Sentence examples for previous sitting from inspiring English sources

Yet while he ultimately raised more money from small donors in 2012 than he had during his historic 2008 campaign, Obama also attended more high-dollar fundraisers than any previous sitting president.

The minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting (PT) Mr President, I have a point of order.

Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting: see Minutes The Minutes for yesterday have been distributed.

(The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved) (DE) Mr President, I believe that Rule 140 is not applicable to the urgency procedure and I would therefore ask you to have this checked by the Committee on the Rules of Procedure, because it could set a dangerous precedent.

Ms. Niou and Ms. Biaggi had spent the previous night sitting on the floor of their empty study, discussing predatory loans.

Cohn: A lot of the candidates who win presidential nominations enter the race with a lot of pre-existing support — from past runs for president, from being a previous or sitting vice president.

Journalistically, it was a good story, about guys who had the most dangerous job in the world who spent their previous rotations sitting on a base in Kosovo and drinking beer.

Sure enough, on my first morning there, the story was doing the rounds that a ghostly boy had been sighted the previous night, sitting on some steps on the 14th floor.

The previous afternoon, sitting in her office at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the college where we both teach, Katchadourian told me that people new to the work often assume that she made "Monument to the Unelected" in response to this year's brutal and divisive Presidential race.

Wednesday's sold-out floodlit encounter in south London represents a chance for this rebooted group to claim a second home series victory in eight – a statistic that owes much to the dithering of the previous regime – sitting 1-0 up with two to play after Sunday's washout in Bristol prevented a chase of 249 after a third impressive performance on the bounce from the bowlers.