Example sentences of "of the [noun] of representatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to electing the 212 members of the Chamber of Representatives ( lower house of parliament ) , voters also elected the 106 directly elected members of the 184-member Senate ( upper house ) . |
| 2 | The referendum , put forward by Ramon Mitra , the speaker of the House of Representatives , was backed by Cardinal Jaime Sin . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Chicago was reminded that defeating an incumbent member of the House of Representatives is not easy . |
| 6 | But as Phil Sharp , chairman of the House of Representatives Energy Committee , gloomily acknowledges , it would also remove the pressure for an energy strategy . |
| 7 | When Congress assembled the Speaker of the House of Representatives asked Hall to give the opening prayer and on a Sunday he preached before both Houses in the Capitol building . |
| 8 | Mr Conjuanco 's other main rival is his friend , Mr Ramon Mitra , former Speaker of the House of Representatives . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Thus Lee Hamilton , chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee , speaking on CNN . |
| 11 | Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it . |
| 12 | The good news , on May 13th , was that the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives passed the taxation part of the president 's economic proposals . |
| 13 | The proposal ran smack into the powerful beer lobby in Congress , including Richard Gephardt , majority leader of the House of Representatives , whose district in St Louis includes the giant Anheuser-Busch brewery . |
| 14 | On May 24th 146 American congressmen , over a third of the House of Representatives , sent a letter urging him ‘ to clearly exercise civilian authority over the armed forces ’ . |
| 15 | At the end of the first session of the 97th Congress , Helen Dewar reported in the Washington Post : Even one of Reagan 's severest critics , Tip O'Neill , the former Speaker of the House of Representatives , does not underestimate Reagan 's early achievements : ‘ ( He ) pushed through the greatest increase in defense spending in American history together with the greatest cutbacks in domestic programs and the largest tax cuts the country has ever seen . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Bills introduced in the US by the chairman of the House of Representatives Intellectual Property Subcommittee and his Senate counterpart proposing changes to the 1976 Copyright Act are being strongly opposed by the Librarian of Congress , James Billington , and by the Register of Copyrights , Ralph Oman , reports Publishers Weekly . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Gingrich had been the first to lay formal charges which had led to the resignation on June 6 of the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Jim Wright [ see p. 36650 ] , and it was widely believed that his own investigation had been initiated in revenge in April by Representative Bill Alexander ( Dem. , Arkansas ) who on Oct. 26 filed new charges against Gingrich for alleged misuse of campaign funds and of congressional stationery . |
| 21 | The Speaker of the House of Representatives , Thomas S. Foley ( Dem. , Washington ) , stated his opposition to any amendment of the Bill of Rights , however , arguing that the issue of flag burning was not so important as to make it " worth tampering with the most important repository of personal liberty that any country has ever established in its history " . |
| 22 | US Secretary of State James Baker , addressing the foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives on June 13 , said that the stance of the new government could be summed up as " there will be no dialogue unless the Palestinians accept our position in advance " . |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | On July 3 Doe had reportedly agreed to resign at the request of a deputation of his remaining allies , including Vice-President Harry Moniba and Samuel Hill , the Speaker of the House of Representatives ( parliament ) , on condition that his own safety and that of the Khran people was assured . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In late July the parallel committee of the House of Representatives had also agreed upon a much-reduced defence bill upon which the House was due to vote after the summer recess . |
| 27 | In an address to the foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives on Sept. 4 , Baker reiterated the aims which Bush had outlined in August [ see p. 37638 ] . |
| 28 | The UNC had the support of six members of the House of Representatives compared with three for the official opposition PNM . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They also called for wider consultations , and a meeting between the US Department of the Interior and the Belau Olbil era Kelulau ( OEK — National Congress , consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate ) to discuss the document was scheduled for September 1990 . |