When consensus is deemed to be unattainable, either the " presenter " of a proposal or the " facilitator " of the deliberations is empowered to choose the closing option of a fallback vote.

During Toronto City Council deliberations over the proposal to turn the abandoned Adams Mine in Northern Ontario into a massive dump site for Toronto's garbage, then-councillors Jack Layton and Olivia Chow surprised their council colleagues by playing " Trash of the Titans.

During Toronto City Council deliberations over the waste site proposal, then-councillors Jack Layton and Olivia Chow surprised their council colleagues by playing The Simpsons 200th episode, Trash of the Titans, in which the comically inept Homer Simpson becomes sanitation commissioner of Springfield and ends up shoving trash from his own and many other communities into a mine, to deleterious effect.

After long deliberations including the offer of $ 227 million in subsidies, a site on the far south side of San Antonio was selected as the location for the new assembly plant.

Its costive deliberations were likened to those of the British courts of chancery mercilessly caricatured by Dickens in Bleak House.

The deliberations were held at the city hall, but voting occurred in the cathedral.

Cromwell " well knew that while the Long Parliament, that noble company, who had fought the great battle of liberty from the beginning, remained in session, and such men as Vane were enabled to mingle in its deliberations, it would be utterly useless for him to think of executing his purposes ( to set up a Protectorate or Dictatorship ).

As a result, only deliberations on the role of the Papacy and the congruent relationship of faith and reason were completed, with examination of pastoral issues concerning the direction of the Church left unaddressed.

Additionally, if the envoys were unable to reach a unanimous decision within six weeks ( the time limit of a single session ), deliberations were declared void and all previous acts passed by that Sejm were annulled.

Experts on relations with Congress were also drawn into the deliberations to get the best advice on persuading the Congress to pass the legislation.

Despite Cutler's defense and critiques about the prosecution's performance, according to mob writers Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, when the jury's deliberations began a majority were in favor of convicting Gotti.

Declarations of war had to be approved by the women, while treaties of peace were subject to their deliberations.

During these deliberations it became clear that the work of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention had been groundbreaking: the Guthrie meeting essentially adopted almost exactly the same boundaries for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma as were proposed earlier for Sequoyah, again identifying Antlers as county seat.

The group's deliberations were sensitive and highly secret, dealing as they did with the highly classified fact that there was a covert side to the Marshall Plan, where the CIA used certain funds to aid anti-communist groups in France and Italy.

The results of the deliberations were embodied in seventy-eight resolutions, which were appended to the encyclical issued, in the name of the conference, by the Archbishop of Canterbury on August 8.

All that was subsequently revealed of their deliberations was which countries had qualified, with the precise scores and placings remaining under wraps ( although they were leaked some time later ).

The estates could only assemble when summoned by him ; he could dismiss them whenever he thought fit ; and their deliberations were to be confined exclusively to the propositions which he might think fit to lay before them.

In early 1947, in the months leading up to the deliberations of the Punjab Boundary Commission, the main disputed areas appeared to be in the Bari and Bist doabs, although some areas in the Rechna doab were claimed by the Congress and Sikhs.

I did not trifle in contending for my head, nor in long and secret deliberations with such of my colleagues as were threatened with my own fate.

They were promptly published by the radical Boston Gazette, along with deliberations of the governor's council.

As USPD chairman Hugo Haase was in Kiel and the deliberations went on the USPD deputies were unable to reach a decision that day.

From 1586 on they were barred from taking part in the deliberations over Leicester's objection, though he managed to retain their seats in the Council of State for them.

Upon their return, they were imprisoned, and one of them, Erasinides, was brought to trial and convicted of several charges involving misconduct in office ; this trial may represent an attempt by the generals ' enemies to test the wind, since Erasinides, who had proposed abandoning the survivors altogether during the deliberations after the battle, may have been the easiest target among the six.

If you find as a result of your deliberations that the rules and safeguards were broken by one or more of the railwaymen concerned, or in other words that they have been negligent, there remains one point which you must decide, and it is this.

Reports were spread, however, of Rushworth's complicity in the late king's death, and he was called before the lords to give an account of the deliberations of the regicides, but professed to know nothing except by hearsay.

The meetings were private, and early records of the deliberations do not exist.

Weather did not allow an outdoor meeting, so the Assembly moved their deliberations to a nearby indoor real tennis court, where they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath ( 20 June 1789 ), under which they agreed not to separate until they had given France a constitution.

When he shut down the Salle des États where the Assembly met, the Assembly moved their deliberations to a nearby tennis court, where they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath ( 20 June 1789 ), under which they agreed not to separate until they had given France a constitution.

These recommendations ( on pages 30-31 ) include a suggestion for the President of the United States to issue executive orders, and other actions, that would prevent further " abuse "; for the United States Congress to hold appropriate hearings, consider the consequences of statutory law under its influence, increase the amount of publicly available scientific information, and establish an organization to guide Congress in its deliberations in technical matters ; for scientists to raise awareness of the aforementioned issues and provide public policy recommendations ; for the public to exercise its political influence in a constructive manner.

The deliberations and decisions of the Council itself under the co-decision procedure are, unlike all other Council meetings, including COREPER and Council working group meetings, public.

As a result of deliberations by the Austin Group with the goal of bringing flavors of UNIX that do not provide STREAMS, such as BSD and Linux, under the Single UNIX Specification, the UNIX 03 Single UNIX Specification both declares STREAMS as optional, and declares POSIX Sockets as the preferred API for new transport protocols.

The Assembly moved their deliberations to the king's tennis court ( Jeu de paume ), where they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath ( Serment du jeu de paume ), under which they agreed not to separate until they had settled the constitution of France.

The President of Muis also has " general control of all deliberations and proceedings of the Majlis " under section 19 ( 1 ) of AMLA.

* Original Item: Right of asylum-Decision: the commission decided to postpone any deliberations on the subject, since the issue was under discussion by the International Court of Justice.

After the destruction of Gaza airport by Israeli army Arabic States delegations submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO and IMO Council aohail subject to the terms of the delegation in Arabic ( Algeria, Saudi, Egypt ;, Lebanon ) by subtracting the issue in accordance with the texts of treaties and international law and after protracted deliberations, the US delegation used every means to prevent the condemnation of Israel by the Council, but the Council, under the insistence of Arabic delegations, came again to vote with the result of condemning Israel for the destruction of a civilian airport and navigational devices used for civilian purposes only.

All such discussions / deliberations, which are anti-social, anti-human fall under this category.

The end of the Cold War brought many changes to the Air Force, and Castle AFB was selected for closure under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 during Round II Base Closure Commission deliberations ( BRAC 91 ).

Carswell AFB was selected for closure under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 during Round II Base Closure Commission deliberations ( BRAC 91 ).

It has been noted that this may have a chilling effect on the Council's deliberations as such a guest might be the author or a vocal proponent of the legislation under scrutiny.

The Assembly moved their deliberations to the king's tennis court, where they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath ( June 20, 1789 ), under which they agreed not to separate until they had given France a constitution.

During the deliberations, on June 6, 1788, Nicholas countered Patrick's Henry's objection that correcting defects in the new national Constitution by way of the Article V convention would be excessively difficult.

This time it was not the technical inadequacy as with the predecessors but political deliberations that stood in the way of the project.

Sir Humphrey is a master of obfuscation and manipulation, often making long-winded statements such as, " In view of the somewhat nebulous and inexplicit nature of your remit, and the arguably marginal and peripheral nature of your influence within the central deliberations and decisions within the political process, there could be a case for restructuring their action priorities in such a way as to eliminate your liquidation from their immediate agenda.