Sentence examples for because the upper house from inspiring English sources

Because the upper house is in the hands of the largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, even the few measures that Mr. Fukuda did try to pass during his time as premier ran into stalemate in Parliament.

The 2 July poll will also be the first double-dissolution election since 1987, with all senators up for re-election because the upper house refused to pass legislation setting up a new construction industry watchdog, an issue which has already receded from the forefront of the debate.

He kept his job because the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, exercised its right to block his dismissal.

And because elections for the upper house replace only half of its MPs every three years, the coalition still retains 139 of that chamber's 242 seats, giving it not only a solid majority but the right to go on controlling all of its committees.

The Commons cannot do this with the justice and security bill because it originated in the upper house.

Yukio Hatoyama, the opposition party's secretary general, said his party enjoyed a greater popular mandate because it had won in the upper house election last summer.

The senator's decision is not likely to alter the balance of power in the upper house, because Republican voters are in the majority in his sparsely populated district in the northeastern part of the state.

She knows that she must achieve some black-red entente anyway, because SPD-led states dominate the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, in which the 16 states are represented.

Peers tend not to hold a vote at a bill's second reading, as they did this time, because the constitutional role of the upper house is to revise legislation.

The landslide vote means that the measure almost certainly will become law no matter how the upper house votes, because the Duma would need only 300 votes to override action by the upper house.

The main vote on the second reading of the bill will pass because Ed Miliband, who supports reform of the upper house, has instructed Labour MPs to vote with the coalition.