Sentence examples for lower house from from inspiring English sources

The upper house would be selected by the lower house from candidates named by state legislatures.

That will guarantee him a seat in the lower house, from which he could become prime minister.

He served as president of the lower house from 1912 and was again prime minister from June 1913.

He entered the Hesse-Darmstadt civil service in 1821 and served in the Landtag (lower house) from 1832 to 1836.

In that role, Mr. Maranhão had successfully maneuvered to prevent an ethics panel in the lower house from sanctioning Mr. Cunha over claims of graft.

Then, earlier this month, a further blow fell when the regime summarily removed Shwe Mann, the speaker of the lower house, from his position as head of the government party.

The economic-social commission includes the president of the National Statistics Agency; the president of Italy's antitrust authority; a board member of the Bank of Italy; a minister in the caretaker government responsible for European issues; and two lawmakers, one from the lower house, one from the senate, who will act as liaisons between the Parliament and the government.

"This is a coup d'état by the president against the Parliament," said Abdul Jabbar Qahraman, a lower house member from Helmand Province.

Prime Minister Abderrahmane el-Youssoufi's Socialist Union of Popular Forces won 50 of the 325 seats in the lower house, down from 57 and just 2 more than the conservative Istiqlal party.

One bill, passed into law in June with the support of the LDP and a smaller coalition party, calls for cutting lower house seats from five districts that include Kochi.

The longer we leave it, the more likely it is that public attention will be diverted elsewhere," said Cristiane Brazil, a lower house deputy from the PTB who dined at Cunha's home this week.