Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.

the startling statement in a respectable periodical that `` Catholics, if the present system is still in operation, will constitute almost one-third of the House of Lords in the next generation '' ; ;

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

In 1998, during debate on a Succession to the Crown Bill, Junior Home Office Minister Lord Williams of Mostyn informed the House of Lords that the Queen had " no objection to the Government's view that in determining the line of succession to the throne, daughters and sons should be treated in the same way ".

A private member's bill — the Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

In debates in the House of Lords, the archbishop is referred to as " The Most Reverend Primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury ".

* The adoption of those recommendations of the recent House of Lords enquiry into Science and Heritage which have a potential impact on the future of museums.

The Bundesrat (" federal council ", performing the function of an upper house ) is the representation of the Federal States ( Bundesländer ) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian House of Lords.

" Looking on from the House of Lords, the Duke of Argyll wrote that Disraeli " was like a subaltern in a great battle where every superior officer was killed or wounded.

Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords in 1876 when Queen Victoria made him Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

As early as 1839 Russell had adopted the name Liberal Party, but in reality the party was a loose coalition of Whigs in the House of Lords and Radicals in the Commons.

There was a final weak Gladstone ministry in 1892, but it also was dependent on Irish support and failed to get Irish Home Rule through the House of Lords.

It was at this time that a political battle over the so-called People's Budget resulted in the passage of an act ending the power of the House of Lords to block legislation.

Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionist's Ulster Volunteers led by Sir Edward Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster and the threat of mutiny by army officers in Ireland in 1914 ( see Curragh Incident ).

His son, the fourth Baron, held office in the Conservative administration of Edward Heath and was later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

"... the Universal House of Justice has been invested with the function of legislating on matters not expressly revealed in the teachings .... whose exclusive right and prerogative is to pronounce upon and deliver the final judgement on such laws and ordinances as Bahá ' u ' lláh has not expressly revealed ....

This passage was used in Britain by Lord Atkin in his dissenting judgement in the seminal case Liversidge v. Anderson ( 1942 ), where he protested about the distortion of a statute by the majority of the House of Lords.

In April 2004, Equitable Life, a UK life assurance company, sued EY after nearly collapsing following a House of Lords judgement that it had to pay guaranteed annuities held by its policyholders.

From the reign of Richard II, the House of Commons regularly complained about the work of the Court, and in 1390 it petitioned the King to pronounce that the Court could not act contrary to the common law, nor annul a judgement without due process.

The Court found the powers were " not sufficiently circumscribed " and lacked " adequate legal safeguards against abuse ", over-ruling a 2003 High Court judgement upheld at the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords.

Walter v. Lane AC 539, was a judgement of the House of Lords on the question of Authorship under the Literary Copyright Act 1842.

One of the main duties of the Crown is to appoint as prime minister the individual most likely to maintain the confidence of the House of Commons ; this is usually the leader of the political party with a majority in that house, but when no party or coalition holds a majority ( referred to as a minority parliament ), or similar scenario, the governor general's judgement about the most suitable candidate for prime minister must be brought into play.

The party was not listed by Vaz in House of Commons register of Members ' Interests and John Redwood, then head of the Conservative Parliamentary Campaigns Unit, questioned Vaz's judgement in accepting the hospitality.

The Court of Appeal overturned the judgement in 1999, but the House of Lords reinstated it in 2001 ( see Porter v Magill UKHL 67, 2 AC 357 ).

** The White House reserves judgement on the Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage as a " union of a man and a woman ", until Massachusetts legislature and San Francisco courts take further action.

He was nonetheless deemed to have shown poor judgement, and was reassigned as Minister of State and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons on May 26.

For some years his studies had been directed towards the vernacular literature of the Chinese, bringing out translations of Hoei-lan-ki 灰闌記 ( L ' Histoire du cercle de craie ), a drama in which occurs a scene curiously analogous to the judgement of Solomon ; and the 趙氏孤兒 Zhao shi guer kou eul, The Orphan of Zhao, or Orphan of the House Tcho.

The House of Representatives has the exclusive power to initiate an impeachment process and the Senate the exclusive power to pass judgement.

The Governor-General appoints as Prime Minister the member of the House of Assembly who, in his judgement, is best able to command the confidence of a majority of the members of that House of Assembly.

The House of Lords rejected this argument, with the lead judgement ( of Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood ) holding that " the difference between the American system and our own is not perhaps so stark as's argument suggests " and that extradition proceedings should " accommodate legal and cultural differences between the legal systems of the many foreign friendly states with whom the UK has entered into reciprocal extradition arrangements ".< ref >

In the judgement of historians, Marco's influence over Leopold was exercised responsibly, in the sole interests of Christianity and of the House of Austria.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

In the spring, it must have been, he began working on the play that he called The House, which later would be Mannerhouse.

These public efforts were rare because Mr. Rayburn normally did his counseling, persuading and educating long before an issue reached its test on the House floor.

Congressman Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, asked the Department of Justice for its views on these legislative proposals as they related to anti-trust law enforcement.

but they were going up to the Big House after supper, and she had to put on a clean dress and fix her hair a little.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

This section prevents the military departments and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization from carrying out certain transactions involving real property unless they come into agreement with the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

then a porter from Manning's Fish House would trot in with a tray on his head.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

He did not mind the Line itself, which Churchill declared in the House of Commons, on February 27, 1945, he had always believed to be `` just and right '', but he did not want it called by a hated name.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

Parents will drive on Friday night to pick up their daughters after a sorority or House Plan meeting.

Already the President and the First Lady have deputized him to advise on matters ranging from the furnishing of the White House to the renovation of Lafayette Square.

With its coating of gold radiator paint removed -- a gaucherie of some earlier tenant -- it will now occupy its rightful place in the oval Blue Room on the first floor of the White House.

And part of a fabulous collection of vermeil hollowware, bequeathed to the White House by the late Mrs. Margaret Thompson Biddle, has been taken out of its locked cases and put on display in the State dining room.

Daniel personally led the fight for the measure, which he had watered down considerably since its rejection by two previous Legislatures, in a public hearing before the House Committee on Revenue and Taxation.

There was no debate as the Senate passed the bill on to the House.

The senate quickly whipped through its meager fare of House bills approved by committees, passing the three on the calendar.

-- President Kennedy today pushed aside other White House business to devote all his time and attention to working on the Berlin crisis address he will deliver tomorrow night to the American people over nationwide television and radio.