10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAKE THE CHAIR»
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1
A Collection of Confusible Phrases
... very high quality and unlikely to be surpassed: Perhaps the most wonderful
place on earth (though I am told on good authority that the souvenir shop at
Graceland takes some beating) has to be Niagara falls. take a chair take the chair
take a ...
2
The Congressional Globe
Then I will not take the chair i gain. The SPEAKER. The Chairman will resume the
chair. Mr. SUTHERLAND. After what has fallen from the □nember, I will not take
the chair. Mr. EVERETT moved that the House adjourn. Lost, without a division.
United States. Congress, Francis Preston Blair, John Cook Rives, 1836
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).
Lord Lorton will take the Chair at Twelve o'clock. CHURCH MISSIONARY
SOCIETY. May 3, ( Monday Evening. The Sermon will be preached at St. Bride's
Church, Fleet Street, by the Dean of Salisbury. Service at half-past Six o'clock.
May 4 ...
4
Parlamentary Precedents: Being decisions of
the right ...
The House for their Speaker, and moves that such Member "do take the Chair of
this House as Speaker." when unop- 7. Such motion being seconded and
supported, MemberUCh ^ n0 other Member be proposed as Speaker, the called
to the ...
5
Allen's Indian Mail, and Register of Intelligence for ...
Afterwards Sir Henry said, " I will not take the chair on a vote of the proprietors,
but I claim it as a right." Mr. Hogg said, several Acts of Parliament gave the right to
the Chairman of the Company to preside at the meetings of the proprietors.
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New South Wales Legislative Council Practice
If the Chair wishes to leave the Chair in committee, any Temporary Chair may
take the Chair and, if no Temporary Chair is present, the Chair may appoint any
other member to take the Chair (SO 174). The Chair is the sole judge in all
matters ...
Lynn Lovelock, John Evans, 2008
7
The Veterinarian for 1844
... or if he shall be absent, or shall decline to take the chair, then one of the vice-
presidents to be elected at the meeting shall take the chair; or if they shall be all
absent, or such of them as shall be present shall decline to take the chair, then
one ...
Messrs. Youatt and percivall, 1844
8
A Summary Treatise of
the Practice and Proceedings in ...
When the Speaker may take the Chair. The Speaker cannot take the chair till
there be at Forty must be least forty members in the house ; a rule which holds
Present. both as to the number present when the Speaker takes the chair, and as
to ...
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The Parliamentary History of England from
the Earliest ...
1 917] Mahon to take the chair. Lord Mahon refused, as he intended to speak
against the Bill. Lord North was of opinion, that although the House forced the
Speaker to take the chair, still it would be exceed-' ingly hard to debar the noble
lord ...
Great Britain. Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard, 1815
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Labor and the LNP need to "grow up" and appoint a chair to the parliamentary ... "Someone else from the Opposition should take the chair and we say that's a ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
