Quorum Sentence Examples

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  • But enough members remained to give the legal quorum, and it was carried by 120 to 2 votes.

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  • Are there enough in attendance to constitute a quorum?

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  • Two-thirds of each house constitute a quorum to do business.

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  • A quorum of this meeting shall not be less than ten members.

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  • When a quorum, with some difficulty, was obtained, another period of retrograde legislation set in.

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  • Three and members must be present to constitute a quorum.

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  • The Board shall have a quorum of any five members.

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  • It requires a quorum of 25% of the census.

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  • Cannon, were adopted on the 14th of February 1890; they provided that every member must vote, unless pecuniarily interested in a measure, that members present and not voting may be counted for a quorum, and that no dilatory motion be entertained by the speaker.

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  • The quorum for the transaction of business of the Club Committee shall be three.

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  • The quorum for the meeting shall be five Elected Members.

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  • The quorum for the committee shall be three governors.

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  • The Senate would choose its own president, and the House of Representatives its speaker; each house would make its own rules of procedure; in each, one-third of the number of members would form a quorum; the members of each must take oath, or make affirmation of allegiance; and all alike would receive an allowance of £400 a year.

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  • Each tingslag has a court (hciradsratt), consisting of a judge and twelve unpaid assessors (namndeman), of whom seven form a quorum, elected by the people.

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  • Twelve Council members shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of Council.

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  • The required quorum for an AGM will thus be 25 or slightly over.

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  • The quorum of each committee is 3. Area Reps are eligible to serve on these committees.

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  • Furthermore, there must be at least a quorum of directors present at the meeting.

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  • Baker's personal life was soon thrust into the limelight, along with the mysterious goings-on at the Quorum Club.

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  • The Appeal Committee quorum is the Convener and secretary plus three academic staff drawn from the list of eligible nominees.

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  • These provisions are fairly standard and satisfactory with the sole exception of fixing the quorum as 13 members.

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  • Twenty members will form a quorum at any general meeting.

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  • However, the best way forward may more simply be to give the trustees the power from time to time to determine the quorum.

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  • Failure to achieve a quorum can, therefore, seriously disrupt the decision-making process of a charity.

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  • The required minimum quorum for Steering Group meetings will be 50% of the nominated group.

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  • At any AGM or SGM the necessary quorum shall be thirty members, either ordinary or honorary.

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  • There are 7 members on the Management Side and 9 members on the Teachers ' Side and the Sub-Committee determines its own quorum.

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  • Three members, two of whom must be ministers, form a quorum; a small number compared with the important business they may have to transact, but the right of appeal to a higher court is perhaps sufficient safeguard against abuse.

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  • The original idea was conceived by a Jesuit father, Heribert Rosweyde (see Hagiology), and was explained by him in a sort of prospectus, which he issued in 1607 under the title of Fasti sanctorum quorum vitae in Belgicis Bibliothecis manuscriptae.

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  • A quorum for this purpose shall be 35 members present.

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  • A Trustee shall not be counted in the quorum present in relation to a resolution on which he is not entitled to vote.

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  • Voting entitlement and quorum requirement shall be the same as for an AGM.

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  • He retired from the military as a Major and joined the Quorum of Twelve as a representative for Caprica (a position formerly held by Gaius Baltar).

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  • During Roslin's disappearance, the Quorum elected him interim President, a role he maintains as Roslin's illness runs its course.

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  • The law had to be declared and applied by the people itself in its communities, while the spokesmen of the people were neither democratic majorities nor individual experts, but a few leading men - the twelve eldest thanes or some similar quorum.

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  • Aqua Quorum also contains freesia, and is accented with oak moss, geranium an.. .

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  • In the United States the supreme court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices, any six of whom make a quorum.

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  • A majority of either house constitutes a quorum, but as regards ordinary bills, on the third reading, not only must they receive a majority of the quorum, but that majority must be at least two-fifths of the total membership of the house.

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  • The unusual provision that two-thirds of each house shall constitute a quorum would probably prove inconvenient, if the political parties were approximately equal in strength.

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  • The governor was chosen by the joint vote of the council and assembly; he was president of the council, with a casting vote; he was chancellor, captain-general and commander-in-chief of the militia; he had three members of the legislature to act as a privy-council; and he, with the council (of which seven formed a quorum), constituted " the Court of Appeals in the last resort in all causes of law, as heretofore," which, in addition, had " the power of granting pardons to criminals, after condemnation, in all cases of treason, felony or other offences."

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