Sentences with phrase «upper house of»

The Supreme Court is a wholly independent court of appeal which further separates the powers exercised by the judiciary and the upper house of parliament in the UK.

«Sir, — I should perhaps confirm for the avoidance of doubt that, as my title implies, I am a Peer of the Realm, a member of the House of Lords or House of Peers or upper House of the UK Legislature, and a member of the Peerage of the United Kingdom, albeit without the right to sit or vote (a right which I do not pretend to possess).

Legislation for it is stuck in the Senate, the upper house of parliament, where Labor lacks a majority.

Germany passes new cultural protection law The upper house of the German parliament today passed the Cultural Property Protection Law, a controversial new bill intended to combat the trafficking of art and antiquities, and to safeguard national treasures.

Senators at the upper house of the French Parliament have come together to approve of a bill that would make it illegal for online retailers to offer free home delivery.

Treatments in Germany involving adult stem cells will be more closely regulated after revision of Germany's medical products law received final approval by the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament.

Because the law doesn't directly affect state policy, it does not need the approval of the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house of parliament, which is controlled by the opposition Christian Democratic Party.

He resigned from RIKEN earlier this year and on 12 July was elected to the upper house of Japan's Diet.

The Florida State Senate is the upper house of the Florida Legislature, which is the state legislature of Florida.

Some critics have argued that Mr. Cuomo — who reportedly facilitated the arrangement between the GOP and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to maintain control of the upper house of the legislature — created the Women's Equality Party as a means to siphon support away from the Working Families Party, in order to deny them the 50,000 votes needed to remain on the ballot.

For all the political advantages New York Democrats have enjoyed in recent years, they never succeeded for any length of time in ruling the upper house of the State Legislature.

A parliamentary report on House of Lords reform recommended an upper house of 450 members serving for 15 - year non-renewable terms, with 80 % of members elected and 20 % nominated.

The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature.

Mr. de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, dedicated substantial resources to the State Senate Democrats» failed effort to capture the upper house of the legislature last year — which became fodder for Republican attack ads.

The question of whether the upper house of the parliament should be abolished is gaining traction, with some people calling for a directly elected senate to address what they see as cronyism.

Mr. Reynoso similarly argued that the former Department of Education administrator was the best suited to take on major progressive causes in the upper house of the state legislature.

She also pointed to reports that Mr. Cuomo colluded with the Republicans and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — and thus block the Women's Equality Agenda from passing.

Mr. de Blasio argued the network of donors and unions he helped organize would lead the Democrats to victory in the upper house of the legislature two years from now.

Tkaczyk's seating, however, will not give mainstream Democrats enough votes to break the alliance between Senate Republicans and the Independent Democratic Conference — an alliance which currently controls the upper house of the state Legislature.

After the November elections, the IDC will likely decide either to continue to work with the GOP, propping up the current regime in the upper house of the legislature, or to work with their fellow Democrats and establish a new order.

The Utah State Senate is the upper house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah.

During the primary, Mr. Cuomo's longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout called the Women's Equality line «a sham party,» pointing to reports that the governor had colluded with the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — which led to the failed effort to pass the complete Women's Equality Agenda.

Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins revealed to the Observer he intends to run to replace Councilwoman Inez Dickens, who won election to the Assembly earlier this month — a move that could leave Democrats a vital vote short on core issues facing the upper house of the State Legislature.

Liberals have nudged Cuomo to push for a Democratic - controlled Senate and mainline conference members have pointed to a host of issues that would be easier for the governor if his own party controlled the upper house of the Legislature.

She moved into the upper house of the State Legislature virtually unopposed.

Since 2012, the five - member IDC has colluded with the State Senate Republicans to control the upper house of the legislature.

Left - leaning healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU has endorsed Brooklyn GOP State Senator Martin Golden for re-election — in spite of a vow earlier this year to work exclusively toward helping the Democrats win control of the upper house of the state legislature.

Another bill, sponsored by state Senator Ken LaValle passed the upper house of the New York State Legislature on Wednesday, would put a halt on adopting the Draft Mute Swan Management Plan in its tracks while a committee studies the issue.

Lord Michael Levy, a Labour member of the House of Lords (the upper house of Britain's Parliament), said in a BBC appearance that the party had a «serious problem» with anti-Semitism, adding that it seemed «more prominent» in Labour than in its rival Conservative party.

The upper house of the legislature is elected on an ethnic basis, similar to the presidency; each voter in the Federation can either vote for Croat or for Bosniak candidates, not for both; the Federation elects 10 members.

In his maiden speech — which, following a tradition now rarely observed, he waited a year after his election to deliver — Sasse argued that the upper house of the U.S. Congress was intended specifically by the framers to preserve minority opinion by enshrining a process of long - form debate to preclude a legislative fast track.

A daunting list, but shorter than it was two years ago and it would be shorter still if it were not for political obstructions to proposed reforms such as the GST in the upper house of parliament where Mr. Modi's government does not have a majority.

Russian lawmaker Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, described the action as baseless and unfriendly, Interfax news agency reported.

But striking a more conciliatory tone, PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski moved to organise a meeting between the speaker of the upper house of parliament and the media late on Saturday night to discuss the new plan for journalists» access.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

The Lords, as its referred to, is the upper house of Parliament in the British system.

Not exact matches

Trudeau and his ministers know the urban middle - and upper - middle - class Canadians that form the core of their political constituency are sensitive about housing.

Unlike the 18 - storey student residence rising at the University of B.C., or the 25 - storey office tower planned for Vienna, the proposed Terrace House is not entirely wood - framed; developer PortLiving is calling it a «hybrid timber structure» — wood framed on its upper floors, but using more conventional steel and concrete construction methods lower down.

Nowadays, however, the upper house wields far less power than the lower, and the hereditary members are slowly being phased out, replaced by Lords appointed by the Prime Minister or the House of Lords Appointments Commission, an independent house wields far less power than the lower, and the hereditary members are slowly being phased out, replaced by Lords appointed by the Prime Minister or the House of Lords Appointments Commission, an independent House of Lords Appointments Commission, an independent body.

Spain's upper house is due to approve the imposition of direct rule over the region later Friday.

Cohn's departure would further set back those efforts and perhaps give the upper hand in the White House to a group of advisers seeking to scale back foreign trade, said a Wall Street executive who asked not to be named.

«I think we can see... the effect of lessons they learned from the first Abe administration, which gave up mid-stream,» said Tetsuro Fukuyama, an upper house lawmaker whose Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ousted Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 2009, only to be crushed themselves at the polls in December.

Abe's ruling camp controls the lower house but lacks a majority in the upper house, so needs the support of opposition parties to pass the nomination.

«When the housing market crashed, owners of the least valuable homes were especially hard hit, and lost more home value than homeowners at the upper end of the market,» Zillow senior economist Aaron Terrazas said in the report.

But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

«When the town asks regional authorities for funding for a project, it's told: you have Rusal, go work it out with them,» said Erik Chernyshev, a local Communist Party politician, former member of the region's upper house, who also worked as an engineer at the factory for 18 years.

Brexit poses a fundamental challenge to the future of the United Kingdom by removing the European Union law that has helped to bind it together, a committee of lawmakers from the British parliament's upper house said on Wednesday.

Buying a property with an income suite may have an edge over the fixer - upper in the event the tail risk of a housing crash materializes.