How to Use quorum in a Sentence

quorum

noun

• We need five people to make a quorum.
• That vote took place but the committee did not have a quorum.
  — Marc Caputo, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2023
• The group has struggled to get a quorum because of six unfilled seats.
  — oregonlive, 29 Apr. 2022
• That brought the total number to the required two-thirds of members present for a quorum.
  — Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
• The quorum percentage decreased over the next few months.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
• If a quorum of four were present, state law would have required the meetings to be held in public.
  — Lance Williams By, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Nov. 2021
• That would leave just two of the five members voting on the deal, short of the quorum required in the nonprofit’s bylaws.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022
• The commission would still have a quorum of three members to have a meeting.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
• No quorum, so all board members were given a one-year term.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2021
• The appeals board had been without quorum for some time and her case has been languishing, the ACLU said.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
• So when a quorum returned to the Senate floor on June 15, hundreds of bills were ready for final votes.
  — oregonlive, 25 June 2023
• The House had a quorum as of 6:13 p.m. local time after several more Democrats returned to the floor.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• The requirement is two-thirds of all present and voting when a quorum is present, not two-thirds of all the senators.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 2 Nov. 2021
• The death this week of the board’s vice chair, Malcolm L. Funn, means all four remaining board members must be present to reach a quorum.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• The board had achieved a quorum and could legally meet that night only because Rodriguez had shown up at the last minute.
  — Claire Bryan, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Aug. 2022
• The committee is not required to have a quorum of its members to hold a meeting.
  — al, 3 Mar. 2023
• On Thursday, the House achieved its first quorum in months with the return of three Democratic members.
  — Emily Caldwell, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2021
• The pair believed the meeting could not proceed without a five-member quorum required by the board’s rules.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2023
• Six hours later, the vote passed by 97.5% with just enough participation to meet the 1% quorum.
  — Danny Nelson, Fortune, 28 June 2022
• Young, a former state delegate, said there was a quorum but the call was above board because the council does not oversee the jail.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
• At that point in time later this fall, the housing authority's board will be able to have a quorum, Scott said.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2023
• The motion received one vote in favor and one vote against before the meeting ended because of the lack of quorum.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• After a prayer and the pledge of allegiance, a quorum call will check the attendance of lawmakers.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
• Those posts did not involve a quorum of the body and there was no violation, Brandt-Erichsen found.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2022
• At one point, three Democratic members stormed out of a meeting to prevent a quorum.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• House Democrats broke quorum for 38 days this summer to stop the legislature from passing the election bill.
  — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 31 Aug. 2021
• The Republican walkout denied Democrats the quorum necessary to vote on the bill.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive Politics Team, oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2021
• The move paved the way for Republicans to establish a quorum, and set off a round of finger-pointing and backbiting among Democrats in the state.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• Reading from the Torah and saying certain prayers, including the kaddish, or mourner’s prayer, must take place in a group with a quorum of 10, known as a minyan.
  — Religion News Service, oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2022
• The vote failed because their recusals – and Murray’s no vote – meant the port commission lacked a quorum in favor of approval.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024