Sentence examples for chamber that would from inspiring English sources

House and Senate negotiators stripped a provision, favored by a majority of each chamber, that would have blocked a Bush administration plan to revamp overtime rules.

Only the vagaries of the electoral system gave it less than the two-thirds majority in the 550-strong chamber that would have allowed it unilaterally to write a new constitution.

This week Muehlbronner stopped short of actually pulling the lever that will dump Spain through the trapdoor into a fiscal torture chamber that would have done credit to Torquemada himself.

The Democratic speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, has repeatedly said he favors opening casinos in the Catskills and other resort areas, and he has pushed legislation through his chamber that would permit casino gambling in the state.

In meetings with parliamentary deputies, he indicated he would back a reform of the Parliament's upper chamber that would bar regional governors and local legislative leaders from automatically being assigned double roles as Russia's "senators".

One idea is a joint committee of House and Senate members to deal with intelligence; another is to consolidate all intelligence oversight into one intelligence committee in each chamber that would both approve funding and dole out the money.Do these reforms stand much chance of being adopted?

On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, promising legislation is pending in both chambers that would reduce the risk of executing innocent people.

Even if an election is held under the present system, he hopes for a stable majority in both chambers that would give him another five years in office.

The real story would lead us to the Kashmir valley, that potential nuclear flashpoint, and the most densely militarised zone in the world, where half a million Indian soldiers (one to every four civilians) and a maze of army camps and torture chambers that would put Abu Ghraib in the shade are bringing secularism and democracy to the Kashmiri people.

Ms. Swayze – who has met with Democratic Senate leaders and plans to meet with Republican leaders next week – is pushing for bills in both chambers that would establish a Pancreatic Cancer Initiative "to assist in coordinating activities to address the high mortality rate associated with pancreatic cancer," according to the House bill, which has scores of bipartisan co-sponsors.

Finally, the elephant stables, 12 chambers that would have fit two elephants each, now stand empty and silent.