upper chamber

noun

1. upper house.

upper chamber

noun

1. another name for an upper house

Example Sentences

The bill still needs to pass through the upper chamber of parliament, or the Bundesrat.

From TechCrunch

The bill was a top priority for Senate President Wilton Simpson, a central Florida egg farmer, and passed with near-unanimous support in the upper chamber.

From ProPublica

State senators hold broad authority to hand-pick candidates, and selections are almost never questioned before they are confirmed in voice votes in the upper chamber.

From ProPublica

Far more, 81 percent, said the issue of who controls the upper chamber was “extremely” or “very” important to their ballot decision.

From Washington Post

The bill, S.47, which passed the Senate in 2012, was swiftly approved by the upper chamber in 2013 by a vote of 78-22.

From The Daily Beast

A devout, self-described “Christian Zionist,” Inhofe was also the closest thing the upper chamber had to an outright theocrat.

From The Daily Beast

Occasionally the cubiculum terminates in a semicircular recess, as in the upper chamber in Fig. 9.

From Project Gutenberg

In the mysterious upper chamber where the reputations of the future are in the making he passed as the strongest.

From Project Gutenberg

An elective upper Chamber took the place of the appointed Legislative Council a year later.

From Project Gutenberg

His experiments were made in a little workshop behind his home at Friedrichsdorff; and wires were run from it to an upper chamber.

From Project Gutenberg

The upper chamber, or House of Peers, was his creature, since he could create members at will.

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