Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of deputies " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outgoing Foreign Minister , Adrian Nastase , was elected president of the Assembly of Deputies . |
| 2 | A parliamentary deputy since 1953 , he was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies in 1969 and from this post was elected President in 1978 at the age of 81 . |
| 3 | The President , Vice-Presidents and the Senate are elected nationally while members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by constituencies under a system of proportional representation . |
| 4 | Under an agreement reached on March 2 , 1990 , between the CPD and the conservative Independent Democratic Union ( Unión Democrática Independiente — UDI ) , representatives of pro-Aylwin parties would occupy the posts of president of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate . |
| 5 | The Justicialist Party ( Partido Justicialista — the formal name for the Peronists ) won control of the Chamber of Deputies in elections on May 14 , 1989 [ see pp. 36651-52 ] , and the Peronist presidential candidate Carlos Saúl Menem was elected to succeed Alfonsín in December 1989 . |
| 6 | Following the resignation of Ernst Pedro Casseus as president of the Chamber of Deputies ( lower house of parliament ) after disagreements over his decision to suspend the session , Duly Brutus was unanimously elected as the chamber 's new president on Aug. 20 . |
| 7 | The third stage included provisions for : ( i ) direct elections to the Flemish and Walloon regional assemblies ; ( ii ) reform of the national parliament and especially the Senate which effectively duplicated the work of the Chamber of Deputies without acting as counterweight to it ; and ( iii ) defining the foreign policy prerogatives of the regions of Brussels , Flanders and Wallonia . |
| 8 | Domenico Sica , the High Commissioner responsible for co-ordinating the fight against the Mafia , delivered a lengthy report to the Constitutional Commission of the Chamber of Deputies in June 1990 , in which he gave a precise assessment of the scale of the problem represented by the Mafia . |
| 9 | The decision , which upheld that of the Chamber of Deputies in August [ see p. 38387 ] , was subject to ratification by the Attorney General 's Office , and meant that García could now be tried as an ordinary civilian on charges of " illicit personal enrichment " over 14 years in public office . |
| 10 | However , an Afar member of the Chamber of Deputies , Mohammed Issa Cheicko , claimed on Dec. 18 that 26 men and four women had been killed after police fired indiscriminately into a group of about 100 people whom they had arrested . |
| 11 | Seventeen Afar deputies walked out of the Chamber of Deputies on Dec. 23 and demanded talks between the government and the armed opposition . |
| 12 | Some 31,760,000 Italians ( 67 per cent of the 47,400,000 electorate ) voted in a general election on April 5-6 to select the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elected members of the Senate . |
| 13 | As the new parliamentary session began on April 23 the leading parties negotiated over who was to fill the posts of president of the Senate and leader of the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 14 | The assassination on May 23 of a leading anti-Mafia judge , Giovanni Falcone [ see below ] , shocked public opinion and galvanized the political parties into breaking the deadlock over the election of a successor to President Francesco Cossiga , and on May 25 the Christian Democrat ( CD ) Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies , Oscar Luigi Scalfaro , was elected . |
| 15 | In the two ballots held on May 17 it was discovered that some voters had voted twice , and Scalfaro , the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies since April [ see p. 38870 ] , ordered that the voting regulations should immediately be amended ; deputies would be handed a single voting slip as they entered a specially constructed voting booth . |
| 16 | A PDS deputy , Giorgio Napolitano , was elected as Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies on June 3 — an important preliminary to the appointment of a Prime Minister and a new government . |
| 17 | On June 2 Stefano Rodota , president of the PDS and former Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies , resigned from both posts after he was unsuccessful in the first four ballots for Speaker . |
| 18 | On Sept. 1 , they presented a petition for Collor 's removal to Ibsen Pinheiro , the leader of the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 19 | At the constituent session of the Chamber of Deputies , Stipe Mesic was elected its President and thus President of the Croatian Assembly , since no law governing elections to the second chamber , the Chamber of Districts , had yet been passed . |
| 20 | Napoleon III carried on an active personal diplomacy , not merely without the knowledge of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate , but behind the backs of his own ministers . |
| 21 | In July 1940 , following France 's military defeat and occupation by the German army , Tixier-Vignancour was one of the majority of deputies who abolished the Third Republic and voted plenary powers to Marshal Petain . |
| 22 | The vote put an end to speculation that the new administration , sworn in on June 19 [ see p. 38311 ] , might not win the approval of the majority of deputies . |
| 23 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 24 | On Feb. 20 Rubio had given evidence to the economic commission of the Congress of Deputies . |
| 25 | On Sept. 4 , 5 and 7 , because of the absence of deputies from Khodjent , there was no quorum to confirm a Sept. 2 resolution by the Supreme Soviet Presidium on removing Nabiyev from power , Nabiyev having gone into hiding at the end of August after demonstrators invaded the Presidential Palace , demanding his resignation . |
| 26 | A proposal for constitutional reform to allow a national plebiscite on the reintroduction of the death penalty in Brazil , for kidnappings , burglaries and rapes resulting in the victim 's death , was approved by a Congressional Commission of the House of Deputies in December 1990 . |
| 27 | The president of the House of Deputies of the Congress , Carlos Dupre , on Nov. 28 ordered an official investigation to verify the authenticity of a letter attributed to " various military chiefs " which called on former President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces , to resign . |