quorate

A certain number of members must be present before a meeting is said to be quorate and can proceed.

X) following the decision of a quorate general meeting and must indicate acceptance of nomination.

The House had better be quorate indeed more than quorate or we risk having no budget.

As the government could never guarantee that all of its supporters would turn up, it became impossible to hold a quorate meeting of the parliament.

Though this meeting had not been quorate, Vesnić used this as a pretext to resign.

'We are quorate, nevertheless,' said Ridcully.

As Chairman of Ways and Means, you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, attempted to resolve the situation and eventually you made history in the House by deciding that the Committee would be quorate with just two members.

As the last staff committee elections were inquorate, we presumably do not have a staff committee and I think the Bureau needs to examine why there are members of staff on sabbatical leave when there is no quorate staff committee.

He had been cooking up his schemes for conquering the rock world for a frustratingly long time, and had such belief in himself that as soon as he had a quorate line-up, he just assumed the path was set.

The Commission recommended creating an "emergency interim court" of senior judges which could hear cases instead of the Supreme Court, with a right of appeal to the Supreme Court once the Supreme Court was quorate again.

Every week - every day - we are swamped with the results of silly, unnecessary studies from Universities of the Bleedin' Obvious, using the exhaustive data from scientifically quorate samples to tell us the same things our grannies could have: late nights are bad; happy marriages are good; poverty will take you to an early grave.

The current democratic structures have only been quorate 17% of the time in the past 10 years (therefore a proposed change was made to move to a system with more referenda, which have been quorate 0% of the time over the past 10 years) and it was widely felt that they were not publicised well enough.