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house of lords

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1. House of Lords, British House of Lordsnoun

   the upper house of the British parliament

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1. House of Lordsnoun

   The upper chamber of the UK Houses of Parliament

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1. house of lords

   The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is independent from the House of Commons and has its own powers and structure. It shares the task of making and shaping laws, and checking and challenging the work of the government. Members of the House of Lords are not elected and include life peers, bishops, and archbishops.

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1. House of Lords

   The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster. Bills can be introduced into either the House of Lords or the House of Commons and members of the Lords may also take on roles as Government Ministers. The House of Lords has its own support services, separate from the Commons, including the House of Lords Library. Unlike the elected House of Commons, most new members of the House of Lords are appointed. Membership of the House of Lords is made up of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal. There are currently 26 Lords Spiritual who sit in the Lords by virtue of their ecclesiastical role in the established Church of England. The Lords Temporal make up the rest of the membership; of these, the majority are life peers who are appointed by the Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister, or on the advice of the House of Lords Appointments Commission. Membership was once a right of birth to hereditary peers but, following a series of reforms, only 92 members sitting by virtue of a hereditary peerage remain. The number of members is not fixed; as of 11 June 2012 the House of Lords has 763 members, unlike the House of Commons, which has a 650-seat fixed membership.

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How to pronounce house of lords?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of house of lords in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of house of lords in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of house of lords in a Sentence

1. Walter Bagehot:

   A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

2. Charles Hanson:

   Whether through fear or fascination, it's interesting to know a member of the highest aristocratic social order, a man with a place in the House of Lords, acquired this item, it reminds us that the vampire myth affects people from all walks of life.

3. Baroness Frances D'Souza:

   Lord Sewel has this morning resigned as chairman of committees. The House of Lords will continue to uphold standards in public life and will not tolerate departure from these standards, these serious allegations will be referred to the House of Lords commissioner for standards and the Metropolitan Police for investigation as a matter of urgency.

4. John Buttifant Sewel:

   The bigger questions are whether my behavior is compatible with membership of the House of Lords and whether my continued membership would damage and undermine public confidence in the House of Lords, i believe the answer to both these questions means that I can best serve the House by leaving it.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/House_of_Lords
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=house of lords