| 词汇 | example_english_hereditary-peer |
| 释义 | Examples of hereditary peerThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Then one hears that that was not an appointee, but a young hereditarypeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He would not, as a consequence of his father's death, be able to step into his shoes as an elected hereditarypeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A hereditarypeer would not get in on the basis of a degree of legitimacy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have recently seen a small number of hereditary peers selecting another hereditarypeer to represent them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A hereditarypeer can dispense with his title or put it into cold storage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My second example is very different, although it involves another hereditarypeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The old idea is that to be a hereditarypeer one has to have broad acres to sustain the position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The essential qualification for candidates is to be have been born a hereditarypeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has, after all, a bus conductor as a hereditarypeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only person who cannot is the son of a hereditarypeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would continue to have a majority in the other place even if we abolished the voting right of every hereditarypeer tomorrow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I entirely accept that any hereditarypeer can stand and vote in local government elections. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, every hereditarypeer is descended from a peer who was appointed, so there is not much difference. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, although a hereditarypeer he is not an upper class twit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a fact of political and social life that one very rarely meets an unpleasant hereditarypeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is perhaps natural that a hereditarypeer would appreciate such a system on the grounds that what was good enough for his ancestor is good enough for him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is one possible application of the writ of acceleration in future—if the eldest son of an existing hereditarypeer were to be made a life peer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He, too, is a hereditarypeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one said in the past that someone who became a hereditarypeer was depriving his children and his children's children of the right to become a commoner. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is one of the objections to this system that most appointments will be made at ages well above those at which, generally, a hereditarypeer succeeds to his peerage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is legitimate to argue that it is hard on the hereditarypeer whose father dies six months and one day after the legislation coming into force. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing could more eloquently support our argument that hereditary peers should not have those powers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If hereditary peers are so justifiable and their abolition so perverse, why does he not pledge himself to reinstate them? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were no landowning hereditary peers on it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would have been defeated by 79 votes to 55 if hereditary peers did not exist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that a similar reticence ought to possess many of the hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It could be so complicated that we end up with hereditary peers electing each other—and we have not even fulfilled the manifesto commitment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a transitional scheme, under which 75 hereditary peers will elect each other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Hereditary peers represent no one other than themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Removing the rights of hereditary peers is one step, but alone it is just not good enough. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He referred to hereditary peers as a particular attraction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I support the amendment because it will ensure that the hereditary peers will be there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The irony is that, in this day and age, hereditary peers are in middle-class occupations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I join him in paying tribute to the selfless work that many hereditary peers do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I could cite many other hereditary peers whose service has been, and is, exemplary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are considering voting and speaking rights for hereditary peers, so he should stick to the narrow confines of the amendment that is before us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The same is true of some hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The hereditary peers can do a great deal before they depart. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he arguing that the only people who can be independent are the hereditary peers? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be thought that the peculiar abilities of the hereditary peers mean that that is not of great significance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most insulting of all, they claimed that only hereditary peers could be truly independent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If earlier generations of hereditary peers had shared his wish and practised chastity, we would all be spending this evening doing something else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We introduced life peers alongside hereditary peers, building on what worked, going with the grain of our constitution. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No wonder they want to keep the hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is in stark contrast to the high attendance of some of those working hereditary peers who will be removed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our ambition is to remove the rights of all hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we do not definitively settle the question of the hereditary peers, we present ourselves with an obstacle to sensible debate and long-term reform. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Hereditary peers will not be disqualified from voting, but they will have a rather remarkable franchise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That scrutiny came not only from life peers, but from hereditary peers, who play a substantial part in the positive work of improving legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are 200 to 300 active hereditary peers, and we are considering their right to sit, speak and vote in another place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amendment on tuition fees would have been agreed without the votes of hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that the hereditary peers are particularly independent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He essentially said that any royal commission established would get rid of hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One need only consider the contributions made by several hereditary peers to note that they often turn out to be of considerable value. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The hereditary peers are representative only of an old aristocratic section of society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Defending the powers of hereditary peers seems a million miles away from the issues that affect our constituents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As he has shown, he is in a position to blame the change of direction on hereditary peers, however erroneously ascribed that blame is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It could have a prehistoric zone, in which we could have 750 hereditary peers lined up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be natural that that system should appeal to hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The same goes for the lifers, as they now have an interest in hanging on to the remaining hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is insulting to the electorate in the 21st century that part of our legislature will be chosen by electoral colleges of 92 hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One could equally forcefully put precisely the opposite proposition—that after completing stage 1 and disposing of the hereditary peers, stage 2 becomes less likely. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are now considering the possibility of hereditary peers taking part in a series of democratic processes that are oddly unrelated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The position for hereditary peers will be precisely the same. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Hereditary peers are given a one-off choice—they have one year—to renounce their peerage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When the hereditary peers go, we will expect the life peers to take up that work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want all hereditary peers to be removed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are happy for those two hereditary peers to continue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would like to know who they are—the 77 hereditary peers who would become life peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the moment, there are 736 hereditary peers by succession of all parties, not peers by creation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it necessary and right to include also a proportion of the hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The question is to decide which hereditary peers by succession shall take part in that transitional provision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In such a system it is clearly desirable that there should be some provision for hereditary peers to be nominated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thus, in total, 36 of the 222 hereditary peers who attended at least one-third of the sitting days did not speak. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He refers to: "hereditary peers with no democratic legitimacy". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not sure whether those 759 hereditary peers and their various activities require all that floor space. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not always realised that the hereditary peers passed the poll tax legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She has even spoken about hereditary peers having specially sensitive antennae. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The hereditary peers, those descended from great families and bearing titles of long-standing creation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We heard earlier about young hereditary peers not turning up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, 104 hereditary peers are left; it is a jolly good deal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have not completed stage 1; 92 hereditary peers remain and an absurd process is being created so that they can renew themselves through by-elections. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a limited operation, the purpose of which is to enable distinguished people to become peers without their having to become hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They used to appoint hereditary peers, but now appoint life peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not need a bloated, elephantine monstrosity of 1,300, which is what we had before we got rid of most of the hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We recognised the need to give priority to the removal of hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall not dwell on my argument for the retention of the role of hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would mean that only the independent-minded hereditary peers would speak and the "captive balloons" would vote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My solution would be to give life peerages to all the remaining 90 or so hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So we agree with the proposal that not only new hereditary peers but those already there should have a once-and-for-all right of renunciation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will find that the public believe what we believe—that hereditary peers should not have that right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, the vote would have been lost on a vote of life peers alone—it had nothing to do with hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It takes a modest step in that direction by removing a substantial number of hereditary peers, but it does no more than that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, the consequence of striking out subsection (4) would be to create life peers of the elected hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard much about the independence of the hereditary peers, and much about place men and cronies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It provides an element of continuity in our political and social life, as do the hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the media, he claimed that the defeats were inflicted by some sort of backward-looking alliance of hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are now talking about adding nearly 100 more hereditary peers, to be elected by their own peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is far more patronage involved in appointing life peers than in the succession of hereditary peers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am referring to hereditary peers of all parties and of none. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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