Sentence examples for composition of the senate from inspiring English sources

The composition of the Senate thus underwent a considerable change: few of the senators who had opposed Caesar survived; the new senators included many knights and municipal Italians and even a few provincials from Gaul.

The composition of the Senate remained unclear on Sunday, and a handful of independent senators and single-issue parties seemed poised to take the balance of power in that chamber, a role held by the Greens in the current Parliament.

The composition of the Senate, in which each state has an equal number of senators regardless of that state's population, was originally designed to attract the Australian colonies into one Federation.

Once slavery was removed, the most undemocratic remaining provision of the Constitution was, and is, the composition of the Senate — its so-called equality of representation, whereby each state gets two senators regardless of population.

"And the composition of the Senate has not changed," Mr. Josten said.

Given the composition of the Senate, it is not likely to happen in a second term, either.

As a result of that, and with a strong effort by labor and other progressive outside groups, Democrats did not lose a single senate seat, and there was no change in the partisan composition of the state Assembly.

The heart of Draper's proposal is not about better or more innovative governance, but about changing the composition of California's senate delegation and diluting the electoral college votes it has delivered to the Democratic candidate for president in every election since 1992.

He was "master of the senate".

12 9 11 MASTER OF THE SENATE, by Robert A. Caro.

4 3 8 MASTER OF THE SENATE, by Robert A. Caro.