quorum

The meeting has to take place before 31 December as per reports, after the previous one was adjourned for lack of quorum, but no new date has yet been announced.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Many commissions cannot conduct business without a quorum of a simple majority of commissioners.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

A lack of quorum in some weeks was a factor in the commission canceling roughly a third of its meetings last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Inside the human mouth, roughly 700 different bacterial species constantly exchange information through a process called quorum sensing.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025

The remainder just sat there, reminding everyone how far short we had fallen of the 10 percent of the membership— about seventy people—required for a quorum.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Both boards lost their quorums and could no longer act.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

Experts agree that while other independent agencies have gone without board quorums, none has faced the impending scenario of the merit board.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2019

They convened in caucus meetings and hallway quorums that became commiseration sessions.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2016

Such occasions featuring legislative quorums outside the Capitol are rare but not unprecedented.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2014

In one thing they agreed: when quorums of both houses were obtained, so that the votes could be counted, April 6, 1789, it was found that every elector had cast a ballot for George Washington.

From Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart