Sentence examples for senates- from inspiring English sources

LAST week's joint meeting of the foreign policy committees of the American and Mexican senates served as a reminder of the unique position that Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, holds in American foreign policy today.

Canada's Senate is wholly nominated; members of the German Bundesrat, and of the French and Irish Senates, are chosen wholly or largely by indirect election.

Whereas in 1990 the Republicans did not control a single state legislature in the South, now they rule both houses in Florida, the lower houses in both North and South Carolina and the senates in Texas and Virginia.

There will be "clinical networks,""clinical senates" and a central, powerful commissioning body with local arms.

This complexity, as well as the fact that it limits the influence of political parties, probably accounts for its infrequent use; it has been used in Northern Ireland, Ireland, and Malta and in the selection of the Australian and South African senates.

The court sits in two eight-member Senates, which handle ordinary cases.

On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glasshouse among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of The Wanderer,…the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.

In the city-states the municipal senates serve also as provincial parliaments, and the municipal offices assume the nature of provincial ministries.

Photograph: Mike Bowers for The Guardian Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 4.16pm AESThe:16 The senate has just passed a motion by Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson calling on the government to sign the Marrakesh Treaty which facilitates access to published works to be produced in a format for the blind and visually impaired.

I've tuned in now to the senate debate we foreshadowed earlier today on the Democratic Labor Party Senator John Madigan's bill to remove Medicare funding for gender selection abortions.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 8.49pm AEST11:49 Penny Wong and Jacinta Collins elected as senate leader and deputy Ladies have taken command of the Senate.