The Speakership contest enlightened me as regards more things than the attitude of the bosses.
A week or so after the Speakership incident Senator Platt asked me to come and see him (he was an old and physically feeble man, able to move about only with extreme difficulty).
The third year the Republicans carried the Legislature, and the bosses at once took a hand in the Speakership contest.
In retiring from the speakership of the House, which he had held so long, Clay received the formal and hearty thanks of that body for his undeniably distinguished services as presiding officer.
In the summer of 1814 Clay resigned his speakership of the House of Representatives to accept a diplomatic mission as Peace Commissioner to confer with commissioners from Great Britain.
An unprecedented struggle for the Speakership began with the opening of the Thirty- fourth Congress, and lasted till the second day of February, when the free States finally achieved their first victory in the election of Banks.
The struggle for the Speakership in this Congress, which lasted eight weeks, was also a first-rate training school for Republicanism.
The Speakership was obviously the first question on which the slave power must be met in the Thirty-first Congress.
The strife over the Speakership had necessarily involved it, and constantly provoked its animated discussion.
That's the reason the speakershipbecomes such a terrible struggle.
This appointing of the committee is supposed to save time, and yet the speakership contest consumes weeks, sometimes months.
He resigned the speakership in order the more effectually to lead the opposition to a bill chartering a State bank.
These gentlemen were all prospective candidates for the Speakership of the then recently elected House of Representatives.
In old days, as we have seen, the Speakership was often a stepping-stone to some higher appointment.
The physical qualifications necessary for the Speakershipinclude a clear, resonant voice and a commanding presence.
Of his nominee for the Speakership Lord John declared that he had "parts, temper, and constitution.
It was not until the Speakership of Shaw Lefevre that any serious changes were made in the business methods of Parliament, and Rules and Standing Orders devised to expedite business and reduce waste of time to a minimum.
The Committee could easily have secured its adoption, for the vote on the Speakership had not fully represented the strength of the Opposition, who on several questions were able to command a majority of from ten to eleven.
He had served in the Senate with Van Buren; he had taken a leading part in the convention of 1821, and he had held, with distinction, the speakership of the Assembly and the presidency of the Senate.
Thorarin's surname was Ragi's brother; he had the Speakership of the Law after Rafn Heing's son.
Thorgeir the priest of Lightwater gives up the Speakership of the Law.
It is not too much to say that Clay made the speakership one of the important American institutions.
Mr. Canning offers Mr. Williams Wynn the Speakership of the House of Commons.
His election to the Speakership on his first appearance in the House gave him, at once, national standing.
During the thirteen years of his Speakership not one of his decisions had been reversed; and he had presided over the turbulent and restive House with that perfect blending of courtesy and firmness which at once restrains and charms.
After the Speakershipcontest was over he refused to receive a delegation of women and declined to allow any member of the Ratification Committee to approach him.
It was early seen that the fight for the Speakership might endanger the ratification program and the women were careful to take no part in it.
Subsequently, however, he was induced by his friends to take the speakership of the legislative assembly, but he had never forgiven what he considered a slight at the hands of the prime minister in 1851.
The duress to which the House was subject became tighter and harder than before, and the Speakership entered upon a development unparalleled in constitutional history.
The fact has since been disclosed that he had made up his mind to resign the Speakership and retire from public life had his party failed to support him.
No two were worded alike, albeit each commanded and demanded the Speakership for Mr. Frost.
Mr. Hawke had long been aware of Senator Hanway's interference against himself in the Speakership fight, and in favor of Mr. Frost.
The statesman opposed to Mr. Frost for the Speakership was a personage named Hawke.
You are inclined, apparently, to regard a Speakership as you might a swarm of bees; you think one has only to beat a tin pan long enough or blow a tin horn loud enough in order to hive it according to one's wish.
There are certain contingencies touching the next Speakership of the House which should interest his paper.
He was for issuing forth to vociferate and slap members upon their backs and jovially arrange committeeships on the giffgaff principle of give us the Speakership and you shall become a Chairman.
It was by remembering those committee hopes and fears of members, and adroitly fomenting them, that Senator Hanway expected to control the Speakership election.
Schimmelpenninck was offered the speakership of the assembly for life, but he refused.
In a few hours the question of the Speakership will be decided, and there will at least be the gain (wherever the loss may fall) of getting rid of a subject which has become intolerably tiresome.
The non-partisan aspect of the English speakership sets the office off in sharp contrast with its American counterpart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speakership" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
