The First Home Rule Bill of 1886 was defeated in the House of Commons, while the Second Home Rule Bill of 1893 was passed by the Commons but rejected by the House of Lords.

The Bill was subject to sharp criticism from both sides of the House of Commons before passing its second Commons reading in November 2006, but was defeated in the Lords in March 2007.

Throughout May, the House of Commons launched several bills attacking bishops and episcopalianism in general, each time defeated in the Lords.

An amendment to the bill by Lord Teverson that would have ensured that " all parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly must be included in constituencies that are wholly in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly " was defeated by 250 to 221 votes in the House of Lords with 95 % of the aforementioned parties rejecting it.

The Second Irish Home Rule Bill passed the Commons but was defeated in the Lords in 1893.

* December 19 – Battle of Radcot Bridge: Forces loyal to Richard II of England are defeated by a group of rebellious barons known as the Lords Appellant.

The budget passed the Commons, but was defeated by the Conservative majority in the House of Lords.

The story revolves around the lost planet Shada, on which the Time Lords built a prison for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe.

The Bill was defeated in the House of Lords by a massive majority of Conservative and Liberal Unionist peers.

After a Bill to authorise the arrangement with the London and North Western Railway was defeated in the House of Lords in 1863, it was reintroduced the following year, and became an Act of Parliament on 29 July 1864.

The First Home Rule Bill of 1886 was defeated in the House of Commons because of a split in the Liberal Party over the principle of Home Rule, while the Second Home Rule Bill of 1893, having been passed by the Commons was vetoed by the House of Lords.

The Liberal split made the Unionists ( the Liberal Unionists sat in coalition with the Conservatives after 1895 and would eventually merge with them ) the dominant force in British politics until 1906, with strong support in Lancashire, Liverpool & Manchester, Birmingham ( the fiefdom of its former mayor Joseph Chamberlain who as recently as 1885 had been a furious enemy of the Conservatives ) and the House of Lords where many Whigs sat ( a second Home Rule Bill would pass the Commons in 1893 only to be overwhelmingly defeated in the Lords ).

The first, in 1663, was passed by the House of Commons but was defeated in the House of Lords.

In 1792, after a magnificent speech by Pitt, the House of Commons accepted a resolution that the trade should be abolished in stages but this was defeated in the House of Lords.

Speaking on this measure in the House of Lords, Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough said " I trust your Lordships will pause before you assent to an experiment pregnant with danger to the security of property …" Despite a brilliant speech by Romilly, all Bills were defeated.

Romilly's Bill for repeal of the death penalty for stealing in a shop to the value of five shillings was passed by the Commons, but defeated in the Lords on six occasions: 1811, 1813, 1816, 1818 and 1820.

The Lords defeated the second Home Rule Bill by 419 to 41 in September 1893 but Salisbury stopped them from opposing the Liberal Chancellor's death duties in 1894.

He was the target for the anger of the anti-Canning Tories in the Lords, suffering many personal verbal assaults ; when he attempted to get a new Corn Law enacted it was defeated by an alliance of peers led by Wellington.

In opposition, Cranbrook was a strong opponent of the Second Home Rule Bill, which was heavily defeated in the House of Lords.

He fought his third election in one parliament when he was selected to contest the very safe Conservative seat of Ribble Valley in the by-election caused by the resignation of David Waddington to become the Leader of the House of Lords in 1990, but was again defeated at the Ribble Valley by-election on 7 March 1991 when Mike Carr gained the seat for the Liberal Democrats by 4, 601 votes.

This Tory government negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, which pulled Great Britain out of the War of the Spanish Succession ( to the dismay of Britain's allies, including Anne's eventual successor, George, Elector of Hanover ); the peace was enacted despite a Whig majority in the House of Lords, which Anne defeated by creating new Tory peers.

In the next year, when the Peerage Act 1963 ( which among other things gave all Scottish peers the right to sit in the House of Lords ) was being considered, an amendment to similarly allow Irish peers to attend was defeated, ninety to eight.

The Reform Act 1832 led to his departure from the Lords, and is considered to have greatly shortened his life ; he fought strongly for the city corporations, which he claimed the bill treated " with absolute contempt ", but was eventually defeated.

After the " first stage " of reform of the House of Lords was implemented in the House of Lords Act 1999, the Wakeham Royal Commission on the proposal of a " second stage " of reform reported in January 2000.

In 1909-1910 he took an active part in opposing the Liberal government's proposal to abolish the legislative veto of the House of Lords, and in 1911 was created Baron Ravensdale, of Ravensdale in the County of Derby, with remainder ( in default of heirs male ) to his daughters, Viscount Scarsdale, of Scarsdale in the County of Derby, with remainder ( in default of heirs male ) to the heirs male of his father, and Earl Curzon of Kedleston, in the County of Derby, with the normal remainder, all in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

However, even if the proposal got through the British House of Commons ( and the first two attempts, in 1886 and 1893 did not ), the British House of Lords, with its massive unionist majority, was guaranteed to veto it.

Murray represented the City in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and eventually whittled down the bill so much that by the time it was voted on it was simply a proposal to fine the city and disqualify the Provost.

In the 1870s he also made a speech in the House of Lords against a proposal by the Chelsea Waterworks to buy of meadow in Thames Ditton to build reservoirs.

During the debate on the House of Lords Bill, a question arose as to whether the proposal would violate the Treaty of Union.

Under the 2011 Coalition Government draft proposal for Lords reform, the Lords would be either 80 % elected and 20 % appointed, or 100 % elected.

Also in 1921 he was responsible for the House of Lords rejecting a proposal, put forward by Frederick Alexander Macquisten, MP for Argyllshire, to criminalise lesbianism.

Liberty won a major campaign victory when the government dropped the proposal after it was rejected by the House of Lords in October 2008.

The Commons passed a measure allowing this, but the Lords rejected the proposal.

A report from the British House of Lords said, “ There is no definitive list of comitology committees, their functions, activities and membership ”; however, since the European Commission started to maintain a list, it states that “ A list of ‘ comitology ’ committees [...] is published as an Annex to the Annual reports on the work of these Committees [...] as well as in the Register of Comitology .” Moreover, the strongest criticism pertained to the fact that the elected European Parliament ( EP ) had no right to block implementing measures: only the comitology committees could do so, and if they did, the proposal was referred to Council alone, even when the initial delegation of powers was through an act adopted jointly by both Parliament and Council under the co-decision procedure.

At the Bill's third reading on 21 May several members asked about a proposal to exclude the whole of Ulster for six years ; it seemed remarkable, as the proposal was being made as a new amending Bill in the House of Lords, where the government had less support.

Finally, in 1858, the House of Lords agreed to a proposal to allow each house to decide its own oath.

This work, commissioned by the Lords Justices, was an argument against the majority party ’ s proposal that England ’ s coins should be devalued to pay for the war with France.

In 2004, she led the House of Lords opposition to the House of Commons ' proposal to ban hunting with hounds.

On 1 April 2009, an amendment moved by Lord Glentoran in the House of Lords defeated the British Government's proposal and preserved the Common Travel Area.

As they had promised, the Lords accepted the Budget on 29 April 1910 — a year to the day after its introduction — when the land tax proposal was dropped, but contention between the government and the Lords continued until the second general election in December 1910, which resulted again in the Unionists gaining more votes than the Liberals but producing another hung parliament, with the Liberals again relying on Labour and the Irish Party.

The Army Council rejected this proposal but wished to continue to have good relations with Pembroke and the Army Council soon agreed to let the Rump Parliament name Pembroke constable of Windsor Castle ( the House of Lords had been trying to appoint Pembroke to the position since July but had not yet received the support of the House of Commons ), making him essentially the king's jailer.