Backbenchers have a microphone on their desk, and merely stand to speak ( unless they cannot stand ), in accordance with standing order 60.

Whips have historically been brutal to Backbenchers to secure their vote.

He was one of the ' Frontbenchers & Backbenchers of the Year ' chosen by commentators on the ConservativeHome website, in December 2009 and December 2010 respectively.

Hishammuddin and Home Ministry ’ s officials met for about three hours with representatives from the Attorney-General ’ s Chambers, the Bar Council, the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club, the National Council for Women ’ s Organisations and the National Civics Bureau.

* former Deputy Prime Minister Dato ' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian ministers Hishammuddin Hussein, Effendi Norwawi, Fauzi Abdul Rahman and Nazri Aziz, politician and former chairman of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club Shahrir Samad, the Sultans of Pahang and Perak, late Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei from 1932 to 1936 and the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan.

Backbenchers Halimah Yacob and Josephine Teo were made Ministers of State.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

They can be effective, however, if their members set high standards for candidates and devote substantial time to the work.

If, however, it would help to intensify your anguish, I can delimit the powers of a few of the divinities you've affronted and describe the punishment they meted out in one analogous instance.

This, however, can only be considered approximate, as the diameter of the pulley was increased by the build-up of tape and the tape was occasionally removed from the pulley during the runs.

This, however, will not exhaust their practical usefulness, as they rather clearly indicate what thorough phonologic investigation can contribute to orthography design.

He can be expected, however, to examine and interpret the information already available ; ;

Unfortunately, however, and for reasons to be discussed in the following chapter, no rate relationships can be made completely nondiscriminatory as long as all or some of the rates must be set above marginal costs in order to yield adequate revenues.

From even a cursory inspection of its many aspects, however, the historian can deduce several fundamental conclusions about the progress of the Aegean world down to 800 B.C.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

The instrumental method, however, is about 100 times more sensitive and yields numerical results which can be accurately repeated at will over a period of time.

We can, however, maximize its expected value.

In some cases, however, domination of the sex act by one partner can be temporary, triggered by a passing but urgent emotional need.

Unless one takes refuge in the theory -- however disguised -- that Negroes are, somehow, different from white people, I do not see how one can escape the conclusion that the Negro's status in this country is not only a cruel injustice but a grave national liability.

This, however, is sufficient to show that more or less non-violent resistance and economic conflict ( if both sides are strong enough ) can be war of all against all no less than if other means are used.

In practical terms, however, since most of us are spontaneously self-centered, Buddhism encourages us to focus love and compassion on others, and thus can be characterized as " altruistic.

Others argue, however, that he hardly can be considered an anthropologist in the conventional sense.

Typically, however, the one-way ANOVA is used to test for differences among at least three groups, since the two-group case can be covered by a t-test.

This is not the most general situation of a Cartesian product of a family of sets, where a same set can occur more than once as a factor ; however, one can focus on elements of such a product that select the same element every time a given set appears as factor, and such elements correspond to an element of the Cartesian product of all distinct sets in the family.

There are rather strict selection rules as to the electronic configurations that can be reached by excitation by light — however there are no such rules for excitation by collision processes.

Note, however, that the fifth article did not completely deny perseverance of the saints ; Arminius, himself, said that " I never taught that a true believer can … fall away from the faith … yet I will not conceal, that there are passages of Scripture which seem to me to wear this aspect ; and those answers to them which I have been permitted to see, are not of such as kind as to approve themselves on all points to my understanding.

" The actual English language form of animism, however, can only be attested to 1819.

Additional mutations, however, may compensate for this fitness cost and can aid the survival of these bacteria.

Smaller parties like the Quebec nationalist Bloc Québécois and the Green Party of Canada can exert their own influence over the political process.

First, let T = T ( s ) be the force of tension as a function of s. The chain is flexible so it can only exert a force parallel to itself.

Being in a coalition allows males to dominate a third individual when they could not by themselves, as politically apt chimps can exert power over aggressive interactions regardless of their rank.

A closing door can exert up to 40 tons per square inch of pressure between the hinges.

When the previously experienced scene fails to come to mind in response to viewing the new scene, that previously experienced scene in memory can still exert an effect — that effect may be a feeling of familiarity with the new scene that is subjectively experienced as a feeling of deja vu, or of having been there before despite knowing otherwise.

" His predisposition for benevolence is clear in the statement " We whites ... must necessarily appear to them in the nature of supernatural beings .... By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded ".

Gas tends to rise, and when a pocket of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > rises in the abdomen, it pushes against the diaphragm ( the muscle that separates the abdominal from the thoracic cavities and facilitates breathing ), and can exert pressure on the phrenic nerve.

Moreover, cell-cell adhesion is often modulated by cell contractility, which can exert forces on the cell-cell contacts so that two cell populations with equal levels of the same adhesion molecule can sort out.

Under some circumstances one moving charged particle can exert a force on another without any return force.

It acts as a scavenger by binding nerve agent in the blood stream before it can exert effects in the nervous system.

In contrast, the more massive globular clusters of stars exert a stronger gravitational attraction on their members, and can survive for many billions of years.

Historically and by the nature of their existence, wealthy individuals and organizations can exert influence over the political arena.

Ramism could not exert any influence on the established Catholic schools and universities, which remained loyal to Scholasticism, or on the new Catholic schools and universities founded by members of the religious orders known as the Society of Jesus or the Oratorians, as can be seen in the Jesuit curriculum ( in use right up to the 19th century, across the Christian world ) known as the Ratio Studiorum ( that Claude Pavur, S. J., has recently translated into English, with the Latin text in the parallel column on each page ( St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2005 )).

James Clerk Maxwell, in 1861-64, published his theory of electromagnetic fields and radiation, which shows that light has momentum and thus can exert pressure on objects.

While electoral results do not necessarily translate into legislative seats, the Liberal Democrats can exert influence if there is a situation such as a hung parliament.

Accordingly, the Liberal Democrats can in theory exert tremendous influence in such a situation since they can ally with one of the two main parties to form a coalition.

To exert extreme tension on the knot without injuring the hands, one can fashion handles using marlinespike hitches made around two rods.

More recent studies using more sophisticated methodologies have generally refuted these findings: density, land use and public transport accessibility can influence travel behaviour, although social and economic factors, particularly household income, usually exert a stronger influence.

This can form a strong defense for the castled king on g1 and the bishop can often exert strong pressure on the long diagonal ( here h1-a8 ).

A knight is best when it has a ' support point ' or outpost – a relatively sheltered square where it can be positioned to exert its strength remotely.

Guanxi can also be used to describe a network of contacts, which an individual can call upon when something needs to be done, and through which he or she can exert influence on behalf of another.