Example sentences of "member of the house of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Michael Latham presented a Bill to abolish the General Synod of the Church of England , on a date to be appointed ; to provide for the creation of a Church of England Assembly , consisting of a house of all diocesan , suffragan and assistant bishops , and a joint house of clergy and laity , to be directly elected by all Church of England clergy and lay persons on parochial electoral rolls ; to make provision for the Diocese of Sodor and Man ; to empower the Assembly to decide on all appropriate matters , except those within the legal responsibilities of the Church Commissioners , without further reference to Parliament ; to provide for the election of new bishops by members of the house of bishops , saving the right of final approval of the chosen candidate by the Crown ; to abolish the Ecclesiastical Committee ; to abolish the automatic places of bishops in the House of Lords ; to permit ordained clergy of the Church of England , with the consent of a diocesan bishop , to seek election to the House of Commons ; and for connected purposes : |
| 2 | On December 27th 110 of the 267 Democratic members of the House of Representatives signed a letter written by George Miller , a Californian Democrat who came into Congress in 1974 as part of the post-Vietnam wave of liberals . |
| 3 | The Founding Fathers declared that an ‘ enumeration ’ should take place every ten years so that members of the House of Representatives can be fairly apportioned among the states . |
| 4 | In the United States the vote for the President is cast separately to those for members of The House of Representatives ( lower house ) and The Senate ( upper house ) . |
| 5 | Tip O'Neill is instructive on the differences between the two administrations in these matters : Being ‘ helped out ’ in one 's district was a matter of the greatest importance to members of the House of Representatives , the forum where Reagan 's legislative strategists would face their severest test . |
| 6 | The President is elected for four years , but members of the House of Representatives have to face election every two years , while a senator is elected for six years . |
| 7 | F. W. de Klerk was sworn in on Sept. 20 , 1989 , as the new executive President , chosen on Sept. 14 ( following elections on Sept. 6 to all three houses of the tricameral Parliament ) 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 ] . |
| 8 | The UNC had the support of six members of the House of Representatives compared with three for the official opposition PNM . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | A United States congressional panel of Democratic members of the House of Representatives chaired by John . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two members of the House of Representatives , Laith Shbeilat and Yaqoub Qarrash , both independent Islamists , were arrested in late August and subsequently charged , along with two other people , with plotting to overthrow the government and having links with foreign powers . |
| 18 | The controversial trial of Laith Shbeilat and Yaqoub Qarrash , two independent Islamist members of the House of Representatives charged with plotting to overthrow the government , continued during October [ see p. 39118 for start of trial in September ] . |
| 19 | On Nov. 4 voters also chose 14 senators from among 46 candidates and 16 members of the House of Representatives from among 37 candidates . |
| 20 | On Nov. 10 Laith Shbeilat and Yaqoub Qarrash , both members of the House of Representatives , were sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty by the State Security Court of membership of the banned Shabab al-Nafeer al-Islami ( Islamic Vanguard Youth ) and of possessing illegal weapons [ see pp. 39118 ; 39166 ] . |
| 21 | ** In the US , legislation proposed by 25 members of the House of Representatives called on President Bill Clinton to initiate " high-level discussions " with the British government with a view to halting the THORP project . |
| 22 | Chicago was reminded that defeating an incumbent member of the House of Representatives is not easy . |
| 23 | Robert Garcia , a Democratic member of the House of Representatives for New York , resigned his seat on Jan. 7 shortly before being sentenced for his role in the Wedtech corruption case . |
| 24 | A federal Appeals Court of the Second Circuit on July 29 overturned the convictions against Robert Garcia , a former member of the House of Representatives , and his wife Jane Lee Garcia . |
| 25 | The loss of documents would prove a severe problem for officials in the short term , and ten days after the fire Lawrence Gibbs , a Grenada United Labour Party ( GULP ) member of the House of Representatives , joined the ruling NDC to show " national unity " , thus reducing GULP 's representation to two . |
| 26 | Edward R. Madigan , a member of the House of Representatives for 18 years , was nominated to replace Yeutter as Agriculture Secretary . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | The only member of the House of Representatives representing the new party was Jim Anderton , leader and founder of the NLP in 1989 . |
| 30 | He was replaced by Edelmiro Amante , a member of the House of Representatives . |