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Previous question   /prˈiviəs kwˈɛstʃən/   Listen
Previous question

noun
1.
A motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly.





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"Previous question" Quotes from Famous Books



... the internal improvements needed for the development of the West brought him in opposition to a powerful element in his own party. Adams, writing in his diary under date of April 17, 1844, says: "The Western harbor bill was taken up, and the previous question was withdrawn for the homunculus Douglas to poke out a speech in favor of the constitutionality of appropriations for the improvement of Western rivers and harbors. The debate was continued between the conflicting absurdities of the Southern Democracy, ...
— Stephen Arnold Douglas • William Garrott Brown
... forth his royal proclamation, to cause the penal laws to be put in execution against all dissenters from the Church of England whatsoever." But upon the report of the House, the question of agreeing with the committee was evaded by a previous question, and the House, with equal unanimity, resolved: "That this House doth acquiesce, and entirely rely, and rest wholly satisfied, on his majesty's gracious word, and repeated declaration to support and defend the religion ...
— A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second • Charles James Fox
... being Loamsnire men, Mr. Casson had the laugh strongly against him, and wisely fell back on the previous question, which, far from being exhausted in a single evening, was renewed in the churchyard, before service, the next day, with the fresh interest conferred on all news when there is a fresh person to hear it; and that fresh hearer was Martin Poyser, who, as his wife said, ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot


Words linked to "Previous question" :   parliamentary law, motion, order, rules of order, gesture, parliamentary procedure


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