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Lords

(British, UK politics, plurale tantum) the House of Lords

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Upper House Senate

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Simple sentences

The British Parliament is divided into the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Do you know that the ravens are all under the protection of the Lords of Ravenswood?

Movie subtitles

My voice I raise by tones of bells In praise of the Lord of Lords.
Kitty wants to go see all the great big lords and ladies. in their big, beautiful house.
In the presence of these Lords of Christendom I grant thee the royal privileges that thou shalt rule by my side and share my crown and only death shall deprive thee of this power.
If it please my Lords, I will first read a list of the mutineers who seized my ship.
Unto Adonai and Azrael, into the keeping of the lords of the flame and lower pits I consign this body to be forevermore consumed in this purging fire.
My lords, I thank you.
My lords and ladies, I would like to present to you Sir Robin of Locksley.
If you don't fight willingly, my lords, the peasants will break your bones!
The dinosaurs were lords of creation for about 200 million years.
He'll introduce you to the Lords as intimate friends of Junius.
They should spend tomorrow as guests of the Lords.
You have to be rich as the Lords to live in a dump like this.
And now, my lads, will one of you take a look in your crystal globe. and tell these lords and gentlemen where. our old friend Leech is hiding?
You can tell these lords and gentlemen. they can rest easy in their plush chairs, Sir Henry.
They're generous and behaving like lords.
If humankind can acquire the same powers through forced evolution, The Blessed are no longer fit to serve as the lords of creation.
They treat us worse than they treat you drug lords.
Think it over and you will never have to work for your lords.
The lords take us everything - our properties, freedom, lives - we shall not spare them!
Thank you, My Lords.
Here you are, My Lords.
I wish you both good night, My Lords.
My Lords. we are to hear from Her Majesty's own lips today. her decision on a matter. that is near to all our hearts.
I've seen him quit the House Of Lords in the middle of a speech in the same way. You can send me a cheque in the morning.
Where did the two lords go? What are these strangers doing in their cabin?
We took them from home, but the two lords invited us for dinner.
So these two gentlemen said they were lords?
Where did the two lords go?
Yes! How long have you known these two lords?
And so the countesses and the lords ate dinner together?
These two lords are as much lords as you're countesses.
See, that's how lords are traveling.

News and current affairs

At the moment, Afghanistan's drug lords are prospering, and rural communities are suffering.
Labour wants to reduce the House of Lords' membership by half and hold referenda on making it wholly elected and on changing the voting system.
The new Lords of Finance have arguably been successful in many of their objectives since the financial crisis erupted seven years ago.
There are four Muslims in the House of Lords and three in the House of Commons, more than for some other ethnic minorities.
His arrest, and the House of Lords' later approval of it, legitimized the idea of prosecuting the former dictator.
The Italian president can also compel parliamentary deputies to rethink their decisions (in the United Kingdom, the monarch has outsourced this authority to the House of Lords).
The king seized the estates, and sometimes the person, of wealthy lords or merchants and demanded hefty payments for their release.
Second, the US, with its incredibly lax restrictions on gun purchases, serves as a veritable arms depot for rich Mexican drug lords.
The House of Commons passed the legislation in January, but in April the House of Lords voted to send it to a joint parliamentary committee for additional scrutiny.
Child soldiers still linger in paramilitary groups, and there are compromising video recordings of leading Colombian politicians and drug lords.
Drug lords rule by fear over entire communities.
More recently, in October 2009, the United Kingdom, despite having no written constitution, replaced its supreme judicial body, which sat in the House of Lords, with a Supreme Court.
LONDON - From next year, on swearing allegiance to the Queen, all members of Britain's House of Lords - and I am one of them - will be required to sign a written commitment to honesty and integrity.
Their plight evoked some sympathy (Lord Byron made a brilliant speech in their defense in the House of Lords); their arguments, however, did not.
In the House of Lords, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, a former Lord Chancellor, moved an amendment requiring the bill to distinguish between marriage (same sex) and marriage (opposite sex).
The arguments on both sides have been of high quality, especially in the House of Lords.
NEW YORK: Britain's law lords will begin to decide this week (after botching the first attempt) whether General Augusto Pinochet should continue to be detained for possible extradition to Spain.
In December 1992, Margaret Thatcher suggested in a speech in the House of Lords that, if all went well, Hong Kong could have universal suffrage by 2007.
Moreover, Colombian tolerance for the drug lords - Pablo Escobar, perhaps the most notorious, had been elected to Congress - was evaporating.
For example, the proposal of the relatively unknown Jonathan Hill, the leader of the UK House of Lords, as the British member of the new European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker was just the latest in a long series of British EU errors.
At that time, I was a member of the Opposition Front Bench - or Shadow Government - in Britain's House of Lords.
The police are at best useless and at worst outright employees of the drug lords; the army is less tainted, but unprepared for the role.

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