The word 'whips' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is a noun that can be used to refer to a tool used for striking or a person who is in charge of enforcing a political party's discipline or controlling its members. It can also be used as a verb to describe the action of striking with a whip or using authority to maintain control. Example: The farmer used whips to drive the horses forward. Example: The party whip ensured that all members voted according to party lines. Example: The teacher used a stern tone and a sharp look to whip the students into shape.
The decision of the whips to impose a three line whip means that David Burrowes, aide to Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin and a leading member of the no camp, is expected to abstain in the "programme motion" vote.
Rebel MPs, like runaway horses, lose their fear of whips.
His Drake edits pair the Torontonian Andrex puppy with mournful 160bpm workouts, and he's part of the Teklife fraternity alongside DJ Spinn et al. Check the recent Buy Now EP, in which he takes 80s boogie – SOS Band, Roy Ayers, Shalamar – and whips round the tempo dial until they're chirruping at breakneck speed.
His politics came from the left of the party, but he was regarded as a fully paid-up member of the "sensible left", and, in 1990, he joined the opposition whips' office as the northern whip.
She is typical of backbenchers whose existing seats have no natural successor and will be looking to the party whips to help them find a new home – or who may end up causing trouble.
I have seen whips pushing people through the aye and no lobbies.
She suggested that a 50-word summary of each amendment be introduced, but this met with huge resistance, she says, because it takes away the power of the whips.
Participants had taken over the outdoor back bar of the pub for a huge party that appeared to have the dual themes of Abba and Priscilla and the beer was already flowing and the stock whips cracking around a campfire lit to combat the evening chill.
Smacking is evidently distinct from outright physical abuse, but there is evidence that, among some parents, the use of whips, belts and electrical flex is considered a perfectly acceptable means of "correction".
He whips the ball viciously across the face of the Algeria goal, but Schweinsteiger fails to get his head to it at the near post.
Although the government has an overall majority of 12 seats in the Commons, Cameron is massively outnumbered in the House of Lords, and his whips will have to be alert to any signs of rebellions by backbench MPs, possibly made restive by the prime minister's promotion of an insufficiently ambitious EU renegotiation agenda.
