The upper house is called the Senate which has 100 seats equally distributed among the four provinces of Pakistan.
上议院被称为参议院，拥有100个席位，平均分配给巴基斯坦的四个州。
The next election to the House of Councillors (the upper house) is due in mid-2010.
下一届参议院（上议院）的选举定于2010年中期。
If he resists, the LDP might censure him in the upper house, producing a similar outcome.
如果他加以拒绝，自民党(ldp)也许会在上议院对他横加指责，达到类似的结果。
Mrs Merkel's coalition might lose control of the state legislature and Germany's upper house.
默克尔夫人的联盟可能失去对州议会和德国上议院的控制。
Moreover, in 2010 voters will return to the ballot box for the Diet’s less powerful upper house.
另外，2010年将进行权力稍小的国会上议院的选举。
The defeat means that Mrs Merkel will also lose her majority in the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house.
这次失败意味着默克尔将在德国联邦上院失去多数地位。
All it had done since winning control of the Diet's upper house in July 2007 had been to block the LDP.
而自从于2007年7月赢得国会上议院控制权后，它所做的都是为阻挡自民党。
Months ago, gaining a majority in the upper house to add to its lower-house one was considered a safe bet.
数月之前，通过取得上议院主要席位来增加下议院席位被视为一种保守的赌注。
The election will leave the Greens with the balance of power in the Senate, the upper house, from mid-2011.
本次选举将使绿党从2011年中期开始在参院和上院的权力制衡体系中占有一席之地。
Countries as diverse as Australia and Switzerland function smoothly enough with an elected upper house.
在澳大利亚和瑞士这样的多元化国家，参院由选举产生，运转良好。
This means postponing scheduled elections for half the seats in the Diet's upper house by a week, to July 29th.
这意味着国会上院半数席位选举将被推迟一周，于7月29号举行。
Kazakhstan has a bicameral Parliament, comprised of the lower house (the Mazhilis) and upper house (the Senate).
哈萨克斯坦实行双议会制，由下议院（the Mazhilis）和上议院（参议院）构成。
In last summer's election for the upper house, its 500,000-odd voters sent one representative to the Diet (parliament).
在去年夏天的上议院选举中，50多万选民只派送了一名代表前往议会。
In last summer's election for the upper house, its 500, 000-odd voters sent one representative to the Diet (parliament).
在去年夏天的上议院选举中，50多万选民只派送了一名代表前往议会。
In Australia the 507, 600 people of Tasmania have the same weight in the upper house as the 7m who live in New South Wales.
在澳大利亚，塔斯马尼亚的507,600人在上院拥有和新南威尔士7百万人相同的权重。
The reason is the loss by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in summer elections of the upper house of the Diet (parliament).
原因就是自民党在上议院夏季选举中失利。
To placate them, Mr Turnbull committed his coalition to voting against the bill when it came before the upper house, on August 13th.
为了安抚反对者，特恩布尔保证将在法案8月13日提交到上议院时将带领联盟投反对票。
The French parliament's upper house yesterday backed a proposal to raise the minimum age at which women may marry from 15 to 18.
法国国会参议院日前通过了一项有关提高该国女性法定婚龄的提案。该提案认为，女性法定婚龄应由目前的15岁提高到18岁。
It depends on unelected life senators for its majority in the upper house and so is vulnerable to even a small rebellion on its own side.
它依赖不经选举的终身参议员维持在参议员的多数，因此也难以抵挡自己一方的小小倒戈。
With a tally of 11 out of 242 seats in the upper house and five out of 480 in the lower house, it is hardly a direct threat to the two main parties.
“众人之党”在上议院242个位置中拥有11个，下议院480个中拥有5个，这样的比例真的很难对现存的两个主要党派造成直接威胁。
Japan's new prime minister, Naoto Kan, has pushed a debate about raising the consumption tax to the top of the campaign for the upper house of parliament.
日本的新任首相菅直人推动了在上议院竞选活动中关于提高消费税率的讨论。
The elections due on July 29th are for half of the 242 seats in the upper house of the Diet (parliament), for which the campaign officially began this week.
以竞选242个国会上院席位中的半数为目的的大选将于7月29号举行，为此，选举办公室于本周开始投入运作。
The defeat in NRW also strips Mrs Merkel's government of its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature, which represents the states.
北威州选举失利同时剥夺了默克尔联邦参议院多数席位的优势，而联邦参议院的议员是各州的代表，是最高的立法机构。
The Conservatives have had a clear policy in favour of a largely elected upper house for the past five years, even if plenty of their MPs feel uneasy about it.
保守党过去五年清晰传达了自己在这方面的态度，即使很多下院议员对此问题感到不安。
Under Italy's 2005 electoral law only a convincing victory can deliver an outright majority in the upper house. This appears to be exactly what Mr Berlusconi has obtained.
意大利2005年通过的选举法规定，只有获得公认的和令人信服的的胜利才能在上院中取得绝对优势大多数。
The sleepy upper house, which is elected by members of provincial assemblies, usually attracts outsiders' attention just once a year, when it hosts the national spelling contest.
由各省众议院选出的上院往往很冷清，人们一年只关注它一次，也就是当它举办全国拼字比赛时。
The sleepy upper house, which is elected by members of provincial assemblies, usually attracts outsiders' attention just once a year, when it hosts the national spelling contest.
由各省众议院选出的上院往往很冷清，人们一年只关注它一次，也就是当它举办全国拼字比赛时。
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