The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

The Maritimes, with its much smaller proportion of the national population ( compared to the time of Confederation ) also have an over-representation in the Senate, particularly compared to the population growth of Ontario and the western provinces.

In Australian Senate, there is proportional voting but even though smaller parties have been able to win seats, there is still a trend towards the major parties, whose dominance in the lower house effectively promotes their upper house candidates.

In all bicameral legislatures, the smaller chamber is called the Senate and is usually referred to as the upper house.

Its platform and policies emphasized, inter alia, the rights and responsibilities of the individual, Senate and other democratic reforms, and smaller more fiscally responsible government.

* Nicomedes, the son of king Prusias II of Bithynia, who has been sent to Rome to argue for smaller reparations arising from his father's unsuccessful war against Pergamum, gains the support of the Roman Senate to the point where Prusias sends an emissary with secret orders to assassinate Nicomedes.

The smaller states also desired strong powers for the Senate as a way of ensuring that the interests of more populous states as represented in the House of Representatives did not totally dominate the government.

Its platform and policies emphasized, inter alia, the rights and responsibilities of the individual, Senate and other democratic reforms, and smaller more fiscally responsible government.

The composition of the Senate is smaller in number as compared to the House of Representatives.

The Senate is the Legislative Body with more experienced participants and smaller to allow more deliberative debate on issues.

Committees in the House of Representatives generally have more members, due its larger size, as compared to the smaller 100-member Senate.

The Wisconsin Senate, the powers of which are modeled after those of the U. S. Senate, is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature, smaller than the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the US state of Wisconsin.

Two separate chambers were provided in the finished parliamentary complex, the blue-benched rectangular House of Commons of Northern Ireland ( green benches as at Westminster being considered inappropriate ) and the red-benched smaller rectangular Senate of Northern Ireland.

The North Dakota Senate is the upper house of the North Dakota Legislative Assembly, smaller than the North Dakota House of Representatives.

It was designed by Carl Ludvig Engel as the climax of his Senate Square layout: it is surrounded by other, smaller buildings designed by him.

When the time came for him and Starscream to massacre the Senate, he enslaved Ratbat by bestowing the smaller, weaker cassette body upon him.

The smaller number of members and staggered terms also give the Senate a greater sense of community.

The Senate was also intended to give states with smaller populations equal standing with larger states, which are given more representation in the House.

In the end the Senate approved a smaller cutback, citing a 24 % spike in Amtrak ridership after an oil shock during the summer, but the North Coast Hiawatha remained on the chopping block.

The scheme was to be topped by two towers ; the taller Senate House and a smaller one to the north.

In the Pennsylvania State Senate, most of the Northeast is in the 5th district, represented by Mike Stack, while smaller parts are represented by Shirley Kitchen ( the 3rd district ), and Tina Tartaglione ( the 2nd district ) All are Democrats.

As such, the Senate would bring a federal character to the government, not because senators were elected by state legislatures, but because each state was equally represented in the Senate, which was the main aim of the smaller states.

Illness continued to plague the army, however, and a storm devastated the fleet of 18 men-of-war and innumerable smaller vessels as it returned to Sicily.

A smaller number returned to the Midwest from Oklahoma ( or did not go ) and became the Mesquakie tribe in Iowa ( Meswaki Settlement, Iowa ).

The smaller piece is returned to its place between the other two matzot.

It has been a year and one month since their departure from Thailand, and Richard has returned to his home in the United Kingdom where he has not heard from Françoise and Étienne again, but knows he is likely to bump into them eventually because " the world is a small place, and Europe is even smaller ".

In 1937, Prima and his smaller gang ( Federico, Masinter, Pinero, and Meyer Weinberg on clarinet ) returned to the " Famous Door " in New York to perform.

A second slightly smaller one, after spending many years on private property in Merrifield, Virginia, perched over Lee Highway ( US Route 29 ), has now been returned to Baltimore, Maryland where it originally graced the former RCA Building on Russell Street.

However, unlike An Age of Kings, The Spread of the Eagle was not a huge success, and afterwards, the BBC returned to smaller screenings with less financial risk.

In 2005 the band returned to their roots: playing shows at the base of ski resorts, summer festivals, smaller venues, and touring throughout the U. S. Band members announced to their fans that the band would take a break from touring in early 2006.

A smaller group returned safely to the US Army fort in St. Louis, Missouri before winter set in.

In the following years, Martini returned with a smaller sponsorship program, restricted to the Italian Rally Championship, which the Martini Racing driver, Gianfranco Cunico, won from 1994 to 1996 with a Jolly Club Ford Escort Cosworth.

Large groups had returned to their partisan hideouts in the mountains and gradually formed smaller partisan units.

The smaller Canadian detachment was unable to locate the target beach and returned to Britain.

Halogen sealed beams now dominate the sealed beam market, though it is considerably smaller than it was before replaceable-bulb composite headlamps returned to the U. S. in 1983.

Kohlberg & Company returned to the investment style that Kohlberg had originally practiced at Bear Stearns and in KKR's earlier years, acquiring smaller, middle-market companies.

They returned to the site days later to finish filming the scene, with a much smaller crowd of paid extras.

In 1972 the Monks moved to smaller premises in Campbelltown and the building returned to its intended use as a hotel, named Ranelagh House.

Following the change of majority in the " Plural Left in the 1997 legislative election he returned in opposition and conquered the presidency of the UDF in 1998, after which he turned it into a unified party rather than a union of smaller parties.

There were smaller skirmishes in Missouri until the fall of 1864 when Price returned to Missouri.

The later ships, such as the Peking or the Passat, returned to being smaller four-masted barques.

As the procession advanced it became gradually smaller as groups of Indians dropped off to work the various fields and finally the priest and acolyte with the musicians returned alone " ( Graham, 178 – 9 ).

He returned to promoting, first organizing concerts at smaller venues, like the Berkeley Community Theatre on the campus of Berkeley High School.

Eventually, Cyberion returned to Earth, establishing a Technis construct on the moon and a smaller base on Earth.

After a while, Sviatoslav returned to defeat these steppe nomads with a smaller force at the town of Snov, thus enhancing his prestige among the populace.

Though he returned to his family, he did not return to school, instead getting a job at the Salt Lake Telegram, a smaller afternoon daily newspaper.

In the meantime President Madison and the Secretary returned to Washington, but by August 27, the British under the command of Captain James Gordon advanced on the capitol a second time, making their approach by way of the Potomac River with two frigates and a number of smaller vessels, reaching Fort Washington, twelve miles down river from the capitol.