Just before the Board lost a quorum, the five Members agreed to delegate their authority to a three-person panel ( as provided for by the National Labor Relations Act ).

Only two of the members of the panel ( Liebman and Schaumber ) would remain on the Board, but the Board concluded that these two members constituted a quorum of the panel and thus could make decisions on behalf of the entire Board.

Formal action can be taken only when the Board is in session with a quorum of at least half of the Trustees.

Citizenship could be granted by the assembly and was sometimes given to large groups ( Plateans in 427 BC, Samians in 405 BC ) but, by the 4th century, only to individuals and by a special vote with a quorum of 6000.

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.

( 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.

By the terms of the Honduran constitution, this stalemate left the final choice of president up to the legislature, but that body was unable to obtain a quorum and reach a decision.

' 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.

The person whose pile contained the most ostraka would be banished, provided that an additional criterion of a quorum was met, about which there are two principal sources:

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

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

" Czar Reed ", as he was called by his opponents, sought to end the obstruction of bills by the minority, in particular by countering the tactic known as the " disappearing 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.

As 24 % attendance was considered sufficient for a quorum, Henry succeeded, through much debate, in getting his proposal passed.

That day there was no quorum in the parliament and therefore the voting did not continue.

The chapel was dedicated in 1891 by Reed Smoot, a member of the quorum of the twelve apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Like modern quorum calls, this was usually a delaying tactic.

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 ).

The disappearing quorum was a tactic used by the minority until an 1890 rule eliminated it.

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.

At age 51 he was the youngest apostle in the quorum at the time and the youngest man to be called to the quorum since Boyd K. Packer, who was called in 1970 at age 45.

" 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.

Democrats, led by Charles Crisp ( who succeeded Reed as Speaker in the next two Congresses ), then declared that the absence of a quorum ( 179 Representatives ) prevented the House from making decisions.

On April 8, 1789, two days after the Senate achieved its first quorum, members elected Otis as their chief legislative, financial, and administrative officer.

The resignation of three of the five Directors prevented a quorum and thus practically abolished the Directory, but the two Jacobin Directors, Gohier and Moulin, continued to protest furiously.

The Chairman in 1915, Senator Jacob H. Gallinger of New Hampshire, who two years earlier had elected a whip to maintain a quorum to conduct Senate business.

The first secretary was chosen on April 8, 1789, two days after the Senate achieved its first quorum for business at the beginning of the 1st United States Congress.

When this proposal was rejected, they walked out of the chamber and left the Senate two members short of a quorum.

Davis also speculated that sexism was involved, stating, " Doubters also questioned whether a woman could gain the full confidence of a quorum of men from the federal government and two elite philanthropies, institutions whose wealth exceeded the gross national product of entire countries ".

Any two judges constituted a quorum.

A quorum for meetings is the Governor-General and two serving ministers or parliamentary secretaries.

If the Governor-General is not in attendance, quorum is the Vice-President and two serving ministers or parliamentary secretaries.

Despite the clear possibility of merging the date of the two electoral consultations, most ruling governments will set a separate date for referendum, as merging the two votes would almost guarantee the quorum being met.

The court needed a quorum of two to operate and members were appointed to seven-year terms by the governor with the consent of the senate.

This increased the number of circuits to four and thus expanded the bench to four justices, but left the quorum at two.

Each circuit court was composed initially of two Supreme Court justices and the district judge of the district, although in 1793 Congress provided that a quorum of one justice and one district judge could hold a court.

Because of differences in procedure between the two bodies, quorum calls in the House are fairly rare, but they are quite common in the Senate.

A quorum president, along with two counselors, is called and set apart under the direction of the stake presidency, and generally serves for one to three years, although there is no official policy on the length of service.

The Presidency of the Church ( commonly called the First Presidency ) is a quorum consisting of at least one apostle ( the President of the Church ) and two or more high priests.

This quorum consists of the Presiding Bishop and two counselors, who hold priesthood keys to direct the temporal affairs and finances of the church, in conjunction with the First Presidency and Twelve.

The Bishop typically calls two " assistants " to oversee the day-to-day affairs of the quorum.