First-session Sentence Examples

Quinn and Howie retreated downstairs to prepare for our first session of the day, with everyone pretending it was a normal Monday.

Lucas brought in a bill in his first session to effect this reform, but was defeated on the motion to have the bill sent to England for approval by the privy council; and he insisted upon the independent.

The first session of the general assembly took place here in 1854.

Four years later, when the legislature held its first session here, the settlement was incorporated as the Borough of Columbus.

The first session was tumultuous; party feeling ran high, and scurrilous and vulgar epithets were bandied to and fro.

The most far-reaching of these reforms, carried in the first session of the third Duma, was the partial abolition of the communal and family ownership of land, which involved the establishment of a class of true peasant-proprietors.

For example, Michigan, in 1837, in the first session of its state legislature, made plans for the construction of 557 miles of railway under the direct control of the state, and the governor was authorized to issue bonds for the purpose.

The first session was held on the 10th of September 1792.

The Convention held its first session in a hall of the Tuileries, then it sat in the hall of Manege, and finally from the 10th of May 1793 in that of the Spectacles (or Machines), an immense hall in which the deputies were but loosely scattered.

To prevent undergound intrigues, Bestuzhev now proposed the erection of a council of ministers, to settle all important affairs, and at its first session (14th-30th of March) an alliance with Austria, France and Poland against Frederick II.

A proposal was annexed to the proces-verbal of the final sitting, and the president closed the first session of the conference on the 25th of June 1898 with the expression of a hope that the delegates would soon reassemble.

At its first session the assembly passed an act declaratory of the rights and privileges of the people, and much like the charter of liberties and privileges enacted in 1683, except that annual instead of triennial sessions of the assembly were now requested and, as was also provided in Sloughter's commission and instructions, religious liberty was denied to Roman Catholics.

The report on the congress of Panama, the leading measure of the first session of the Nineteenth Congress, was drawn up by Everett, although he was the youngest member of the committee and had just entered Congress.

The first session at Florence and the seventeenth of the union council took place on the 26th of February 1439; there ensued long debates and negotiations on the filioque, in which Markos Eugenikos, archbishop of Ephesus, spoke for the irreconcilables; but the Greeks under the leadership of Bessarion, archbishop of Nicaea, and Isidor, metropolitan of Kiev, at length made a declaration on the filioque (4th of June), to which all save Markos Eugenikos subscribed.

He is elected by the House of Representatives at its first session for the whole Congress, and his election is regularly carried by a strict party vote.

The first session of parliament was opened on the 8th of November, but adjourned on the 21st of December till the 12th of March 1868, chiefly on account of the fact that members of the Dominion parliament were allowed, in Ontario and Quebec, to hold seats in the local legislatures, so that it was difficult for the different bodies to be in session simultaneously.

His leadership of the House of Commons in the first session of the new parliament was marked by considerable firmness in the suppression of obstruction, but there was a slight revival of the criticisms which had been current in 1896.

At the end of the first session he resigned his seat.

The Indian National Congress (see 14.417), which held its first session at Bombay in 1885, owes its existence to his exertions.

On the 4th of November the first session of the Union Parliament was opened by the duke of Connaught.

An ardent republican, it was he who in the first session of the National Convention (September 21, 1792) proposed the motion for the abolition of the kingship, in a speech in which occurred the memorable phrase that "kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural."

He was a nephew of James Otis, and the son of Samuel Allyne Otis (1740-1814), who was a member of the Confederation Congress in 1787-1788 and secretary of the United States Senate from its first session in 1789 until his death.

The first session of the Aberdeen administration will be chiefly recollected for the remarkable budget which Gladstone brought forward.

In 1907 the first session of the first parliament elected under the constitution granting the colony self-government was held in Bloemfontein.

Chelsea Chelsea's excited group had refreshments and football Easter eggs for their first session.

The first session saw the squad pound out the miles and burn their thigh muscles on the excruciatingly painful sand dunes.

He had been included in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet, and as minister for education he was responsible for the education bill which was the chief government measure in their first session.

It's important to note that each mediator has his own way of conducting the procedure, which he should disclose to both parties during the first session.

The first session gives both parties a neutral platform to discuss why they're seeking peaceful divorce mediation.

Innotek states in their operating guide that pet owners should monitor their dog during the first session with the collar and expect their dog to go through multiple sessions before learning not to bark.

Your first session will be a mixed bag of activities.

Typically the first past life you uncover won't unfold completely the first session.

Here's what to expect in your first session.

It's completely reasonable to be nervous or anxious before your first session.

At the end of the first session Diddy decided that he didn't have enough talent on board to form a band and kept only three of the hundreds of girls who auditioned.