| 单词 | life peer |
| 例句 | Mr. Thomas was made a life peer in 1981 as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, taking his mother’s maiden name as his title. Hugh Thomas, Prodigious Author of Spanish History, Dies at 85 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Hart, who was active on the London arts scene as a producer of plays and poetry readings, was known formally as Lady Saatchi: her husband was named a life peer in 1996. Josephine Hart, Author of Best-Selling ?Damage,? Dies 2011-06-06T02:32:46Z A life peer since 1999, he will retain his title, Lord Foster, but will no longer be able to attend the House of Lords, nor vote there. Norman Foster in the Lords: what might have been 2010-07-12T10:45:00Z In 1991, she was named a Conservative life peer under the title Baroness James of Holland Park. Crime Novelist P.D. James Dies at 94 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z She also served as a BBC governor and was a Conservative life peer. 'She was anything but conventional' 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z There are exceptions: Some women, like the late Baroness Margaret Thatcher, become "life peers" by the monarch's appointment, not by inheritance. In UK, aristocrats still face 'Downton' dilemma 2013-04-12T14:27:08Z Yet Pollard and her real life peers weren’t just a punchbag for the press. Seinfeld and Simpsons – why your favourite TV show is problematic 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z But Lord Turner, a life peer in the British Parliament, thinks a complete rethink is needed. Fresh thoughts 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He was introduced as a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords in 2015. Lord Bob Kerslake: Former Civil Service head dies aged 68 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Despite his aversion to European integration, he divided his time increasingly between London — where, as a life peer, he was a lawmaker in the House of Lords — and a home in Gascony, in southwest France. Nigel Lawson, Economic Force Under Thatcher, Dies at 91 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z He harboured parliamentary ambitions which were never realised but eventually he was made a life peer and delighted in entertaining leading society figures, as well as the movers and shakers in the Labour Party. Obituary: Betty Boothroyd 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z He said his father, James Douglas-Hamilton, a member of the House of Lords as a life peer, and mother were fully supporting him. Adventurer attempts Antarctic row following heart surgery 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Before being made a life peer in 2010, True had been leader of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and before that had worked in John Major’s policy unit when he was prime minister. New cabinet: Who is in Liz Truss's top team? 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But if Boris Johnson gets his way, another 50 life peers could soon be bending elbows in the chamber’s rarefied dining rooms. The House of Lords is a bloated relic. Boris Johnson could make it bigger. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Lady Howe retired from politics in 2020 after she served as a life peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords. Baroness Elspeth Howe dies aged 90 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Made a life peer in 2001, she launched herself into a campaign for a statue in Whitehall to commemorate the part women played in World War Two. Obituary: Betty Boothroyd 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z He was previously a member of the House of Commons from 2001 to 2015, before he was made a life peer. Lord Barker resigns from Russian oligarch-linked firm EN+ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z He was awarded France’s Legion of Honor in 1986, knighted in 1991 and named a life peer, Baron Rogers of Riverside, five years later. Richard Rogers, high-tech modernist who won architecture’s Pritzker Prize, dies at 88 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The life peers — many of them already well-to-do — earn only a gig rate. The House of Lords is a bloated relic. Boris Johnson could make it bigger. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Later he became a life peer and a Companion of Honour. Obituary: Richard Rogers 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Baroness Floella was introduced to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2010, and made a Dame in the last New Year Honours list. Baroness Floella Benjamin given Bedtime Story 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z After standing down in 2014, he became a life peer and sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. Bercow 'categorically' denies bullying allegations 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z After standing down as an MP in 2015 Darling became a life peer and joined the board of Morgan Stanley, the US investment bank. Lehman Brothers collapse: where are the key figures now? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The life peer - who resigned from the House of Lords in 2015 after being filmed allegedly taking drugs - said the convention bearing his name has "worked well" up until now. Brexit powers row 'not constitutional crisis' 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z When her husband Ted was made a life peer she became a "Lady", but Barbara refused the title until she received one in her own right in 1990. Political heroes: Emily Thornberry on Barbara Castle 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Sacks, who holds the title “emeritus chief rabbi”, was made a life peer in 2009. UK's former chief rabbi defends his help for Pence's Israel speech 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Arthur Moyle, who started his life as a bricklayer, was parliamentary private secretary to Clement Attlee during the 1945-1951 Labour government, before becoming a life peer and the former PM's literary executor. The MPs and ex-MPs who died in 2017 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z King, now 70, retired from the Bank in 2013 and became a life peer. Lehman Brothers collapse: where are the key figures now? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z There are 683 such “life peers,” 91 “hereditary peers” who inherit their titles, and 24 bishops. Talk About Peer Pressure! U.K.’s House of Lords Prepares to Get Smaller 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Lord Keen, a former chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party, was made a life peer in 2015, Advocate General Richard Keen charged with firearms offence - BBC News 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z He was bought up in north Wales and Lancashire and was made a life peer in 1999. Former Welsh Lib Dem leader Lord Carlile quits in Lords - BBC News 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Although life peers are appointed by the Queen, it is the prime minister who nominates them. Is Nigel Farage heading for the Lords? - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Following the defeat to Labour, he relinquished his seat and returned to the Lords as a life peer. Premiers past: What now for Cameron? - BBC News 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z He believed he received those messages because of his status as the first Muslim life peer in the House of Lords, he said. Muslim peer Lord Ahmed receives 'suspicious package' in post - BBC News 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z He became interested in politics as a schoolboy, before going on to serve as a Labour Party MP in southwest London and being made a life peer in 1992. This Man Fled the Nazis and Is Now Saving Child Refugees 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The Labour life peer was speaking at the BioWales conference in Cardiff. Lord Robert Winston warns of Brexit 'disaster' for universities - BBC News 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The former university lecturer, who earns a salary of more than £100,000, was made a life peer in 2004 by Tony Blair and sits in the Lords as a non-party crossbencher. Lords Speaker Lady D'Souza 'spent thousands on keeping cars waiting' - BBC News 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z He was made a life peer last month. Jeremy Corbyn not learning from Miliband defeat - Livermore - BBC News 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1970, he was a member of the House of Commons for nearly 25 years, and concluded his career with decades in the House of Lords as a life peer. Geoffrey Howe, Cabinet Minister Who Hastened Thatcher’s Fall, Dies at 88 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Of these, the majority are known as life peers, 92 are hereditaries and 26 are Church of England bishops. House of Lords: Does size matter and other talking points? - BBC News 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Lord Winston, a Labour life peer, said he was not speaking politically "but simply looking at it financially". Lord Robert Winston warns of Brexit 'disaster' for universities - BBC News 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Three former Scottish MPs and the Scottish founder of lingerie firm Ultimo are to be made life peers. Ex MPs Darling, Campbell and Bruce made peers alongside entrepreneur Mone - BBC News 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z He became a life peer in 1992 after stepping down as an MP. Former chancellor Geoffrey Howe retires from House of Lords - BBC News 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z That way, they can distinguish between fact and fiction, stereotype and reality and the characters onscreen vs. their real life peers. How Mental Illness is Misrepresented in the Media 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z She became a life peer in the House of Lords in 2013. Meet the Smith Commission 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Football boss and Apprentice TV show star, Karren Brady, is among 22 new life peers announced by the government. Brady and Rose among new life peers 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z A few years earlier, in 1958, the first life peers were created in the House of Lords. Peers' battle to stay in the Commons 2013-07-26T08:03:50Z She lived to see the passing of the Life Peerages Act in 1958, but died before the first women took their seats as life peers in the Lords in October the same year. Suffragette post box attack ceremony 2013-06-02T07:33:11Z Lord King, a former teacher who was created a life peer in 1999, led the council for 10 years until 2007. Funeral for UK's first Sikh peer 2013-01-17T02:16:59Z Gold, who is also a Conservative life peer in Britain's House of Lords, last year set up a strategic litigation advisory firm - David Gold & Associates. Rolls hires lawyer Gold for internal ethics review 2013-01-10T07:58:55Z In 1997 he was made a life peer in recognition of his work. Memorial service for Lord Morris 2012-10-12T18:05:14Z Dr Meg Russell thinks that enabling life peers to retire is the "necessary next step". Peers' battle to stay in the Commons 2013-07-26T08:03:50Z So for the time being, at least, life in the Lords will carry on as normal with the political parties appointing new life peers. What now for Lords reform? 2012-08-07T14:47:23Z Marshall was made a life peer in 1998 and assumed a plethora of directorships. Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge 2012-07-10T13:58:45Z In 1893 he was raised to the bench as a lord justice of appeal, and in the next year was made a lord of appeal in ordinary and a life peer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Made a life peer in 1992, he became Lord Advocate in 1996, holding the position for five years after which he became a Law Lord. Supreme Court judge dies aged 66 2011-06-26T22:52:37Z Reid - who held nine cabinet posts, including Defence Secretary - stood down as a MP for Airdrie and Shotts last year, becoming a life peer and taking the title Baron Reid of Cardowan. Reid to exit as Celtic chairman 2011-06-03T16:53:07Z A sprinkling of life peers would aggravate instead of lessen the difficulty. Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z More political than his father, he took the Conservative whip when he became a life peer in 1985. Lord Wolfson obituary 2010-06-17T17:56:00Z How many of the 700-odd existing life peers will remain the Lords under a so-called "grandfathering" scheme while new peers are elected? Giving ground? 2010-05-20T14:23:00Z Third, appointing 160 or more new life peers, when there is a commitment to early legislation for an elected house, risks creating a further obstacle to reform. Letters: Picking apart the coalition agreement 2010-05-17T23:05:00Z But the opportunity to resume political activity as a life peer eluded him. Sir Michael Angus obituary 2010-04-15T17:50:00Z That same year, he was made a life peer and sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords. 2010-01-23T02:04:00Z In 1876 he was made a lord of appeal and a life peer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" How will the surviving life peers be chosen? Giving ground? 2010-05-20T14:23:00Z The appointment of life peers might be desirable, he said, but it was not easy to arrange, nor could its effect be great. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Footnote 669: As has been pointed out, the pledge was redeemed in 1907 by a measure fixing the minimum number of life peers at 150 and the maximum at 170. The Governments of Europe We might flood the Lords with life peers, but leave the veto. Post-Prandial Philosophy These various defects would have been lessened if the House of Lords had not resisted the creation of life peers. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History The lords spiritual are representative life peers—they are the senior bishops, and they are appointed to represent a corporation—the Established Church. Mankind in the Making He was in constant attendance at the House of Lords, and during the same session he proposed, without success, a measure which would have added a limited number of life peers to the Second Chamber. Lady John Russell Within these limits, the power of the Emperor to create life peers is absolute. The Governments of Europe If the power of creating life peers had been added, the mitigating influence of the responsible executive upon the House of Lords would have been as good as such a thing can be. The English Constitution If the revolution is powerful enough and eager enough to make an immense number of life peers, probably it will sweep away the hereditary principle in the Upper Chamber entirely. The English Constitution But a life peer who had fought his way up to the peers, would never think so. The English Constitution A moderate number of life peers would almost always counsel moderation to the Lords, and would almost always be right in counselling it. The English Constitution Footnote 432: By law of December 29, 1831, it was stipulated that only life peers might thereafter be appointed, and the king was required to take all appointees from a prescribed list of dignitaries. The Governments of Europe Another reform ought to have accompanied the creation of life peers. The English Constitution The proposal to create life peers was proposed by the antagonistic party—was at the moment likely to injure his own party. The English Constitution Lord Lyndhurst said the Crown could not now create life peers, and so there are no life peers. The English Constitution The abolition of proxies would have made the House of Lords a real House; the addition of life peers would have made it a good House. The English Constitution There ought to be many life peers in our secondary chamber capable of giving us this higher criticism. The English Constitution A few years ago the Queen very wisely attempted to make life peers, and the House of Lords very unwisely, and contrary to its own best interests, refused to admit her claim. The English Constitution The life peers who would have been then introduced would have been among the first men in the country. The English Constitution |
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