Sentences with phrase «largely elected house»

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Elected on the back of a pledge to build 300,000 new homes each year, housing minister Harold Macmillan soon met and exceeded these targets, largely as the result of public sector rather than private sector construction.

An increase in the number of women in Albany has helped reshape the culture from an old boys» club, in which women were largely relegated to secretarial positions, to a more egalitarian environment, where women are not only elected to office, but have risen to acquire key chair positions in both houses and led the passage of women - friendly legislation.

Roland Watson, The Times» political editor, reports (#) that a group of Tory peers are ready to disrupt the Coalition's legislative programme if Cameron and Clegg press on with their plans for a largely elected Upper House:

Many - giving parliament the power over Britain going to war, a largely - elected House of Lords, «no» to ID cards and support for reform of the electoral system - seem designed to woo the Liberal Democrats as possible coalition partners.

The acrimony came on what was largely a ceremonial day for both the Senate and Assembly, as both houses formally elected their leaders and adopted the rules that will govern their activities.

At least five cabinet ministers have joined the Tory revolt over House of Lords reform, amid growing fears that proposals for a largely elected second chamber could destroy the coalition.

The difficulty is that the choice between a wholly or largely (hybrid) elected House is not one of degree, but one of kind.

The concern of others is that as an elected House would challenge the Commons more aggressively, this would necessarily require more regular use of the Parliament Acts in the future as the traditional (largely co-operative) relationship between the two Houses adapted to a new constitutional landscape.

Although the House of Commons voted by a significant majority in favour of a fully elected House of Lords, the issue is complicated by the fact that it also voted for the contradictory option of a largely elected hybrid House of Lords.