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Example sentences for "third reading"

  • When the division was taken thirty-three votes were recorded for the third reading, but the Chairman ruled that the division was invalid, thirty-four votes, or at least one above half the number of the Landsthing being required.

  • And after agreeing to an amendment, the bill was ordered to a third reading.

  • The committee proceeded through the bill, which was reported to the House with sundry amendments; these were agreed to by the House, and the bill ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

  • There are two readings, and then a Committee of the Whole, followed by a third reading; and there is the familiar rule that no member can speak more than once to the same question, except in Committee of the Whole.

  • Bills are sometimes introduced in the House of Lords with financial provisions which are struck out on third reading.

  • In the House of Lords there is no consideration or report stage, and substantial amendments may be made on third reading.

  • After the galleries were cleared, the bill was agreed to with amendments, and ordered for a third reading to-morrow.

  • It was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, and afterwards passed.

  • The question was put for engrossing the bill for a third reading, and carried, there being fifty votes in favor of it.

  • He had promptly called up his original California bill and had secured its consideration, when the Utah bill passed to a third reading.

  • While dining with some friends from Illinois, he was astounded to hear that the bill had been ordered engrossed for a third reading.

  • Yet it must not be inferred that the bill passed smoothly to a third reading.

  • It was most significant that, while a bill to organize the Territory of Washington passed at once to a third reading in the Senate, the Nebraska bill hung fire.

  • And the bill was ordered to a third reading, and subsequently passed without opposition.

  • No other amendment being offered to the bill, it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

  • No amendments were introduced; and on the 15th of August Lord John Russell moved the third reading, which, after a short debate, was carried without a division.

  • The bill having been subsequently reported, and being moved for a third reading, Mr. Dominick Browne expressed a wish for its postponement.

  • House met to open debate on Third Reading of Home Rule Bill, at special desire of Opposition to be extended over three sittings.

  • This done, Members trooped out in battalions, leaving Hume Williams to spend on wooden intelligence of empty benches able argument in support of motion for rejection of Bill at Third Reading stage.

  • Smith, rising at ten o'clock in half empty House to support motion for rejection of Welsh Church Bill on Third Reading stage, "that debates on this measure are approaching termination.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    conceal their; more interested; nothing would; only through; pushing forward; stout resistance; third degree; third edition; third elected; third estate; third mate; third natural; third part; third parties; third party; third person; third persons; third section; third species; third state; third time; third volume; third voyage; thirds majority; thirds natural; thirds vote