Sentence examples for upper and lower houses from inspiring English sources

Mr. Yeltsin summoned deputies from the upper and lower houses of Parliament to the session.

The elections will include voting for the upper and lower houses of Parliament.

People will also be voting for the upper and lower houses of the federal Parliament and for local governments.

Almost all, however, believe the constitution should be sorted out by referendum, rather than rubberstamped in parliament's upper and lower houses - the second option open to Mr Chirac.

Despite protests from Mr. Milosevic's Socialist Party, and his wife's Yugoslav Left Party, the law was passed easily in both the upper and lower houses.

Earlier in the day, Germany's upper and lower houses of parliament passed the law that enables them to take part in the Greek rescue.

But NSW Labor, while adopting the quota, has no such penalty – women account for 23% of upper and lower house candidates there, with that set to drop further next year.

And with legislative gridlock looming between the upper and lower house, the prospects for any further Wall Street reforms are virtually nil.

Among them are former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the heads of the upper and lower house and the runner-up in the 2014 presidential election, Aécio Neves.

The top line is that the centre-left Democratic party has won the most votes in races for both the upper and lower house, with a clear lead over Silvio Berlusconi's party.

Under the Australian Constitution, the government can call simultaneous elections in both the upper and lower house if the Senate rejects the same bill twice, with a three-month gap between votes.