Sentences with phrase «delegate supporting the motion»

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

[citation needed] In October 2009, Kawczynski appeared on The Doha Debates as a delegate supporting the motion of «This house deplores the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al - Megrahi».

Not exact matches

Some 66 delegates at the AGM of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) voted in favour of a motion that urged it to «decline any commercial transactions or any other kind of funding or support» from all companies that market breast milk substitutes.

The amendment supported by Ms Teather was defeated by approximately two votes to one before delegates rallied to back the original motion.

Delegates voted for two separate motions yesterday — one calling on the government to drop the health and social care bill altogether and the other arguing enough amendments had been made for the Liberal Democrats to now support it.

-LSB-...] Lib Dem Spring conference in Sheffield last month, delegates overwhelmingly supported the Social Liberal Forum (SLF) motion Tougher Action on Banks and Bonuses.

Delegates in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to back a motion put by the Lib Dem leadership for extra funds to support ethnic minority and female candidates, and to consider diversity when deciding which seats to target in an election.

Union bosses will go toe - to - toe with the Labour leadership today as they fight for delegates at the Labour conference to approve a motion opposing the party's support for a public sector pay freeze.

Union bosses are going toe - to - toe with the Labour leadership today as they fight for delegates at the Labour conference to approve a motion opposing the party's support for a public sector pay freeze.

• Nick Clegg has signalled his support for the motion passed by Lib Dem delegates yesterday calling for a review of drugs laws with a view to partial decriminalisation.

Pro-Europe delegates want to move a motion on Sunday voicing support for single market membership post-Brexit.

[Chapter Leaders, Delegates, and Rank and Filers — Please support this resolution by helping to distribute it before the Delegate Assembly on Wednesday — 4:15, 52 Broadway — and raising it during the motions period.

The momentous decision by Sinn Fein to support the policing and justice services of Northern Ireland ie the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the police boards, police ombudsman etc, and the court system — at a specially convened six - hour conference (the ard fheis) in Dublin, on 28 January 2007, attended by 2,000 delegates, where 900 party members voted on the motion — would appear to signal the possibility, if not probability, of the restoration of full devolutionary powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly (NIA) based at Stormont, Belfast.