House of Lords
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- UK
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Cámara de los Lores
- Finally, on Thursday, there was a debate in the House of Lords brought by Baroness Falkner of Margravine on the importance of a secular space in public life.
- House of Lords Select Committee
- House of Lords sits
There had been not a single woman in the House of Lords.
- There had been not a single woman in the House of Lords.
- Like maybe you want to sort of get the Church of England out of the House of Lords.
- The British, by their nature, loathe tyranny and embrace freedom, which is why the House of Lords is completely unelected.
- Now he was in there and I won't mention his name, but this is one of the top legal brains in the country in the House of Lords.
- And then I was asked to speak at the House of Lords with a group of clinicians from the States and with from people like Stephanie Davis Arai.
Examples
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That kind of reform will need approval from the House of Lords, and the comments made by Baroness Falkner are a long overdue step towards that end.
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After much deliberation, the House of Lords decided to amend the bill.
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The House of Lords is a slightly odd institution.
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Post also run events which bring together MPs, members of the House of Lords, experts, stakeholders.
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They put that legislation through and then it comes into the House of Lords for checking and the Commons and the Lords work quite well together.
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Once adopted by the House of Lords, the new legislation will supersede existing laws regulating postmortem practices.
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The House of Lords reviewed the proposed legislation before it could be enacted.
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Many laws in the UK must first be approved by the House of Lords before becoming official.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is partly compositional: a learner who knows 'house' (as a legislative body) and 'lord' (a noble/peer) can infer it denotes an assembly of lords and thus a parliamentary chamber. However, the precise constitutional role (that it is the UK’s upper chamber, its membership patterns and reviewing function) is culturally specific and not fully deducible from the words alone, so the transparency is only partial.
Etymology
The House of Lords began as the actual House where the Lords—the country's leading nobles and church leaders—sat to review laws from the other chamber, so the phrase now means 'the upper chamber of Parliament'.