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The board meeting couldn’t proceed as planned because a quorum of members was not present.quorum = the smallest number of members needed to conduct official business
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The Senate typically requires 51 members to form a quorum.quorum = official attendance requirement
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"You need a quorum?" another director asked. (source)quorum = minimum number of members needed to conduct official business
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When I opened my eyes, more of the Bikura had arrived… There was a cessation of movement, as if a quorum had been filled, a decision reached. (source)
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Do we have a quorum? (source)
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Largely because of bad roads, the new Congress, scheduled to convene in New York on the first Wednesday in March 1789, would not have a sufficient number present to make a quorum in either house until weeks afterward. (source)
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It has been said that a quorum should be more than a majority. (source)quorum = minimum number of members needed to conduct official business
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They attempted to adjourn, to recess, to make a quorum impossible. (source)quorum = gathering of the smallest number of members needed to conduct official business
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In the new law courts—for Fort Mayne was over—the lawyers were as busy as bees, issuing writs for attainder, chancery, chevisance, disseisin, distraint, distress, embracery, exigent, fieri facias, maintenance, replevin, right of way, oyer and terminer, scot and lot, Quorum bonorum, Sic et non, Pro et contra, Jus primae noctis, and Questio quid juris?† (source)
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But in choosing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice.† (source)
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But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice.† (source)
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Singing like a lady enamored, she, at the ending of her words, continued: "Beati, quorum tecta sunt peccata;"[1] and, like nymphs who were wont to go solitary through the sylvan shades, this one desiring to see and that to avoid the sun, she moved on then counter to the stream, going up along the bank, and I at even pace with her, following her little step with little.† (source)
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At times there were not enough delegates for a quorum, and as the news from New Jersey became more bleak, and the British army drew nearer, Philadelphia was beset by an extreme outbreak of the jitters.† (source)
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In Massachusetts the business of the county is conducted by the Court of Sessions, which is composed of a quorum named by the Governor and his council; but the county has no representative assembly, and its expenditure is voted by the national legislature.† (source)
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A quorum meant that they were going to be asked to make an important decision. (source)quorum = minimum number of members needed to conduct official business
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Of course we have a quorum! (source)
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