• Meanwhile, in Cairo, clashes extended to areas around the Shura Council, the upper house of parliament.

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  • The Indian government appointed him a member of the upper house of parliament in Delhi.

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  • As a by-product, the upper house of parliament has voted to dismiss the justice minister, Monica Macovei.

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  • With the help of a more compliant Duma, he then removed governors from the upper house of parliament.

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  • Legislation for it is stuck in the Senate, the upper house of parliament, where Labor lacks a majority.

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  • Sir Garfield was rewarded for his support for black rule with a seat in the upper house of Parliament.

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  • In 1996 he served a one-year term in the upper house of Parliament as a member of a socialist party.

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  • They sit in the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, and are guaranteed a certain exposure to media attention.

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  • Perhaps the most notorious insider is Mamdouh Ismail, a businessman and a former member of the upper house of Parliament.

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  • After stepping down as premier for the last time in 1992, he was appointed to the upper house of Parliament for life.

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  • He reformed the upper house of parliament, removing the powerful regional governors who sat there ex-officio and replacing them with Kremlin appointments.

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  • He owes his seat in the upper house of Parliament to Yadav.

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  • The conservatives have already said they will fight his tax plans when they come before the opposition-controlled Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament.

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  • It said the changes to the bill made by the upper house of parliament late last year had improved the legislation in "important ways".

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  • Mr Fischer's popularity at home was confirmed in 1999, when he ran as an independent for the Czech Senate, the upper house of parliament.

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  • The indistinct divide between the highest court in the land and the upper house of Parliament has long baffled both British and foreign observers.

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  • And his most cherished reform, an emissions-trading scheme to tackle climate change, is stuck in the upper house of parliament, where his government lacks a majority.

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  • "He follows the rugby spirit--in other words, the spirit of fair play, " says the wrestler, Hiroshi Hase, now a member of the upper house of parliament.

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  • This was supposed to persuade the upper house of parliament to accept Mr Skuratov's resignation, which he had offered some weeks earlier under pressure and then withdrawn.

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  • India's cabinet has approved some key changes to the controversial anti-corruption Lokpal bill suggested by a committee of MPs from the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament.

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  • Questioning may revolve around whether it is possible for the Upper House of Parliament to be elected and not become more assertive in the use of its existing powers.

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  • In a speech to the upper house of parliament, Mr Morsi said that after two years of turmoil, it was time for Egypt to turn to "production, work, seriousness".

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  • Throughout his first three terms, his coalition, made up of the Liberals and the smaller National Party, was hampered by its lack of a majority in the Senate, the upper house of Parliament.

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  • With the constitution passing with nearly two thirds majority, the president remains defiant, telling members of the upper house of parliament that the cradle of culture and history has survived much worse challenges in the past.

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  • Appointed a life peer in the House of Lords, she held junior ministerial posts before becoming leader of the upper house of Parliament, a big job with cabinet status, where she earned a reputation as a shrewd political manager.

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