" The Senate quickly confirmed his nomination along with a rank of brigadier general.

His bill was passed quickly by the House of Commons but was stalled by the Senate, which returned the bill to the Commons with the recommendation that the holiday be renamed The National Holiday of Canada, an amendment that effectively killed the bill.

The parliament quickly adopted a new constitution, proclaimed Albania a republic, and granted Zogu dictatorial powers that allowed him to appoint and dismiss ministers, veto legislation, and name all major administrative personnel and a third of the Senate.

The Senate quickly ratified the treaty that completed the purchase.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

After his election, Daley quickly moved back to the Democratic side of the aisle in 1938, when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate.

The Senate quickly began to vote to approve this, but before it finished, Marius had given up all pretense and entered the city with his bodyguard, the Bardyiae.

Clay's influence in Kentucky state politics was quickly such that in 1806 the Kentucky legislature elected him to the Senate seat of John Breckinridge.

In Rome, the Senate quickly acknowledged him, not only for fear of reprisals, but also because he was one of their own.

Congress quickly passed the Civil Rights bill ; the Senate on February 2 voted 33 – 12 ; the House on March 13 voted 111 – 38.

In Episode I, amid a trade dispute, blockade and invasion of Naboo by the Trade Federation, then-Senator Palpatine convinces Naboo's Queen Padmé Amidala to address the Galactic Senate, in order to call for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor of the Republic Finis Valorum's leadership, due to his alleged inability to act quickly to end the occupation of Naboo.

The Roman Senate quickly voted it as a new province.

Nepos arrived in Italy, quickly deposed Glycerius who offered no resistance, and was proclaimed Emperor by the Roman Senate in June 474.

The bill passed the House and Senate quickly and was made law on March 19, 1816.

The first Democratic governor to be elected in the Northern United States following the American Civil War, and having defended the Democratic position in the Senate during the war, Hendricks quickly grew in popularity among the national party.

Johnson, who wanted the bill passed as soon as possible, ensured that the bill would be quickly considered by the Senate.

On June 19, the substitute ( compromise ) bill passed the Senate by a vote of 71 – 29, and quickly passed through the House-Senate conference committee, which adopted the Senate version of the bill.

Gaius knelt and prayed to the goddess, asking that the People of Rome be forever enslaved by their masters since many had openly and quickly switched sides when an amnesty was declared by the Senate.

Minton was pleased with Roosevelt's bill and quickly became its leading supporter in the Senate.

Back at home, he found himself elected to a partial term in the Senate, where he quickly became a critic of Lamar's administration.

After serving out the remainder of Muskie's term, Mitchell was elected to his first full term in 1982 with approximately 61 % of the vote against Congressman David Emery, and rose quickly in the Senate Democratic leadership.

The firm quickly became Doak and Shrum, and Trippi helped produce the media and strategy for several successful gubernatorial and U. S. Senate campaigns, including those of Virginia Governor Jerry Baliles, Senator Alan Cranston of California, Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey.

Day was confirmed by the United States Senate very quickly, on February 28, 1899, and received commission the same day.

The Senate met in St Sophia and offered the crown to Theodore Lascaris, who had married into the Angelid family, but it was too late.

It met with stronger resistance in the Senate — some Senators objected to the change of name ; Ernest Manning, who argued that the rationale for the change was based on a misperception of the name, and George McIlraith, who did not agree with the manner in which the bill had been passed and urged the government to proceed in a more " dignified way "— but finally passed.

Soon after his break with the Senate, Caligula was met with a number of additional conspiracies against him.

A deputation from the Roman Senate met with the Emperors, renewing that body's infrequent contact with the Imperial office.

In June, Gaddafi made his first visit to Rome, where he met Prime Minister Berlusconi, President Giorgio Napolitano, Senate President Renato Schifani, and Chamber President Gianfranco Fini, among others.

In secret, while the Senate debated his request, the ambassadors met with and subverted a number of the leading men of Rome to the royal cause, in the Tarquinian conspiracy.

He made many diplomatic visits throughout Europe and the Americas, including an extensive visit to the United States in 1936 where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed a personal envoy – who did not require Senate confirmation – to the Holy See in December 1939, re-establishing a diplomatic tradition that had been broken since 1870 when the pope lost temporal power.

He is said to have converted that temple into the Curia Hostilia close to where the Senate originally met in an old Etruscan hut.

This proposal was met with demonstrations on campus and was later reworked ( to reduce the redundancies and reallocate the reductions in faculties funding ) after being rejected by the university Senate.

Because the liberals still controlled the Senate, many of the cabinet's proposals met resistance there and the cabinet fell before the end of its four year term.

The Senate which met in this chamber was one of the oldest public institutions in Venice ; it had first been founded in the 13th century and then gradually evolved over time, until by the 16th century it was the body mainly responsible for overseeing political and financial affairs in such areas as manufacturing industries, trade and foreign policy.

Governor Jackson and the Missouri General Assembly met in the Masonic Hall, numbering thirty nine members of the House and ten of the Senate.

He was elected to the Texas State Senate in 1884, two years before he met the minimum age requirement of twenty-six.

Although signed by Pierce and Santa Anna, the treaty needed to be ratified by a 2 / 3 vote of the U. S. Senate, where it met strong opposition.

In response to the refusal of the United States Senate to ratify the treaty, a young member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, met with the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko, " educated him about American concerns and interests " and secured several changes that neither the U. S. Secretary of State nor President Jimmy Carter could obtain.

The Commons met in the College's Gamble Library and the Senate in the Chapel.

The curia per antonomasia was the Curia Hostilia in Rome, which was the building where the Senate usually met.

When the episcopal charges of the bishops of Poitiers, Nîmes, and Nevers, recommending the case of the captive Pope Pius IX to the sympathy of the French Government, were met by a resolution in the Chamber, proposed by the Left, that the Government be requested " to repress Ultramontane manifestations " ( 4 May 1877 ), Magenta, twelve days later, asked Jules Simon to resign, summoned to power a conservative ministry under the Duc de Broglie, persuaded the Senate to dissolve the Chamber, and travelled through the country to assure the success of the Conservatives in the elections, protesting at the same time that he did not wish to overturn the Republic.

In 1871, President Grant's appointed Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, worked out an agreement with British representative Sir John Rose in Washington to create a commission consisting of six members from the British Empire and six members from the United States to resolve the Alabama claims, refinancing, and other international disputes between Canada and the United States by treaty. On March 8, 1871 the Treaty of Washington was signed at the State Department and the United States Senate ratified the treaty on May 24, 1871. According to the treaty, an international arbitration tribunal met in Geneva.

From Rome, Ptolemy XII prosecuted his restitution but met opposition with certain members of the Senate.

As holding princeps senatus, the emperor declared the opening and closure of each Senate session, declared the Senate's agenda, imposed rules and regulation for the Senate to follow, and met with foreign ambassadors in the name of the Senate.