This bill was brought in by Mr. Tilley as a private member, and not on behalf of the government.
Wilmot as attorney-general certainly had greater opportunities of advancing the cause of Reform than as a private member, and he and Fisher working together were able to exercise a strong influence on the administration.
Griffith as a private member, by which journalists were relieved of the Algerine law under which their profession had previously been carried on.
The Rabbit Act, passed on the initiative of a private member, Mr. E.
The bill was introduced by a private member, Mr. Bell, who has always taken a keen interest in the destruction of this pest.
Wednesday is nearly always occupied with some Bill brought in by a private member, in which a large number of other members are interested.
But Mr. Mellor refused to put such a drastic proposal on the suggestion of a private member.
Bills, as a rule, may be introduced in either house, by the Government or by a private member.
I pity you, my dear Mr. Private Member, I do really.
I pity you, my dear Mr. Private Member, From the bottom of a bottomless heart.
In 1816 a private member, named Curwen, brought forward a fanciful scheme of his own for the amendment of the poor laws, which in effect anticipated modern projects of old age pensions.
The king objected to his readmission after the queen's death, and he was a private member of parliament when he was offered and undertook the governor-generalship of India in March, 1822.
However strictly the thread of personal narrative be followed, biography broadens insensibly into history, and the career of a private member becomes a recognisable part of the fortunes of the nation.
A Bill had been introduced in the preceding Parliament by Mr. Brassey, a private member, which proposed a middle course.
Portentous extracts were read from his speeches as a private member, and his secretary in the House was cross-questioned about them.
Murray, indeed, hinted that when he became a private member of the House of Commons he might go into Opposition.
The adhesion of Pitt, a private member, poor and almost unconnected, was vital to a Government which in the public opinion had already collected every possible element of strength.
And its hopes and gaze were fixed solely on Pitt, a private member, untried in affairs, with scarce a follower in Parliament.
It may, however, save confusion in the mind of a reader unfamiliar with parliamentary practice to insist here upon the distinction between a private member's bill and a private bill.
On the other hand, a change was made in 1901 on the motion of a private member, at a single sitting.
The former is a bill of a public nature introduced by a private member, whereas a private bill is one dealing only with a matter of private, personal, or local interest.
I reminded Mr. Asquith that several of his colleagues had repeatedly assured us that the opportunity offered them by him in November, 1911, was far better than any chances afforded by a private Member's Bill.
It is true that he offered parliamentary time for the discussion of a Second Reading of a private Member's Bill.
The day for such success as could be attained by a private Member's Bill was long passed.
He did neither, but disposed of the matter by promising facilities for a private member's bill which he knew, and which everybody knew, could not possibly pass.
Now, the old suffragists had long since given up hope of obtaining a Government suffrage bill, but they clung to a hope that a private member's bill would some time obtain consideration.
The second was that the Government agree to give full facilities as to time, during the next session of Parliament, to a private member's bill, so drafted as to be capable of free amendment.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private member" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
