Word: motioning
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...balloting by forming a human shield around the Speaker's podium, hoping to prevent him from taking his seat and calling the vote. It didn't work. Security guards physically carried out the barricading legislators, and the ruffled Speaker took his seat to call a secret ballot on the motion, which passed overwhelmingly because the Uri lawmakers refused to vote...
...particularly disturbing scene, the camera shows a Vietnamese man being shot in the head at point-blank range in a street. The moving image, familiar to many as a still photo, is rendered all the more powerful in slow motion...
...representative from Adams House, has correctly criticized one recent instance of executive session as “totally inappropriate.” Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 has countered that these blackout tactics, initiated by any one representative’s motion and authorized by a simple majority of council members present, are made necessary by the high-stakes give-and-take he and other representatives must engage in. “Basically, when we are negotiating with the president’s office and the administration in general, we want to control the information that...
...motion to overturn Ficom’s exemption narrowly failed by a vote of 20-19. During the vote, after the council decided that no members could abstain from the decision, three council members left the room in protest...
...Movies like this are not meant to be good, though there's no inherent reason why they shouldn't be. They're just meant to set a couple of cute guys, some interchangeable girlfriends and character actors (including a hair-netted Will Ferrell in creepy mode) into mildly amusing motion. You could argue that Vince Vaughn's master crook might be more mysterious and menacing. You could say that Snoop Dogg, as their informant Huggy Bear, could use some better dialogue, though he and Stiller do have a funny contretemps over his pet lizard. You could ... but why bother? This...