Sentences with phrase «of second chamber»

Overall, subject to the above, the commission would have to have regard for the need to ensure that the size of the House of Lords did not exceed that of the House of Commons — this would result in a reduction in the membership of the second chamber.

Finally, the white paper proposes no changes to the powers of the second chamber.

They report the discovery of a second chamber within Rising Star with abundant H. naledi fossils, including one of the most complete skeletons of an early human ever found, as well as the remains of at least one child and another adult.

First, be clear about the purpose of the second chamber.

On the one hand, it implicitly considers the charge that the House of Lords is «undemocratic» to be insufficiently persuasive to warrant thoroughgoing reform of the second chamber.

Politics professor Meg Russell has clearly distinguished the various potential functions of a second chamber — representing different interests (regional or religious, for example); being more independent of the executive than the first chamber; acting as a «veto player», and performing different parliamentary duties such as more detailed scrutiny of legislation.

Those who promoted the Parliament Act 1911 at least perceived this point, as is evident from the preamble to the Act, which states that it was, in effect, intended to be a holding measure pending full - scale reform of the second chamber.

Though the events that prompted the review — in which the House of Lords derailed the government's changes to working tax credits — most obviously invite discussion of the unelected nature of the second chamber, they also highlight a deeper problem with our democratic system.

Perhaps one of the most promising of these is the creation of a second chamber composed of members of the public chosen by sortition — a processes whereby political representatives are selected by a lottery, similar to the method of jury selection.

Lord Strathclyde, the former long - serving leader of the Tory peers and former Leader of the House of Lords, was commissioned to lead an expert panel to review the powers of the second chamber.

The debate regarding reform often clouds the true function of the second chamber — legislative scrutiny — and it proves too tempting for governments to cry foul when they don't get their way.

When it comes to the House of Lords, the first question we should ask is what should the powers of the second chamber be?

There is literally nothing he could inflict on a paso doble that would be more wantonly humiliating than being part of a second chamber that includes the long - time anti-Lords campaigner Peter Hain — now Lord Hain.

If he refuses, then they have every right to block everything in every arcane way they can, refusing to stand by as bad laws are frogmarched through without the scrutiny and safeguards of a second chamber.

The Commons all - party joint committee on Lords reform is expected to call for any proposals on reform of the second chamber to be put to voters in a referendum.

A previous attempt to reform the Lords in 2003 failed when MPs failed to agree on how much of the second chamber should be elected and how much appointed.

Better options lie in reform of the second chamber, so that directly elected English representatives can scrutinise, revise or reject English legislation.

A joint committee of the two chambers will decide on the entire powers and structure of the second chamber, with members of both houses allowed a free vote on its proposals.

There will be plenty of time for effective and considered reform of the second chamber when Labour is back in government.

The committee is also expected to call for any proposals on reform of the second chamber to be put to voters in a referendum.

Labour is committed to replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions, to represent every part of the United Kingdom, and to improve the democratic legitimacy of the second chamber.

It also recommended that retirements from the Lords be considered: another constitutional innovation which has never, in all the centuries of the second chamber's history, been implemented.

The alternative report claims the government proposals for the election of a second chamber in its draft bill do not set out any proposals to limit its powers.

The amendment, to be debated next Wednesday, came as peers discussed a report by Lord Strathclyde into the power held by the Lords in the wake of the second chamber blocking government plans to cut # 4bn from working tax credits.

The other difference would be that parties could put forward members of the second chamber to stand on Committees.

Reformed second chamber should be 80 per cent or 100 per cent elected Bishops should not retain reserved places in a 100 per cent elected House Link between a peerage and place in the second chamber should be broken Government should not hold a majority in the second chamber No changes to the powers of the second chamber and the House of Commons should retain its primacy

Paragraph 10 of the White Paper states: «The Government believes that the powers of the second chamber and, in particular, the way in which they are exercised should not be extended and the primacy of the House of Commons should be preserved».

Only the UK and Lesotho have a system that allows some members of the second chamber to inherit their office.

Labour officials argue that the repeatedly thwarted plans for Lords reform get bogged down in uncertainty about the role of the second chamber.

I think it's fair to conclude that the scepticism about meddling with the composition of the second chamber exhibited yesterday from the Tory backbenches is representative of widespread opposition within the parliamentary party.

[i] «The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

In particular, it is suggested that the convention will consider (a) reform of the second chamber and (b) «how English MPs can have a greater role in the scrutiny of legislation that only affects England».

This catalogue of failure exposes the complexities of second chamber reform.

The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are `

[1] The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

The election results of 2015 have once again made manifest the absurdity of the composition of our second chamber.

Not exact matches

According to Brent Thompson, who heads Cushing's chamber of commerce, oil was discovered in the area in the 1930s, and those wells were responsible for supplying much of the U.S. military's needs during the Second World War.

Abolishing Canada's upper chamber of «sober second thought» will be hard, maybe even impossible.

The chamber voted 50 — 49 — calling on Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie vote for the second time that day — to install Brownback in the vacant State Department position, which monitors persecution and discrimination on a global scale through the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF).

We observe that at the lowest level of the evolutionary process, time is contingent in the sense that electronic and atomic radiations are short - lived, measured in millionths of a second; the movement is chaotic, diffused, haphazard, indeterminate as shown in the cloud chamber or the Brownian movement of molecules; the time is transient because entropy takes over; the movements are lost instead of being collected in the thing and perfective of the thing.

Then I read Chambers sometime this weekend, and he also says that knowing God in Christ is â $ œone amazing, glorious NOW!â $ This is the fullness of the moment, doxology, benediction, blessing, abundance, right now, this second.

They will ceremonially welcome him into the second chamber as of parliament and he will make maiden a speech in the future.

Of course there is a measure of ideological hype in such statements, but one can not help but be impressed with, for instance, the proposal that there should be a second chamber of the UN's General Assembly — a People's AssemblOf course there is a measure of ideological hype in such statements, but one can not help but be impressed with, for instance, the proposal that there should be a second chamber of the UN's General Assembly — a People's Assemblof ideological hype in such statements, but one can not help but be impressed with, for instance, the proposal that there should be a second chamber of the UN's General Assembly — a People's Assemblof the UN's General Assembly — a People's Assembly.

«We had two parties after the blessing and ribbon - cutting ceremony: one for local press and chambers that featured some of our popular items from each restaurant venue, and a second event for tribal members,» she says.

Aside from Montero tearing Chambers a new one, he had some outstanding performances for us, so much so that a lot of us were disappointed he seemed to disappear for the second half of the season.

The young Calum Chambers was used early on last season as cover, but his immaturity and propensity to get silly yellow cards saw him drop out of contention in the second half of the season, and it would appear that Wenger is more keen on using him on the right flank.

If its Cavalho, then Chambers becomes Vermaleen's replacement and Hector is coming of age as our second Right Back for the season (Jenkinson is still on our books though not available to us this season) and if its Sokratis, Chambers will become our holding / defensive midfielder.

The first goal chambers didn't get his head on a simple stoke's cross, the cross was only his head height and he wasn't under pressure, sure the ball had a bit of spin but it shouldn't have gone past the first man; the second goal mertersaker and chambers both ball watched and failed to track one runner into the box; the third goal chambers got out - muscled and rooted to the ground while walters jumped on top of him for a clean header, in the six yard box.

bellerin mustafi chambers... We have a non existent midfield and a series of overhyped youngsters... Iwobi, the French kid who was the next Henry maitland miles the polish kid who was the next viera... Etc etc... Some might still make it after loan spells in lower leagues but after 10 years of cheapskate mismanagement the rot runs deep and can no longer be treated with a polishing here and there... Your endless reference to FIFA 18 has lost even it's flippancy... The club has entered the second tier of the EPL and serious supporters need to get behind a campaign to remove wenger and kroenke before we go the way of leeds villa and forest... All clubs with wonderful pasts just like us

That seems to have been the ideal chance for the young defender and he has grabbed it to such an extent that he is now in front of Calum Chambers in the pecking order, having been chosen to partner Laurent Koscielny when the France international returned to face Leicester City in our second Premier League game of the season last weekend.