Sentence examples for won the motion from inspiring English sources

But the truth is that in March 1979, the Prime Minister could have won the motion of no confidence which, being lost by one vote, forced us to go to the polls.

In 1962 Fields won the Motion Picture Sound Editors' Golden Reel Award for the film El Cid (directed by Anthony Mann).

ABC Entertainment President Ted Harbert received the Television Showmanship Award, and "Forrest Gump" director Robert Zemeckis won the Motion Picture Showmanship Award on Friday during the 32nd Annual Publicists Guild of America Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel...

In the event we "won" the motion, but in real life reducing things to dichotomous choices is more difficult.

Tsipras is expected to win the motion, with officials telling the Guardian he would probably bring the Macedonia name-change accord to parliament immediately after.

Lawyers for Mandla Mandela now claim that the family exaggerated the extent of Mr Mandela's poor health in order to win the motion to move the graves.Bitter interfamily attacks have continued.

They ended up winning the motion to suppress the identification.

"After the weekend I fully expect my position to be shared (if it is not already) by the 12 "Labour rebels" so you cannot win the motion of no confidence.

After narrowly winning that vote, the government won the overall motion in favour of the EU justice and home affairs measures with only 36 MPs rebelling.

It also won the Golden Globe for motion picture drama, the top BAFTA prize and tied with "Gravity" for the Producers Guild of America Award.

Brashear won the fight and motioned as if he was dusting off his hands.