Sentence examples for lords from inspiring English sources

The Government don't really care that much about Scotland, but are terrified that people in England will then say; no house of lords, city of London investment bankers, public school elites in the system of government, we'll have some of that!

Either way, the job of the law lords is to uphold the law and see that justice is available to every citizen.

None of them became peers because they either withdrew their nominations or were blocked by the Lords Appointments Commission, the body responsible for vetting possible lords.

The law lords were scathing in their summing up.

In the House of Lords last night, Lord Jenkin condemned the energy "oligopoly" and tabled an amendment calling for greater competition.

A Labour source said that, given teenagers have a "tremendous vested interest in whether or not we stay in the EU or leave", there could be a strong appetite for amending the EU referendum bill in the Lords, even if Labour and the SNP fail to recruit the relatively small number of Tory rebels they would need to defeat the government in the Commons.

In the autumn, a parliamentary bill from Lord Falconer that would allow doctors in this country to help people with a terminal illness to die is expected to be debated, but even if it passes in the Lords, it still faces the greater hurdle of the Commons and any change in the law will be too late for Chamberlain.

It will then move to report stage and will then receive a third reading before moving to the House of Lords.

At one stage he said that whenever he criticised his Conservative colleagues in the House of Lords – about, for instance, the commercialisation of the National Health Service, the neglect of housebuilding or light-touch regulation of the financial system – they were always  able to retort that New Labour had started it.

It was predictable that last week's House of Lords report on the constitutional implications of a yes vote in the Scottish referendum was brushed aside by David Cameron during his latest Scottish visit and simultaneously trashed by the Scottish nationalists.

She also called for the abolition of the House of Lords, saying that it had "no place in a democratic society".