the upper house of the British parliament

if that happens, lord strabolgi may be cheering from another place: in his last parliamentary intervention he called for the house of lords to be replaced by an elected senate.

如果果真如此，strabolgi议员或许会含笑九泉：在他的最后一次国会质询中他呼吁以选举的参议院来替代贵族院。

the house of lords code of conduct states that peers 「must never accept any financial inducement as an incentive or reward for exercising parliamentary influence」.

上议院行为準则规定议员们「必须绝不接受任何财物诱因做为动机或者回报来行使议会的影响力」。

members of the house of lords could be elected by a college of peers.

上议院议员可以由贵族选举团选出。

this was coupled with the natural rate of extinction of existing hereditary titles and the near abolition of the hereditary element of the house of lords at the end of the twentieth century.

这是加上自然灭绝速度的现有遗传冠军和近废除遗传因素的上议院在二十世纪末。

and in may the house of lords halted passage of a bill that would have given doctors some scope to help grownups to die.

在五月的时候，上议院曾拒绝通过一项可能会使医生有权限用安乐死结束病痛婴儿生命的法案。

「it is their responsibility to deal with this particular issue, 」 health minister lord warner told the house of lords on monday.

处理这一问题是医院的责任。「卫生部长洛德·华纳于本周一对英国上议院说道。

a house of lords committee added another 68 pages on the subject on june 2nd.

上议会委员会在6月2日就此主题又增加了68页意见稿。

one of the many americans then in london, a massachusetts loyalist named samuel curwen, found the “mob」 outside the door to the house of lords too much to bear and returned to his lodgings.

当时在伦敦的许多北美殖民者中有一位名叫塞缪尔，柯温的马萨诸塞州保皇党人，他发现聚在上议院门口外的人群数量是如此之多以至于他别无选择只能回到寓所。

this is different from the position in the house of lords where the judges may deliver five judgments all expressing various shades of opinion.

这一点同上议院不同，在上议院法官们可以作出五种意见完全不同的裁决。

although the agreement expressly stated that it is in the form of a licence. the house of lords still found that the agreement was a tenancy because the agreement grants exclusive possession to mr.

上议院与上诉法院采取了相反的观点，认为在托拉斯和布鲁顿先生之间的协议是一个租赁。

first, the vote was for a new member of the house of lords rather than the commons, and by an odd procedure that strains even britain’s notoriously elastic constitutional arrangements.

第一，这次选举是选上议院议员而不是下议院议员，而且选举程序怪异的恪守堪称英国臭名昭着的灵活的法制体系。

last week, the house of lords voted against an attempt by the former lord chancellor lord falconer to relax the law on assisted suicide.

上周，英国上议院投票反对前大法官福尔克纳放宽安乐死法律的提案。

under another set of proposals due to be unveiled in may, the present house of lords is earmarked for abolition.

在其他将于5月揭晓的一系列提案中，当前的上议院又被打上了待废止的标签。