Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Council instructed the city solicitor to draft legislation to end the leasing plan, but the council will postpone action on the motion until after "we've been educated on the issue," councilor Francis Duehay said last night...
...motion put before Parliament by the Tories was simple and straightforward: 'That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's government." By a margin of a single vote, the Commons agreed. Thus last week, in one of the most dramatic episodes in Britain's recent political history, the Labor government of Prime Minister James Callaghan went down to defeat, thereby forcing an early election. The last such sacking took place 55 years ago, when Britain's first Labor government, led by Ramsay MacDonald, lost a similar vote of confidence...
...galleries, peers from the House of Lords stood jammed together like asparagus stalks, while Tory wives watched like Upstairs, Downstairs'aristocracy, waiting for the vote that might cast them and their husbands once again into the front ranks. In the seven-hour debate that preceded the motion, Thatcher led off with a crisp but low-keyed assault on Callaghan for mismanaging the nation's affairs. "Never has our standing in the world been lower," she declared. "Britain is now a nation on the sidelines." She summed up Britain's needs in a phrase tailored to campaign-poster...
...after a heart attack, could not make it on a stretcher to vote, while a Tory M.P. whose wife had died said he would come. As the members filed back into the chamber after voting, there was a tense period of anxious suspense until the result was announced: the motion had passed 311 to 310. The Conservative benches erupted into cheers; Thatcher remained seated, showing no emotion. Later, after a champagne celebration with her husband Denis, she accorded that "a night like this comes once in a lifetime...
Vellucci, the council's swing vote--who once filed a motion to institute vacancy decontrol--told a jeering crowd at the council hearing, "You're damn right I'm supporting rent control...If it's one thing I've got a reputation for, it's guts...