oppose a motion

In 1968, Moscoe opposed a motion to have a separate school representative appointed to the board.

We would not oppose a motion for a postponement."

In 1992, he opposed a motion to remove the oath of allegiance to the Queen from the swearing-in ceremony.

Netherland opposed a motion calling for the use of force if the legislature refused, and repeatedly stressed caution.

In the deliberations Barnhart opposed a motion to "guarantee equal educational opportunity and free public schools" to all citizens.

Mr. Abrams appeared at a pretrial hearing on Tuesday to oppose a motion to expand the suit to include the defamation charge.

Last November, he and Eastern's lawyers opposed a motion by the airline's unsecured creditors to liquidate the carrier because it could not stem its losses.

In April 1941 Baxter was in the minority, but with the government, in opposing a motion to keep theatres and cinemas closed on Sundays.

Letters: Last Thursday, MPs were given their first chance to support or oppose a motion against the UK government's proposed changes to public sector pensions.

In 2001, she joined a minority of councillors in opposing a motion that deferred passage of an operating budget with strict cuts imposed by the Harris government.

At the Conservative Party Conference in 1973 he was booed when he opposed a motion calling on the Government to recognise the white minority regime in Rhodesia.

It is also urging the conference to oppose a motion, supported by the National Union of Mineworkers, to commit a Labour government to abolishing all nuclear power within 15 years.

Ashley, however, refused to join in the fight against Clarendon, opposing a motion to have Clarendon committed to the Tower of London on a charge of treason.

In 1960, as Deputy Leader of the Conservative group, he strongly opposed a motion by the Labour majority on the council to boycott goods from South Africa in protest at apartheid.

The printers' union, which is not part of the Allied council, opposes a motion by The Daily News to have the court void a 1974 contract that guarantees the jobs of the union's 167 members for life.

In 1912 he approved a modification to the system of parliamentary debate (in particular the system to finish debates), however if a large enough group opposed a motion or accused a minister, parliament could still be severely delayed.

The China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation, the jet fuel supplier that collapsed last year after losing $550 million trading oil-related derivatives, filed an affidavit opposing a motion by a creditor to oust its management.

Controlling interest in a corporation means to have control of a large enough block of voting stock shares in a company such that no one stock holder or coalition of stock holders can successfully oppose a motion.

The prosecutor, Whitney North Seymour Jr., opposing a motion to dismiss charges involving lobbying for T.W.A., accused Mr. Deaver of committing perjury "as part of a cover-up of his entire operation."

On November 27, Kennedy attracted media attention when he became the first leadership candidate to oppose a motion being debated in the Canadian House of Commons, that would have declared the Québécois "a nation within a united Canada".

Quintus Baebius, tribune of the plebs in 200 BC, opposed a motion to declare war on Philip of Macedon, and accused the Senate of warmongering; perhaps the eldest brother of the consular Baebii.

"I don't have a good feeling toward [French President Charles] De Gaulle, especially what he did to the United States and favoring Communist nations" (opposing a motion to lower city flags in observance of De Gaulle's death).

On 16 October 2012, Gillard also raised "sexism and misogyny" in a speech opposing a motion to remove Peter Slipper, her choice as Speaker of the House of Representatives, after revelations of inappropriate conduct on his part became public.

The faction also opposed a motion to remove the phrase "democratic socialism" from the preamble of the NDP's constitution and supported an unsuccessful resolution to bar the NDP from considering merger with the Liberal Party of Canada.

Like all his Republican colleagues but none of his fellow Democrats, Mr. Feingold, one of the Senate's most earnest and independent thinkers, opposed a motion to dismiss the charges against Mr. Clinton and supported a motion to take depositions from three witnesses.