(n.) Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.
Example Sentences:
(1) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(2) It was opposed by Ugandan prime minister Amama Mbabazi, who argued that not enough MPs were present for a quorum, a challenge that might yet discourage Museveni from signing the bill into law.
(3) Their absence denied the meeting a quorum, and a new president of the tribunal was appointed by the president, Andrzej Duda, instead.
(4) Because anti-government demonstrators blocked candidate registration in 28 southern provinces, parliament will not have enough representatives to form a quorum what ever the final outcome of the poll.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Owen Jones on Yemen: Britain’s forgotten conflict Blunt and his allies on the CAEC created a furore at a lengthy private meeting last week when they prevented the committee reaching a consensus by walking out and ensuring there were not enough MPs to form a quorum.
(6) Cameron is demanding a “red card” for an unspecified quorum of national parliaments, enabling them to veto legislation from the European commission.
(7) Shortly after 1.30pm , suspense filled the floor as senators watched as the upper house reached a quorum.
(8) Their flight meant the 19 Republican senators were one short of the quorum of 20 needed for passage of the bill.
(9) All 10 Democrats on the committee refused to turn up to the environment and public works panel, denying it a quorum, complaining that Pruitt had failed to answer basic questions such as what is a safe level of lead in drinking water.
(10) Not enough to form a quorum, admittedly, but more than enough to explode the myth of an opposition party united for Zimbabwe and against continued Zanu-PF rule.
(11) "The speaker was obliged to ensure that there was quorum," the court said in its ruling.
(12) To clarify the relationship between the cervicobrachial disorders in the school-lunch female cooks and number of lunch, 15 elementary school-lunch cooks of O town whose quorum were observed by the standard of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and 19 cooks of M town whose quorum was one more than the standard were examined medically and their work conditions were also investigated.
(13) The campaigners are arguing that the law, which they describe as draconian, is invalid because it was passed in parliament without the necessary quorum of lawmakers.
(14) In their surprise ruling last week, judges said it had been passed without the necessary quorum of MPs in parliament.
(15) When earlier this month the court’s judges gathered to vote on Rzepliński’s replacement, three judges appointed by the present government called in sick on the same day, denying the gathering of a quorum.
(16) If the Spanish government agreed, we could negotiate the question, the date, the franchise and the quorum.
(17) That's a quorum, and he must just get on with implementing it ASAP.
(18) It needs to be passed by the state senate, whose Democratic members have fled to a neighbouring state to deny the Republicans a quorum.
(19) Labor frontbencher Kate Ellis told Sky News “there was a very formal process that in order to be approved to travel for those hearings, we needed to have a meeting of the committee that had a full quorum; that declared that there would be a public hearing; and that we agreed; and it was placed in the minutes that there would be official business of the committee in this city or town, on this date”.
(20) Neither was there the quorum of ponytails and scruffy students that would typically be expected at one of his father’s rallies.