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Example sentences for "both houses"

  • We see, in both houses, men distinguished among the framers, friends, and advocates of the Constitution.

  • The queen of the Suevi bewailed the death of a husband inhumanly massacred by her brother.

  • As this last request was accompanied by a positive promise to obtain the King's consent to the assembling of Parliament, it was at once granted; and soon after writs were issued for the meeting of both Houses in July following.

  • Of course we all remonstrated--after it was too late.

  • But in daily living; in confronting that ceaseless array of "all things that are done under heaven," the average person cannot stop to think out just how this game of bridge or that horse-race interferes with love of God or man.

  • V's, I guess, and they think she's something wonderful.

  • But the first four or five years of a child's life are of preeminent importance.

  • It is also the residence of the President, of all the highest officers of the government, of both houses of Congress, and of all the foreign ambassadors.

  • Passed, it is believed, unanimously in both houses.

  • This sound principle has happily been recognized in some form or other by an almost unanimous vote of both Houses of the last Congress.

  • His Majesty's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament.

  • But of all his pieces in Prose, the King's Mock-Speech to both Houses of Parliament, has most of spirit, and humour.

  • The most prominent men in both Houses of the Legislature will speak.

  • The bill will not pass, though the best men in both Houses favor it.

  • Copies were sent also to every member of both Houses of Parliament.

  • I had secured Mr. Langton, who had a most extensive acquaintance with members of both houses of the legislature.

  • His friends were numerous also in both houses of the legislature.

  • But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house, respectively.

  • OPENS the certificates, in presence of both houses.

  • When an amendment is proposed by two-thirds of both houses of congress, is it necessary to secure the approval of the president?

  • When the grant was rescinded, both houses of the Georgia Legislature marched in solemn state to the Capitol front and burned the deed.

  • While in both houses of Congress are legislators who represent the almost extinguished middle class, their votes are as ineffective as their declamations are flat.

  • These land thieves, as was developed in official investigations, had their tools and associates in the Land Commissioner's office, in the Government executive departments, and in both houses of Congress.

  • The several treaties which have been mentioned will be submitted to both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their respective functions.

  • As the stipulations in this treaty involve matters with the competence of both Houses only, it will be laid before Congress as soon as the Senate shall have advised its ratification.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both alike; both armies; both arms; both being; both chambers; both chief; both clauses; both directions; both fore; both girls; both hemispheres; both husband and wife; both instances; both parties; both poles; both races; both senses; both shores; both small and great; both surfaces; both ways; both were; both white and black; bother about; cold weather; morally wrong