Chairman Peter Freitag said the association passed the resolution in support of Mr Ashdown at a general meeting.

For the second consecutive day the association overwhelmingly passed reform and cost-cutting measures.

The association passed a resolution in 1986 calling for a moratorium on private prisons.

The association passed a resolution during its annual meeting in Washington in January urging Congress to guarantee ready access to computerized Federal information.

All the events and associations of my life passed rapidly through my brain.

Earlier this year, an association of county election officials passed a resolution urging the state to wait until 2009 to install new electronic voting machines.

The association of the mother and the umbilical cord with the spider, who spins a thread out of her own body, has not passed unnoticed.

The association, which represents 6,500 jail administrators, has also passed a resolution endorsing bans on smoking by inmates.

The association in 2009 passed a resolution mandating all optometrists wanting to be members to write a professional exam.

The association between the region and illicit alcohol has passed into New Zealand folklore.