Example sentences of "decision by the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most recent relevant development has been the decision by the House of Lords and a lower court to refer the relevant questions of Community law to the European Court . |
| 2 | The motion that the Prime Minister has proposed for decision by the House tonight is intended to be so meaningless that any Tory Member can vote for it while interpreting it to suit himself or herself . |
| 3 | The right hon. Gentleman will be aware of yesterday 's decision by the House , by 224 votes to 4 , to do something about the shambles about the operation of the Shops Act 1950 . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman has been here sufficiently long to know that yesterday 's decision by the House was simply to give leave to bring in a Bill . |
| 5 | Bush objected fiercely to a decision by the House of Representatives on Aug. 2 , 1989 , to halve the funding available for mobilizing the missiles on the rail network . |
| 6 | The source of the confusion is the poor quality of the reasoning in Street v Mountford itself ; it is somewhat surprising , and not a little disturbing , that a unanimous decision by the House of Lords on such an important issue should be represented in a single judgment notable for its ambiguity … |
| 7 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
| 8 | However , the purchaser should be aware that the effect of the decision by the House of Lords in the recent case of Walford v Miles [ 1992 ] 1 All ER 453 is that the purchaser can achieve exclusivity only in the sense that the vendor undertakes not to negotiate with a third party for a fixed period . |