Sentences with phrase «on points of order»

He or she calls Members to speak, proposes and puts questions and declares the decision, enforces the rules of debate, rules on points of order and ensures that the provisions of the standing orders in their application to the Main Committee are applied.

«On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.

The move was based on a point of order raised by Ndume, who also called on the upper chamber of the National Assembly to investigate the certificate scandal involving Senator Dino Melaye.

Bob Spink MP: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.

Brooks Newmark, a Conservative, intervenes on a point of order.

On a point of order, Mr. Fitch.

«On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.

Mr. Simon Burns (West Chelmsford)(Con): On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.

The plea was based on a point of order raised by the Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, on the «recovery, return or release» of the abducted Dapchi girls.

«Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate)(Con): On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker.

The move was based on a point of order raised by a former Majority Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, who called the attention of the lawmakers to media reports on the matter.

On a point of order, I don't think it's justified to universally ascribe opposing views to malice.

Not exact matches

As you chill the methane and oxygen below its liquid point, you get a fairly meaningful density increase — you get on the order of 10 % to 12 % density increase, which makes quite a big difference for the propellant load.

Shum and Colaco point out that any reclassification of risk would be heavily scrutinized by Canadian regulators, in order to make sure that changes aren't self - serving on the part of policy providers and in fact benefit consumers.

«We have now reached a point where European integration, in order to survive, needs a bold leap of political imagination,» ECB president Mario Draghi said on May 24.

In order to find the potential turning points that will take an industry in a new direction, leaders must give their employees permission to stop focusing only on what needs to be accomplished by the end of the day or week.

You may need to alter your tone of voice, use more gestures or change the order of your talking points to get audience members back on board.

Still, the question remains whether the Obama administration scrubbed the talking points and used the video red herring in order to cover up the fact that they failed to prevent a planned terrorist attack that killed four Americans on the anniversary of September 11.

CASPERSEN and Park Hill Group were working on behalf of Firm - 1 to solicit investors for the loan, but, at some point after Firm - 1 agreed to take the loan, it transpired that Firm - 1 did not need the loan in order to purchase the secondary private equity interests.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

Starz chief exec Chris Albrecht, who ordered two seasons of the Capetown - based drama Black Sails before it had even aired, points out that the number of scripted dramas on TV has increased by 33 % since 2010.

The reader, which is free to order on the Square site, connects to Square Register, a souped - up point - of - sale app that replaces the traditional cash register, allowing customers to pay with cash or swipe a credit or debit card and sign on the screen with a finger.

In point of fact, in order to deliver on that, the business itself must change mindset.

Independent research firm Clearview Energy Partners of Washington D.C. noted in a comment late on Wednesday that Judge Boasberg's order pointed to «omissions» in the Corps» analysis, which the Corps may be able to address quickly, rather than larger errors that might require more study.

A supply curve is an ordered list of all the oil production opportunities globally, sorted by the cost of extraction or, probably better for this example, the potential free - on - board price at a global trading hub — take every oil play in the world and ask what it would cost delivered to the US Gulf Coast as a starting point.

The point of interest here for returning customers is to have tracking pixels, similar to the Nosto code so that the remarketing networks can target customers based on the categories and products that they're interested in and, importantly, stop selling to once they've ordered.

In Lighthouse Point, police obtained an order against a man who accused his neighbor of being a shape - shifter who took on the appearance of Osama bin Laden.

The height of the triangle at it's widest point gives you the measurement that you will need in order to see the patterns impact on the share price.

To see why this is so important, in 2009 residential investment exerted a 0.4 percentage point drag on GDP growth, while in 2013 it is likely to provide a boost to growth on the order of 0.5 percentage point — a swing of nearly a full percentage point.

Borrowers who chose a loan with a shorter repayment term in order to get the lowest interest rate and maximize overall savings reduced their interest rate by 1.71 percentage points and will pay $ 18,668 less over the life of their new loan, on average.

If same - day delivery isn't fast enough, never fear: students on five college campuses can now place their Amazon order and immediately go pick it up from one of the new «Instant Pickup» points near campus.

In order for currency on a scale such as local community currencies or loyalty points to be linked to other currencies, there is a need for a method to provide a medium of exchange that allows for the difference in scale.

Our futures, too, are higher, with the gains on the order of a third of a percentage point.

In the case of the binary trading, except high or low options, the strike prices are set by the broker and even if you have a fair idea on how an underlying asset will behave, you can not place an order to be executed at certain price points.

The ones in english are of course translations that have varying problems of translation, all of which are clearly understood at this point (as the bible is the most studied text on the face of the earth, by orders of magnitude).

Therefore, we abandoned our customary stance of opposing much of what the church does in order to support it on this narrow point.

This distinction points to what is perhaps the major flaw in Dreher's otherwise winsome effort: the lack of emphasis on creation as a normative order to which everyone, irrespective of faith, is subject.

And one may, without being unpleasant about it, note that the mainstream media and the scientific establishment who beat the drums for the necessity of killing embryos in order, they said, to find cures for all kinds of illnesses, along with politicians who agitated for multibillion - dollar referendums in California, Missouri, and New Jersey, were, not to put too fine a point on it, dead wrong.

In order for us to reach that point we must recognize what sin is, repent of it and rely solely on the shed blood of Jesus Christ as the means for us to spend eternity with God.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Commenting on Whitehead's doctrine of structured societies at the cellular level, John Cobb remarks: «Whitehead at that point was forced to explain the order in the cell in terms of its molecular structure, to which spontaneity was denied, and to explain the life of the cell in terms of the events in its empty space, which he depicted as radically unordered.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

A divorce is by definition a clash of competing truths and do you think we can get to the truth of it all on an online forum in order to then make a larger point about theology and spiritual leadership?

In any case, when Shaull resumes a theological point of view he rediscovers in a theology the theses mentioned above: Christianity is revolutionary, it deconsecrates, it orients us toward a future that is always to be created, messianism must not be forgotten on earth, and the kingdom of God is a dynamic reality which judges the social order.

Melanie Phillips pointed out that she had been writing for more than two decades «on the various elements that have contributed to this collapse of order: family breakdown and mass fatherlessness; educational collapse which damages most those at the bottom of the social heap» and so on.

The defense of traditional marriage doesn't, Roberts insists, rest on «partisan and fideistic grounds,» but can point to patterns inherent in «creational order» and the witness of history.

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).

Some might point out that the phrase «instead of» might be replaced with many other phrases that fit with their own system (such as «in order to do», or «before», etc. — this list could go on).

«Subjective aim», on the other hand, points out a definite conceptual feeling, present throughout concrescence, affecting the subjective forms of all its feelings in order to bring them into a final unity.

All that Bergson really says is that we can not know disorder without making it into an order of some sort first, and points out that the relation between the «two directions of order» is really a continuum that we distinguish on the basis of its extremes (completely free activity and geometrical mechanism, or integration and differentiation, to use the terms Gunter recommends) for the purposes of talking about this issue.