Sentence examples for an upper house from inspiring English sources

An inquiry by an upper house Senate committee in Australia said the government must be more transparent about the operations of the processing centers in PNG and Nauru, which are run by contractors.

After the vote the DPJ barred Mr Nukaga from attending an upper house oversight committee.

The council of ministers, the existing forum for national governments, would become an upper house.

"Whoever replaces Hatoyama would need to work them out before an upper house election, or else disappoint voters.

He has also appointed Jewish business leaders to the Shura Council, which acts as an upper house of Parliament.

The nationalist party of the late ex-Communist president, Franjo Tudjman, has an upper house majority of 68 seats.

Also, an upper-house election is due in 2010.

The DPJ might half-heartedly pass an upper-house motion censuring the government, but Mr Fukuda could ignore it.

There the LDP is fighting the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) for an upper-house seat.

And it would give Mr Abe more time to mess things up before an upper-house election due in June.

Although the LDP has a comfortable majority in the lower house, it has nowhere near the two-thirds necessary to overturn an upper-house veto.