Word: motioning
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...strictly enforce our monitoring systems to eliminate any transfer of benefits." Earlier this month, the legislature voted 34-3 for a non-binding resolution against the West Kowloon plan. "Invariably, people see this as a conspiracy between the government and big business," says legislator Alan Leong, who tabled the motion...
...museum recently hosted hit exhibitions like “Einstein” and “The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy—the Exhibition...
Ammann discovered a strange skull with the dimensions of a chimpanzee's but with an odd, prominent crest like a gorilla's. Motion-detecting cameras in the forest caught what looked like immense chimpanzees, and a photograph purchased from poachers showed hunters posing with an animal estimated to be twice the size of an ordinary chimp. Ammann measured a fecal dropping three times as big as chimp dung and footprints as large as or larger than a gorilla...
...From different sides, ?Fahrenheit? and ?The Passion? proved that, in an era of depressingly trivial pop culture, movies can matter. I hope official Hollywood gets the message about these two message movies. Let?s see if the Motion Picture Academy takes Moore?s dare - since, with his usual hellacious chutzpah, he refused to submit it in the documentary category - and nominates it for Best Picture. In fact, if Academy members have even a pair of cojones among them, they?ll nominate both ?Fahrenheit? ?The Passion? for Best Picture of 2004. Think of it: the outraged Left vs. the religious Right...
...implicate his potential allies? "It might be the influence of some of his top lieutenants who want to keep the masses mobilized," says the staffer. "Or he simply let it slip, provoked by incessant questioning." Last week, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma abruptly fired Satsyuk from the SBU and a motion, pending since July, to strip him of his parliamentary status - and thereby his immunity - was approved. (Satsyuk's opponents had argued that his job at the SBU was incompatible with being an M.P.) Meanwhile, the first signs emerged that Ukraine's orange revolution may be seeping across the border into...