Sentences with phrase «aussrance of a quorum»

«The absence of a quorum will leave the agency unable to tackle much of its important work promoting energy infrastructure for the benefit of U.S. energy consumers,» the groups wrote.

Lack of a quorum blocks major agency actions and could short - circuit Trump's goal to jump - start infrastructure projects, a key part of his campaign pledge to create jobs.

How many female «Presidents», «Prophets», Members of the Quorum, Priests, or Bishops, Elders etc. do you have?

The speech in question was that made by LDS Church apostle Boyd K. Packer, 86, the president of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles — a governing body in the worldwide church.

The question of «incomprehensibility» was addressed, very directly and quite authoritatively by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in General Conference, October 2007:

«In considering the equal partnership, Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles eloquently said: «There is not a president or a vice president in a family.

Can a Presidential Veto be overridden with two thirds of the quorum, or is two - thirds of the total seats required?

The rules appear to be the same for amendments in the Senate, in that two thirds of the quorum is valid.

The U.S. vs. Ballin established that a majority of the quorum is sufficient to pass a law.

Since the US Constitutional Quorum for most purposes is a majority of each house of Congress, can bills pass that house with a majority of the quorum or do they need a majority of the total seats of that house to pass?

They don't even need to be present, there just needs to be enough of them absent to prevent a cloture motion from passing; one representative needs to hang around to suggest the absence of a quorum, and that's it.

The intended purpose of a quorum call is to establish the presence of a constitutional quorum, but senators routinely use them to waste time while waiting for the next speaker to come to the floor or for leaders to negotiate off the floor.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency's Board of Directors tabled votes for several special project items due to a lack of quorum at Wednesday's meeting.

Buffalo, NY — The Erie County Industrial Development Agency's Board of Directors tabled votes for several special project items due to a lack of quorum at Wednesday's meeting.

All 14 of the Democratic state senators left the state to Illinois on February 17, preventing the passage of the bill by the mostly Republican legislature in the absence of the quorum necessary for a vote.

The alignment makes the aussrance of a quorum to do business fraught with peril when a single missing member or two could shut down the work of the body.

Subsequent tests confirmed the role of quorum sensing and virulence.

To explore the health consequences of quorum sensing in the crypts, the researchers introduced into the flow a molecule that acts as an antagonist to turn off quorum sensing in chambers colonized by the well - known scourge of hospitals, methicillin - resistant S. aureus, or MRSA.

In each situation, the researchers found that the level and location of quorum sensing depended on the three - dimensional shape of the physical space combined with the flow conditions.

Results depend on a majority and the rules of quorum.

Disruption of a Quorum Sensing mechanism triggers tumorigenesis: a simple discrete model corroborated by experiments in mammary cancer stem cells

They can shift the microbiome to restore normal commensal gut flora, suppress pathogenic overgrowths like Clostridia, and squelch opportunistic pathogens through the use of quorum sensing.

Because the nine - member board already had two vacancies, the absences deprived it of a quorum, forcing it to cancel meetings 11 times.

«The purpose of a quorum is to prevent an unrepresentative group from taking action in the name of the organization,» says «Robert's Rules of Order» (as translated into plain English in the 19970 by Doris Zimmerman, a professionally registered parliamentarian).

Past boycotts of quorum calls have set unfortunate precedents.

A majority of a quorum of a panel of the commission shall have final agency authority in all cases involving the revocation, suspension, or other disciplining of certificates of teachers and school administrators.

In the absence of a quorum an informal discussion of the agenda items should take place and tentative proposals, where appropriate, should be minuted.

A newsletter member can not vote or hold office and does not count in the determination of a quorum.

The presiding officer shall call for a vote of the quorum in attendance at the annual meeting to approve the slate of officers, directors, recent graduate and director emeritus.

NOT OVER was organized by Quito Zeigler, L.J. Roberts and Ted Kerr as part of QuORUM, with support by Visual AIDS and Queerocracy.

Members may resign from membership at any time by notifying the Secretary of the Executive in writing or their membership may be terminated by the decision of a quorum of the Executive at any time by notice in writing.

The SBI did not manage to reach consensus on the 2014 - 15 budget nor on the Consultative Group of Experts (CGE) and the plenary could not conclude at 5 am due to lack of quorum.

He claims there were procedural lapses; one in particular involved a lack of quorum on a vote to have the terms of his contract reviewed.

ZSA is pleased to be the Executive Producer of the Quorum Club that brings together the top legal minds in the country.

The focus of the Quorum Club is to dissect issues.

The 2013 Quorum Club will take place on September 25 - 26th at the Park Hyatt in Toronto The core idea of the Quorum Club is to bring together senior corporate counsel (Number one's only!)

We're fitting that on top of Quorum, and it's providing the same kind of security for Quorum that it provides for zcash.»

Even though the talks were still in their infancy, a potential spin - off of Quorum might raise a few eyebrows.

XinFin has architected its hybrid network from a fork of Quorum.

Think of Quorum like Lunchables for blockchain business transactions.

Not exact matches

Quorum features an updated consensus mechanism, the process by which different computers agree on the order and legitimacy of transactions on the network, created by Jeffrey Wilcke, one of the founders of Ethereum and developer of the Go client.

In effect, Quorum has two layers of consensus on a single blockchain, meaning two ways of reaching agreement about its transaction records, both stored on one distributed database, or blockchain.

The J.P. Morgan representatives on the call said they plan to open source the documentation and code base behind Quorum by the end of the year.

The system, dubbed «Quorum,» is designed to toe the line between private and public in the realm of shuffling derivatives and payments.

You either need a) the top dog to pick a bone, or b) a quorum of senior leadership.

Lazy nodes can be booted from the network by a quorum of peers, and new ones can join through a similar, reverse process, Camp said.

Unlike Bitcoin, JPMorgan's blockchain Quorum is private, or «permissioned,» meaning that only authorized participants can join the network of machines that maintains it.

Baldet had been heading up JPMorgan's Blockchain Center of Excellence, where she led the product direction for Quorum, JPMorgan's business - oriented blockchain, a buzzy database technology that uses shared ledgers for record keeping.

A Bloomberg index of seven North American hospital chains has fallen nearly 8 % over the past three days, with Tenet Healthcare (thc) down more than 10 %, Community Health Systems (cyh) down 12 %, and Quorum Health (qhc) sinking more than 16 %.

Democrat Norman Bay is stepping down Friday from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, leaving the five - member panel with just two commissioners, one short of the number needed to form a quorum.