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Synonyms for upper house


Grammar : Noun



Définition of upper house

  • noun small and less representative legislature
Example sentences :
  • Mr. Gladstone talks of an Upper House, with a £20 qualification.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • The matter was then referred to the Upper House for its concurrence.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 » by John Charles Dent
  • Addington demurred to Pitt's request that he should retire to the Upper House.
  • Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
  • The bill, however, was not safe when it had reached the Upper House.
  • Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • The upper house can only be approached by means of steps cut in the rock.
  • Extract from : « The Prehistoric World » by E. A. Allen
  • It will give me no trouble, for, as the respectable Buggins says, we're in the Upper House now.
  • Extract from : « Framley Parsonage » by Anthony Trollope
  • The Bishops were restored to their seats in the Upper House.
  • Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • To-morrow, when the King had come, and the Upper House was sitting.
  • Extract from : « It Might Have Been » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • In 1897 the emperor appointed him a member of the upper house.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 5 » by Various
  • The Upper House of Convocation: from a broadside, dated 1623.
  • Extract from : « A Student's History of England, v. 2 (of 3) » by Samuel R. Gardiner.

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