Sentences with phrase «largest second chamber»

The Lords is the largest second chamber in the world.

The House of Lords currently has 789 Members which makes it the largest second chamber in the world.

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Second chambers are common in large, complex political systems; but their central purpose — to challenge the government and elected first chamber — makes them controversial.

Only after establishing that can anyone honestly decide how much legitimacy the second chamber should have: how large its elected element and how solid its array of powers.

Astorino, who is contemplating a second run for governor in 2018, urged Republicans in the chamber to take a more assertive posture on policy with Cuomo and Democrats in Albany writ large.

It is the only second chamber in the democratic world which is larger than its respective first chamber.

It is already the second - largest chamber in the world — only the National People's Assembly of China can compete.

Its 809 members make the Lords the second largest parliamentary chamber in the world, just behind the Chinese National People's Congress.

It pumps 20 liters (about 5.3 gallons) of seawater and plankton per second through a «light tight» collection chamber large enough to capture even fast swimmers and keep them inside long enough for the device's fiber - optic instruments to record and measure, in photons per liter, the size, duration, and number of an organism's flashes.

Particularly important in the season's discoveries were a buried vaulted chamber that has proven to be an unusual finished bathroom (with bathtub) adjacent to a large below - ground ritual cleansing pool (mikveh)-- only the fourth bathroom to be found in Israel from the Second Temple period, with two of the others found in palaces of Herod the Great at Jericho and Masada.

Beneath the previously known magma chamber, there's a second, larger reservoir with enough hot goo to fill the Grand Canyon 11.2 times.

Both LIGO and VIRGO are the world's largest precision optical instruments and second - largest vacuum chambers (only the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland surpasses them).

There are separate (smaller) chambers for on - road compression and for rebound; the largest chamber is for off - road big bumps, with a second valve (non-DSSV) on the front shocks for when the ZR2 returns to earth from a big launch.

Dean's Blue Hole is said to be the deepest blue hole in the world, and the second largest underwater chamber.

In addition to a sunken garden, the building also contains a beautiful Mural Room on the second floor with two large chandeliers hanging over the chamber.

The Chickamauga Suite is a large, light and airy suite with tall windows on three sides of the chamber and lovely views from the second level of the Inn.

The second part consists of six delicately colored pencil drawings which are designed to look like hand colored postcards and depict views of the hospitals in Germany and Austria where the T4 Euthanasia programme took place between 1939 and 1941, whilst the third part consists of five large scale oil paintings which display the insides of Nazi Gas Chambers.

The second part of our Australia in Focus feature in the July / August Legal IT Insider, Corrs Chambers Westgarth has become the first large Australian firm to go live with NetDocuments» document management system and email as it also completes the final stage of a four year move to entirely open plan working.