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Referring to Erskine May, Parliament's ancient and respected rule book, he said MPs should never be asked to vote again on the same proposition if they had already "negatived" it during the current Parliamentary session.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2019
With gentle but resolute firmness, His Majesty negatived this proposal, hailed a passing motorist who, overwhelmed, obeyed with alacrity a royal command that he convey Miss Betts to her residence in Uxbridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to the pianoforte, and after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead the way, which the other as politely and more earnestly negatived, she seated herself.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Mr. Gibson's motion in Parliament to abolish all taxes on knowledge; bearing of these taxes; motion negatived; evasion of the excise on paper by the publisher of the "Greenock Newscloth," 124.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
The French officers much preferred acting on an independent line, but the proposal was wisely negatived by the commander in chief.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
