Sentence examples for half the chamber from inspiring English sources
Half the chamber rises to its feet.
Half the chamber's 252 seats are contested every three years.
The chaos was set in train when the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), led by Ichiro Ozawa, became the dominant party in the upper house of the Diet (parliament) last July after elections for half the chamber's seats.
The military-issued transitional charter had reserved a third of the seats in the 508-member body for competition by individual candidates instead of party lists, and the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party won about 100 of its 235-seat plurality — nearly half the chamber — by running candidates for individual seats.
Congresso em Foco, a prominent watchdog group in Brasilia, says more than 300 of the legislators who will vote on Sunday - well over half the chamber - are under investigation for corruption, fraud or electoral crimes.
"This is an important vote, and all members of the Senate deserve to have adequate time to talk about what is at stake with this nominee". Alito has generated stronger opposition than Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who won "yes" votes from half the chamber's 44 Democrats when he was confirmed in September.
On either side of the portrait of Moses, there are 11 profiles in the eastern half of the chamber that face left and eleven in the western half, which face right, so that all look toward the full-face relief of Moses in the center.
Shading half of the chamber with an opaque cover, then moving the cover to shade the other half, gave qualitatively similar transient decreases in photosynthesis (data not shown).
He then detaches half of the chamber, and one of the pistons with it, and replaces it with a part that's been fitted with a spinning needle.
Even in straitened times, the Vale of Glamorgan festival clings to its policy of presenting new work, in its latter half augmenting the chamber repertoire with three quartets.
