Sentence examples for support for a motion from inspiring English sources

One of the 900 private investors at the Wembley Conference Centre brought a halt to the proceedings by winning support for a motion to adjourn the meeting.

Far-right and anti-EU MEPs got together on Tuesday to collect enough support for a motion of censure, which must be debated and voted on, possibly as soon asnext week.

Dreyfus was referring to Labor embarrassing the government on Wednesday by getting government support for a motion saying the government had failed to crack down on multinational tax avoidance.

The far left in the parliament, while refusing to make common cause with the extreme right, is also trying to drum up support for a motion but so far has failed to gather enough signatures.

Two reluctant Democratic senators, Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, warned that their support for a motion to open debate did not guarantee that they would ultimately vote for the bill.

In July that year he sought cross-party support for a motion that would postpone any deal on BSkyB until the criminal investigation into the News Of The World hacking scandal was complete; a day later, Murdoch withdrew his bid for BSkyB.

Based on this observation, we have estimated a transmission coefficient for the transfer and found no support for a concerted motion.

When measurement error is disregarded (treated as zero), there is little support for a Brownian motion model for any characters except minimum temperature (Table 2).

Labor has given notice that it will seek Senate support for an extraordinary motion calling on the governor general, Peter Cosgrove, to terminate the royal commission into trade unions because of the dispute over the commissioner, Dyson Heydon.

The SNP was openly loathed, blamed for ushering Thatcher into power after its support for a no-confidence motion precipitated the collapse of the James Callaghan administration in 1979.

The Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn has won support for an early day motion from the Tory Peter Bottomley and the Liberal Democrat Bob Russell.