Sentence examples for put a motion from inspiring English sources

The prime minister of such a government could put a motion before the Commons calling for a general election.

In California, you can put a motion on the ballot to throw out ("recall") an elected official if 12% of the electorate asks for it.

Any company receiving 25% or more of no votes from eligible shareholders at two consecutive meetings must put a motion to shareholders to spill the board.

The NUJ intends to put a motion to Highfield and Richardson on Friday calling for assurances about the future of Scotsman Publications.

The way you kill it is you put a motion down referring it to a select committee not a bill committee.

If May wants a general election, the Fixed Term Parliament Act allows her to put a motion to parliament calling for one, which would require the backing of two-thirds of MPs for it to succeed.

Politicians from across the spectrum have welcomed the 10 10 campaign, with the Conservative party pledging their frontbench would sign up, and the Lib Dems putting a motion before their autumn conference for the party to cut its emissions by 10%.

"Or by using a flashlight from your car when you come home at night, or putting a motion detector on your porch light, you don't have to leave an outside light on for hours while you're away".

"I made one phone call to the leader of the BNP before the council meeting out of courtesy to tell him that we were putting a motion to the council.

"We are putting a motion to our party conference that will move us beyond the sterile Plan A versus Plan B debate and on to distinct liberal territory.

"But when you put a video motion detector component in the system, you only record when something is moving".