Sentences with phrase «unanimous consent of»

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.

Its «composition» figures among the «matters» amendable only on unanimous consent of Parliament and the provinces.

Quietly last March, and with the unanimous consent of the House of Commons, the Harper government managed with one piece of legislation to affirm that Canada remains a monarchy, and that it also remains subservient to the British Parliament.

The Constitution Act, 1982 requires changes to the Supreme Court and its composition to be subject to the constitutional amending procedures — requiring the unanimous consent of Parliament and the provincial legislatures.

... abolition of the Senate requires the unanimous consent of the Senate, the House of Commons, and the legislative assemblies of all Canadian provinces.

Hence, the very purpose of the procedure laid down in Article 50 — allowing a withdrawal agreement to be concluded without requiring the unanimous consent of all the Member States — would be defeated.

«Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of Our Lord...»

With the unanimous consent of Sony Pictures and the entire cast and crew, including Spacey's co-stars Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg, they rapidly set up reshoots to replace the actor entirely.

Won't work past 2 pm: «Making good on Sen. John McCain's threat to withhold all Republican cooperation from Democrats in the Senate in retribution for the majority party using reconciliation to pass health care reform, the GOP used the rule that states committees can only meet when the chamber is in session with the unanimous consent of all members.»

«All recommendations would have to be by unanimous consent of the commission members, and be passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor before becoming law.

The EU can only change article 50 by unanimous consent of the member states, which means that before the UK leaves, the article can only be changed with the UK's agreement.

Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our LORD = God one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America.»

The LDS Church should not accept such papers and reject all such filings, except with the unanimous consent of all descendants.

It may well require the unanimous consent of the provinces, an unlikely prospect.

A corporation which has elected (by unanimous consent of its shareholders) under Subchapter S of the IRS code not to pay any corporate tax on its income.

The SSE Holdings LLC Agreement will provide that the unanimous consent of all members holding voting units will be required to voluntarily dissolve SSE Holdings.

It can be done at a shareholder meeting, by unanimous consent of shareholders, or even by majority shareholder consent «without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote,» Bouchard wrote.

Not exact matches

* NY Times: «The Obama administration is prepared to force Chrysler into bankruptcy by the end of the week unless it gets unanimous consent from a group of banks and hedge funds to retire the automaker's debt.»

When spoken only in the company of fellow believers, it is perfectly reasonable to expect unanimous consent.

In the Senate, consideration of legislation often requires unanimous consent.

He rose on that last day to call for unanimous consent in hopes that that too might help the document be accepted, and he said, «In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

Wednesday, Republicans deployed a workaround — Republicans on the committee used a «unanimous consent» clause to suspend all of its rules for the meeting, then voted to confirm the nominations for Steven Mnuchin, up for Treasury secretary, and Tom Price, nominated for Health and Human Services secretary.

Tracking allows the majority leader — with unanimous consent or the agreement of the minority leader — to have more than one bill pending on the floor as unfinished business.

By unanimous consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee's standing rules, which normally require at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.

Whenever upon such roll call it shall be ascertained that a quorum is not present, a majority of the Senators present may direct the Sergeant at Arms to request, and, when necessary, to compel the attendance of the absent Senators, which order shall be determined without debate; and pending its execution, and until a quorum shall be present, no debate nor motion, except to adjourn, or to recess pursuant to a previous order entered by unanimous consent, shall be in order.

Sen. Coburn got the Democratic leadership in the senate to cut out tens of billions of dollars of pork and waste, and passed the bill with unanimous consent.

The U.S. Senate voted to approve the Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering dean by unanimous consent late last night before adjourning until 15 November.

At the beginning of the semester, I received unanimous consent to collect data for an action research study from students enrolled in the geometry course.

And then, before the parents could testify, the school board decided by unanimous consent to approve the extension of Comienza to a TK - 8 school.

Vanda believes that the proposed amendments requiring unanimous Board consent to approve certain transactions would, in the Company's opinion, severely restrict the ability of the Company and its Board of Directors to conduct business.

The Senate, by unanimous consent, has approved the nominations of John Holdren as President Obama's science adviser and Jane Lubchenco as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to the office of Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader.

Polish vetoes are reminiscent of the seventeenth century liberum veto [1], a tool allowing any attendee of Parliament to terminate a Parliamentary session in the case of no unanimous consent (which ultimately contributed to the twilight of the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth).

The House of Representatives also sent a bill to the Senate on this subject, but again, due to the inability to process legislation in any mode other than unanimous consent in the Senate, we were not able to pass the legislation into law.

You need to record official actions of the directors and / or shareholders of a corporation that were taken by unanimous consent, rather than as part of a formal meeting.

If a corporation has a Unanimous Shareholder Agreement, which is usually recommend for corporations that have multiple shareholders, the agreement can add additional decisions that require shareholder consent, or the increase the amount of consent that is required over and above what is required by law.

However, through its unanimous decision, the SCC has done much more than this — it has refocused the discussion around the infringement of Aboriginal title away from its current pre-occupation with consultation towards consent.

In the Alberta Court of Appeal ruling reported as R v Wagar, 2015 ABCA 327 Justice Brian K. O'Ferrall, speaking for a unanimous court, made short shrift of Justice Camp's judgment, at p. 1: ``... [W] e are satisfied that the trial judge's comments throughout the proceedings and in his reasons gave rise to doubts about the trial judge's understanding of the law governing sexual assaults and in particular, the meaning of consent and restrictions on evidence of the complainant's sexual activity... We are also persuaded that sexual stereotypes and stereotypical myths, which have long since been discredited, may have found their way into the trial judge's judgment.»

Among other things, it declared that an abolition of the Court would require a unanimous consent amendment procedure, which would need the consent of Parliament and all the provinces.

(c) after the expiry of the Notice Period, if there is consent of the United Kingdom and unanimous vote the remaining 27 Member States accepting an extension of the Notice Period).

Constitutional Law: Senate Reform Senate Reference (Order in Council P.C. 2013 - 70, Feb. 1, 2013)(35203) Apr. 25, 2014 Parliament can not unilaterally achieve most of the proposed changes to the Senate, requiring the consent of at least seven provinces representing, in the aggregate, at least half of the population of all the provinces; abolition requires consent of all of the provinces and can only be done with unanimous federal - provincial consensus.

The Strata Property Act used to require the consent of all of the owners to terminate a strata corporation (although the court could allow termination with less than unanimous consent in some circumstances).

If a member of the national assembly wishes to wear a religious symbol, there must be unanimous consent from the assembly.

* * *... there is still a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Appellants had knowledge that the unanimous consent documents were ineffective and did not give Byun the authority to act alone on behalf of Jimmy Carter Commons.

Wendy's list does not include this dead child statute, though, because it was passed with unanimous consent (no doubt one of the benefits that a sentimental title is intended to achieve for the bill.)

Although the Senate might, as prof. Macfarlane suggests, be protected from abolition by its role in the process of constitutional amendment itself, which can not be changed without unanimous consent, the Court might even base its ruling on the broader ground that any fundamental alterations to the nature of the Canadian constitution require the consent of all the provinces.

Finally, regarding the abolition of the Senate, the Supreme Court will find that unanimous provincial consent is required.

But even that legislation is facing a hurdle: Mr. McConnell can not bring it up quickly for a vote because Senate rules require unanimous consent to do so, and at least one senator, Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, has objected.

To tolerate Byzantine failure, Stellar Consensus Protocol is designed not to require unanimous consent from the full set of nodes for the system to reach agreement.

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards today congratulated Catherine Russell after Congress confirmed by unanimous consent her appointment as Ambassador - at - Large for Global Women's Issues.

A lease can not be granted unless the relevant Land Council is satisfied that the group of traditional owners understand the nature and purpose of the proposed grant and, as a group, consent to it.97 This group consent need not be unanimous by must be given in accordance with either an agreed or a traditional decision - making process.98 This requirement is a fundamental aspect of the whole scheme of the ALRA (NT): decisions can not be made about Aboriginal land unless traditional owners have given their informed consent.