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quorum

noun as in majority

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There’s a chance that they will not and that the committee doesn’t even have a quorum to hold votes.

Eventually, a city lawyer told the PAC that Lightfoot and her aides participated in conference calls with a quorum of the City Council on March 26, March 30 and April 6.

Judges serve a single four-year term on the Appellate Body, which needs a minimum quorum of three in order to conduct reviews.

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SANDAG board members protesting the agency’s voting procedure last week nearly succeeded in depriving the agency of a quorum and denying it the right to make decisions.

So we drew from that shifting quorum threshold that your vote matters, but some votes just matter more.

Videos of Quorum: Global LGBT Voices talks and panel discussions will be broadcasted on The Daily Beast in coming months.

Many agencies, such as the NLRB and the FEC, have multimember boards that require a quorum to operate.

When the Democrats saw what was up, a bunch of them took off for Oklahoma, and New Mexico to prevent a quorum vote.

Jacob Bernstein talks to a gay quorum about the morning-show double standard.

Norumbegam illi nobis nescio quam, vrbsque & castella nominant, quorum hodie ne vmbra quidem aut ipsa vox extant.

At the third meeting, however, there was a full quorum, and the business done at the previous meetings was duly confirmed.

A quorum is necessary to do business and a majority of the members of each house is considered as a quorum.

The governor was further to have the initiative of all measures proposed in the council, five of whom were required for a quorum.

Five of the quorum of the Twelve were in this apostacy; and some in every organized quorum became disaffected.

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