Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of representatives " in BNC.
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| 31 | Edward R. Madigan , a member of the House of Representatives for 18 years , was nominated to replace Yeutter as Agriculture Secretary . |
| 32 | Chatichai , leader of the Chart Thai Party and a member of the House of Representatives , had served as Prime Minister since 1988 [ see pp. 36149-50 ] . |
| 33 | The President is chosen by an electoral college composed of 50 members of the House of Assembly , 25 members of the House of Representatives and 13 from the House of Delegates [ see pp. 36880-81 ] . |
| 34 | In mid-November votes from the PAICF members secured the election of Abdel-Latif Arabiyat of the Moslem Brotherhood as Speaker of the House of Representatives . |
| 35 | Democratic party leaders were already piloting their own education bill through Congress , and Richard Gephardt , Democratic leader of the House of Representatives , gave Bush 's proposals a lukewarm response , describing them as " tinkering at the margins " . |
| 36 | A United States congressman , Mervyn Dymally , chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee on Africa , visited Liberia in early May and urged Amos Sawyer , interim President of Liberia [ see p. 38134 ] , and Taylor to attend new peace talks in Abidjan , Côte d'Ivoire , on May 23 . |
| 37 | The Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives , Tom Foley , described the allegations as " very serious " , and stated that he and his colleagues were considering initiating a formal investigation into the affair . |
| 38 | The foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives heard evidence from Sick and Bani-Sadr . |
| 39 | Koirala announced a new Cabinet on May 29 which included one woman ( Sailja Acharya ) and only one person who not been elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Basu Dev Risal ) . |
| 40 | Kabbia was among 10 members of the House of Representatives who were later suspended from the APC by the party 's governing council " pending further investigations into their conduct " . |
| 41 | Democrat members of the House of Representatives on July 11 elected David E. Bonior as Majority Whip , the party 's third-ranking leadership position within the lower chamber of the US legislature . |
| 42 | The Senate , reduced from 114 to 100 seats , was to be elected nationally rather than by departments ; each of the 32 departments would elect a minimum of two members of the House of Representatives , reduced from 199 to 160 seats , with further seats allotted to each department on the basis of population . |
| 43 | Of the 60 members , 35 were elected by the members of the House of Representatives , 15 were selected from the country 's five development zones and 10 were directly appointed by King Birendra [ see p. 38193 for May election of House of Representatives ] . |
| 44 | A United States congressional panel of Democratic members of the House of Representatives chaired by John . |
| 45 | The only member of the House of Representatives representing the new party was Jim Anderton , leader and founder of the NLP in 1989 . |
| 46 | A Moslem Brotherhood deputy , Abdel-Latif Arabiyat , retained his post as Speaker of the House of Representatives . |
| 47 | The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives budget committee , Leon E. Panetta , described the package as " gimmickry " and accused the administration of using " smoke and mirrors " in order to finance its tax cuts and spending initiatives . |
| 48 | Approval of the loan was aided by the decision of the House of Representatives on Dec. 19 to pass legislation raising 1992 federal taxes to bring in US$12,000 million in extra revenue . |
| 49 | He left the ruling Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino ( LDP — Democratic Filipino Struggle Party ) after a straw poll on Nov. 30 — which he claimed had been rigged — had chosen Ramon Mitra , the Speaker of the House of Representatives , as the LDP presidential candidate . |
| 50 | In addition to the posts of President and Vice-President , the May elections were also scheduled to choose 24 senators , 200 members of the House of Representatives , and thousands of local politicians including mayors and provincial governors . |
| 51 | The announcement was followed by the dissolution of the House of Representatives on Feb. 17 . |
| 52 | A banking scandal developed during March when it was revealed that more than 300 current members of the House of Representatives had abused the House bank by writing cheques which their accounts did not have sufficient funds to honour . |
| 53 | On April 17 the ethics committee of the House of Representatives issued a " full disclosure " of the House banking scandal which had become popularly dubbed as the " Rubbergate " affair [ see p. 38807 ] . |
| 54 | The first session of the House of Representatives on April 15 was cut short after Suchinda was subjected to a barrage of opposition criticism . |
| 55 | On May 9 the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Arthit Urairat , announced that the government and opposition parties had agreed on a number of constitutional revisions , including one which would bar a non-elected person , such as Suchinda , from becoming Prime Minister . |
| 56 | Other changes agreed were a reduction in the powers of the appointed ( and military-dominated ) Senate ; the appointment of the House of Representatives Speaker rather than the Senate Speaker as president of the National Assembly ; and an enhancement of the powers of the representatives . |
| 57 | The Speaker of the House of Representatives , Tom Foley , suggested that the measure violated " the principle of contemporaneous consideration by the states " . |
| 58 | He left the ruling Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino ( LDP — Democratic Filipino Struggle Party ) after he was defeated for the party 's presidential nomination by Ramon Mitra , the Speaker of the House of Representatives . |
| 59 | He was nominated for the post of Prime Minister by the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Arthit Urairat . |
| 60 | The bill , which was likely to be considered by the full Senate after the summer recess , was similar to that which had been approved by the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives on June 30 . |