词汇 | upper-house |
释义 | upper house noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˌʌp.ə ˈhaʊs/ us /ˌʌp.ɚ ˈhaʊs/(alsoupper chamber) one of the two parts that some parliaments are divided into: (英国)上议院;(美国)参议院 In the UK, the upper house is the House of Lords.在英国,上议院又称贵族院。 The upper house of the US Congress is the Senate.美国议会的“上院”是参议院。 Compare lower house UK politics: government administration & organization apex awkward backbench Brexit Holyrood hung parliament parliamentarian parliamentary partition partitionist PMQs public policy quasi-public reprivatization reprivatize reshuffle the awkward gangidiom the House of Commons the House of Lords the Houses of Parliament Examples of upper houseupper house In 1621 the upperhouse sat for 109 sittings on 93 days. He had become an experienced parliament-man and an assiduous attender in the upperhouse. It does not appear to have been mentioned again in the upperhouse. Control of the upperhouse is not so powerful a card that the opposition needs no others. If one were searching for a 'normal' upperhouse election under the old party system, 1992 would be as good as any. Its apprehension was real in that the upperhouse election is based primarily on proportional representation. The larger districts of the upperhouse were similar to the standard districts of the lower house and therefore produced similar results. In the upperhouse, there was no chance for negotiation between the government and the opposition parties. This is due to government needing representation for departments in the upperhouse but being greatly reluctant to having peers as full cabinet ministers. As hostilities towards them grew, angry mobs began to prevent the bishops from reaching parliament and sitting in the upperhouse. Control of the upperhouse depressed the probability of being rolled on every bill in the session. One might ask whether chairmanships matter any longer when the upperhouse is held by the opposition. Within a few days, he returned to the upperhouse with a substitute bill to replace articles two and three of the senate's committee proposal. The impact of opposition control of the upperhouse. This, however, greatly understates the value to the opposition of controlling the upperhouse, relative to controlling a lower house committee, and we wish here to explain why. See all examples of upper house 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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