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upper chamber

upper chamber

noun

  1. another name for an upper house


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The bill still needs to pass through the upper chamber of parliament, or the Bundesrat.

The bill was a top priority for Senate President Wilton Simpson, a central Florida egg farmer, and passed with near-unanimous support in the upper chamber.

State senators hold broad authority to hand-pick candidates, and selections are almost never questioned before they are confirmed in voice votes in the upper chamber.

Far more, 81 percent, said the issue of who controls the upper chamber was “extremely” or “very” important to their ballot decision.

The bill, S.47, which passed the Senate in 2012, was swiftly approved by the upper chamber in 2013 by a vote of 78-22.

A devout, self-described “Christian Zionist,” Inhofe was also the closest thing the upper chamber had to an outright theocrat.

Occasionally the cubiculum terminates in a semicircular recess, as in the upper chamber in Fig. 9.

In the mysterious upper chamber where the reputations of the future are in the making he passed as the strongest.

An elective upper Chamber took the place of the appointed Legislative Council a year later.

His experiments were made in a little workshop behind his home at Friedrichsdorff; and wires were run from it to an upper chamber.

The upper chamber, or House of Peers, was his creature, since he could create members at will.

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