Voting takes place in silence, with no formal debate, until a decision is reached.
She could not even secure the backing required for a formal debate (30 delegates out of some 3, 000).
You keep saying that you expect to begin a debate, and you say you expect a formal debate to begin.
The formal debate, between now and the real election campaign, may centre on the merits of low taxes or higher public spending.
Martin lifted eyebrows later when MPs demanded a formal debate about his tenure and he was forced to consult with parliamentary clerks to check on procedure.
Look, I think -- I think the President looks at today's meeting, as I talked about yesterday, as a continuation of a process that he hopes will result in this process becoming a more formal legislative debate later in the year.
Most observers say the more formal style of debate might favor Gore, while the less-formal model could give Bush an advantage.
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George Osborne, the UK chancellor who led frantic diplomatic efforts to blunt the curbs, must now decide whether to force a debate or a formal vote at a meeting of finance ministers next week.
Mr Latham's earlier pledges to make a formal apology to aborigines and to restart the debate on an Australian republic have barely featured in his campaign.
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In India in 1980, Indira Gandhi removed shackles from enterprises and began sending pro-business signals, a decade before more formal reforms (although there is a hot debate about which set of policies mattered most).
As with the debate on the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, formal Senate consideration of the Wallop amendment was, to say the least, superficial.
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The debate was held ahead of the publication of formal reform plans by the Commission in November, of how the CAP should be financed after 2013.
This latest research adds to the debate over when children should begin to be attend schools or formal playgroups.
Or to put it another way, the practicalities of whether RBS and Lloyds could continue to be Scottish banks are intricately bound up in a separate, hugely important, debate - which is whether Scotland would be part of a formal sterling zone, with the Bank of England as central bank for a separated Scotland.
Prime Minister David Cameron led the debate on 7 March 2012 proposing "an humble address" - a formal communication from Parliament to the Queen - to celebrate 60 years of her reign.
However the debate - used by unions and local parties to make a point - has no formal role in party policy.
It was eventually agreed, for example, that, behind the formal gun carriage bearing the coffin, the mourners should wear lounge suits not uniforms, although a ludicrous debate persisted as to whether Elton John, a friend of the princess, should sing at the service.
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