.
The Democratic Party's introduction, and most likely passage, of a censure motion against Mr. Abe would be nonbinding.
The house speaker, Eduardo Cunha – a conservative evangelical who has proved Rousseff's nemesis – oversaw the passage of the impeachment motion comfortably with 367 votes, 25 more than the necessary two-thirds majority, prompting opposition politicians, many of them draped in the national flag, to burst into the football chant "Eu Sou Brasileiro" (I am Brazilian).
If the likes of McCain were threatening to continue debate indefinitely, ending debate requires the passage of a cloture motion, which itself needs to be passed by 60 out of the maximum 100 senators, meaning that the Democrats would need some Republican support.
Moore and Love objected to the manner in which this provision could be expected to pressure UFA MLAs to back government legislation that they might otherwise be inclined to oppose, and introduced a resolution in the Legislature that called for a policy by which the government would resign only upon passage of an explicit motion of no confidence.
It seems at best heroic, at worst hopeless, to try to understand passage as a kind of motion.
