Word: motioning
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...Irish twist: Athlone didn't want to let them go. Within 24 hours of their departure, more than 4,000 people - nearly one-fifth of the town's population - had signed a petition asking Ireland's Justice Minister to reconsider. The town council passed a near-unanimous motion demanding that they be allowed to return, and hundreds of residents marched in a demonstration during which the leader of the Irish Senate declared her support. Posters still hang in shop windows on Athlone's main street, showing a three-year-old photograph of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern embracing the women...
Matory this semester emerged as one of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ most outspoken critics, filing the motion that led to the successful vote of no confidence in the president and becoming one of only three Harvard professors to call publicly for Summers’ resignation...
Matory’s motion, which passed with 218 affirmative votes from the Faculty, became the climax of the crisis of confidence in the University’s leadership that dramatically unfolded this semester...
...went on to advocate the formation of a committee—consisting of herself and two other Faculty members—to facilitate communication between the Faculty and Summers. When Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82 presented his motion for a vote of no confidence in Summers, Skocpol put forward a more conciliatory statement of criticism...
Even after the negative response to her first proposal, Skocpol still strove to work towards a resolution between the Faculty and Summers. Skocpol says that she put forth a more moderate, cooperative motion concurrently with Matory’s because most Faculty members doubted that Matory’s would pass and she wanted something to express faculty concerns “if the no confidence motion failed...