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Generally speaking, a motion is an oral application, as opposed to a petition, which is written.

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Generally speaking, a 2255 motion must be filed within a year after the appeal is decided.

Generally speaking, a grandparent cannot file a motion for visitation when both parents of a grandchild are still married.

In a 1946 debate he spoke against a motion that declared, "Hunting is the pursuit of the uneatable by the unspeakable".

News outlets of all stripes, from the BBC to the Daily Mail, the Telegraph and the Guardian all led with allegations that she once spoke against a motion that would condemn Isis and its activities.

In his Principles of Philosophy of 1644, Descartes had distinguished between the "ordinary" and the "proper" view of motion: whereas the ordinary view presents motion as a body's change of place, the philosopher knows that properly speaking, motion is a body's change of relations to the bodies that surround it (recall Descartes's plenum).

At the debate, one member recalls: "A barrister speaking against the motion [to admit women] said: 'Every now and then I ask my wife for leave to have a night out at the Garrick with the chaps.

As Ms. Huffman began speaking on her motion, Alexis Herman, the other committee co-chair, committed a minor error of parliamentary procedure.

David Zinczenko, the senior vice-president and editor-in-chief of Men's Health, was speaking against the motion.

Alan Johnson, speaking for the motion, earned approving murmurs with the sardonic regret that he lacked "the certainty of finger-jabbing representatives of the 'new politics'".

The Respect party MP for Bradford West – a vocal critic of Israel and its treatment of Palestinian people – had been taking part in the debate at Christ Church college, speaking for the motion that "Israel should withdraw immediately from the West Bank", when he learned that Eylon Aslan-Levy, a student opposing it, was Israeli.

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