failed motion

Three years into his third term, the Centrist first cabinet Bondevik fell due to a failed motion of confidence.

A local convention was held, which nominated Charles McGleenan, a prominent supporter of the failed motion.

But while the lawyers spoke in abstract terms about long-ago interrogations, failed motions and suspicious evidence, the survivors provided painful, personal portraits of crime.

Despite their failed motions, Mr. Sachs and Mr. Hardy insisted yesterday that there was no division on the Kimeses' defense team.

They constitute an efficient and reliable security system: never a short in any circuit, never a failed motion detector, never a corroded magnetic contact-and never a false alarm.

In November 2008, Prime Minister Edward Natapei suspended him from the Vanua'aku Pati for signing a failed motion of no confidence against him.

Although the board went through its ritual series of failed motions for bigger and smaller increases, in the end the adopted resolutions closely followed the preliminary proposals the board issued last month.

The King Kleagle (chief recruiter) of the Maine Klan was the charismatic F. Eugene Farnsworth, a former barber, stage magician (or hypnotist, accounts differ), and failed motion picture studio owner.

Another example of strategic use of motions is moving to reconsider in order to "clinch" a decision on the primary motion and prevent its reconsideration later, since a failed motion to reconsider cannot be reconsidered without unanimous consent.

In the failed motion to proceed to consider the legislation, 50 Democrats voted in favor of opening debate on the legislation and 47 Republican Senators, joined by 3 Democratic Senators (Joseph Lieberman, Ben Nelson, and Mark Pryor) voted no.