In the 5th century BC we often hear of the assembly sitting as a court of judgment itself for trials of political importance and it is not a coincidence that 6000 is the number both for the full quorum for the assembly and for the annual pool from which jurors were picked for particular trials.

For a small category of votes a quorum of 6000 was required, principally grants of citizenship, and here small coloured stones were used, white for yes and black for no.

*§ 141 ( b ) the board's quorum for director meetings cannot be under one third.

*§ 216, the quorum for shareholder meetings cannot be less than one-third of those entitled to vote.

With many of Cannon's most powerful allies absent from the Chamber, but enough Members on hand for a quorum, Norris introduced a resolution that would remove the Speaker from the Rules Committee and strip him of his power to assign committees.

In 1994, however, the parliament failed to produce a quorum for its last scheduled session prior to the expiration of its term in February 1995.

In 1994, however, the Parliament failed to produce a quorum for its last scheduled session prior to the expiration of its term ( February 1995 ).

Plutarch's evidence for a quorum of 6, 000, on a priori grounds a necessity for ostracism also per the account of Philochorus, accords with the number required for grants of citizenship in the following century and is generally preferred.

While no Orthodox legal authorities agree that women can form a minyan ( prayer quorum ) for the purpose of regular services, women in these groups read the prayers and study Torah.

During shiva, a minyan ( a quorum of ten or more adult Jews ) traditionally gather at the shiva home for services.

The Twelfth Amendment introduced a quorum requirement of two-thirds for the conduct of balloting.

Decades later, it was still difficult to form a minyan, or quorum of ten, for prayer.

In November 1835 at San Felipe de Austin, the Consultation ( Texas ) scheduled for the month before finally got underway after enough delegates from the colonies arrived to signify a quorum.

This vote has been judged illegitimate, since there was no quorum: only 44 of the 125 members took part in it ( all voted " for ").

Reed, however, declared that members who were in the chamber but refused to vote would still count for the purposes of determining a quorum.

Because of the deaths and imprisonments of Académie members during the occupation and other effects of the war, the Académie was unable to meet the quorum of twenty members for his election ; due to the exceptional circumstances, however, his unanimous election by the seventeen members present was accepted.

LDL lipoproteins interfere with the quorum sensing system that upregulates genes required for invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection.

In addition to being considered accountable for their actions from a religious perspective, B ' nai mitzvah may be counted towards a minyan ( prayer quorum ) and may lead prayer and other religious services in the family and the community.

shows both quorum sensing and quorum quenching activity.

Article I, Section 5, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution provides that " Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business ..." Therefore in both the House of Representatives and the Senate a quorum is a simple majority of their respective members.

By this ruling, in June 1875, both Hyde and Apostle Orson Pratt were moved down in quorum seniority.

Despite both referendums meeting the quorum, and a new first-past-the-post electoral system being used in Italian national elections from 1994 to 2001, the Berlusconi government in 2005 partially reinstated proportional representation under a new law.

Reports of a quorum and even vote totals for both bodies also appeared quickly in some newspapers.

The Missouri Statesman of January 31, 1862, offered coverage of Shambaugh's speech to constituents in which he claimed that the legislative quorum was fraudulent, with at best only 39 House members and 10 members of the Senate present at either Neosho or Cassville, and that the names of affirmative voting members were deliberately excluded from both House and Senate journals.

In both houses, while quorum calls officially last fifteen minutes, the actual amount of time given is at the discretion of the presiding officer.

With three vacancies in the quorum, George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney and McKay were called in the April 1906 General Conference of the church.

Alternatively, judges and state attorneys may be impeached, by a simple majority vote of a quorum of the General Assembly, for crimes or misconduct committed solely in their official capacity.

The legality of the Neosho secession ( even under Confederate law ) has been questioned by many historians who: question whether a proper quorum of the General Assembly was present ; note that the General Assembly had previously granted the power over secession action to the Constitutional Convention ; and note that under Missouri state law an Ordinance of Secession required confirmation by a plebiscite of the state's voters ( which never occurred ).

A motion to lower quorum from 500 to 250 passed with 77 %, and another resolution passed giving members of the society the ability to vote on future by-law changes by referenda as well as at General meetings, also passed.

These quorum members are called General Authorities.

Trading ventures began to run at a loss, there were allegations of corruption, the SRC suffered from in-fighting and frequent turnover, and for six consecutive years the TUU Annual General Meetings ( AGMs ) failed due to lack of quorum from the student body.

If the quorum requirement is not met, it is canceled and another Meeting called.

If it at that too a quorum is not met, a Third Meeting may be called and the members present, unlimited by the quorum, take all decisions.

The process is called quorum sensing.

( This was actually eight members less than a quorum, but, according to parliamentary rules, the quorum is enforceable only at the start of a sitting or when a member calls attention to it.

A distinction is made between individual prayer and communal prayer, which requires a quorum known as a minyan, with communal prayer being preferable as it permits the inclusion of prayers that otherwise must be omitted.

' Having said this, he and most of the members who had a right to sit in Parliament, withdrew from the House ; so that there was not the fourth part of a quorum of lawful members present in the House when the Secluded Members, who had been voted out of the Parliament by those that had an undisputed authority over their own members, undertook to dissolve the Parliament, which was not to be done, unless by their own consent ; and whether that consent was ever given, is submitted to the judgment of all impartial men.

This is popularly called the disappearing quorum.

" This means two-thirds of those members present — assuming that a quorum exists at the time that the vote is cast — and not necessarily a two-thirds vote of the entire membership elected and serving in the two houses of Congress.

It is during this colonization that the cells are able to communicate via quorum sensing using such products as AHL.

This is intended to ensure that the result is representative of the will of the electorate and is analogous to the quorum required in a committee or legislature.

In some denominations, the pastor is given no vote, however in a sitting body of an even number or with a quorum of the session counted she or he can break a tie with a casting vote.

It is designed to be less formal, with a quorum of only three members: the Deputy Speaker of the House, one government member, and one non-government member.

* On the second calendar day during which the Senate sits after the presentation of the petition, after the Senate has been sitting for one hour, a " quorum call " is undertaken to ensure that a majority of the Senators are present.

However, the mandatory quorum call is often waived by unanimous consent.

Normally there is a quorum of a half to start a session or to take any decision ( Article 67 ).

The majority vote that is required for this and the passage of resolutions or other measures is a majority of the entire actual membership of the county legislative body, and not a majority of the quorum, nor a majority of the authorized membership.

A quorum is twenty members.

Quorums were required for votes to be held, and it is known that in 67 BC the size of a quorum was set at 200 senators ( by the lex Cornelia de privilegiis ).

This is similar to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Hebrew Bible, where God told Abraham that he would spare the city of Sodom if there was a quorum of at least 10 righteous men.

Disrupting the signalling process in this way is called quorum inhibition.