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- noun Plural form of
peerage .
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Examples
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Blair's latest list of proposed peerages is really turning into his very own version of Wilson's Lavender List.
EXCLUSIVE: The Questions the Met Should Put to Labour's Head of High Value Finance & Endorsements 2006
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The report states term peerages with a "clearly-defined" time limit should become the only form of new addition to the Lords.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2009
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The police inquiry was opened last month in response to a complaint by Scottish nationalist MPs that Labour had broken the law, which forbids the sale of honours such as peerages and knighthoods.
04/14/2006 2006
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US embassy cable Dr Francis, then chairman of the Commons' Welsh affairs select committee, is also quoted as suggesting that two unnamed AMs could be "made offers they couldn't refuse, such as peerages" so they would resign and vacate their seats.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Thorpe offers the Premium Bonds that chancellor Macmillan began in his only budget, and the life peerages that PM Mac brought to the Lords.
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by DR Thorpe – review Peter Preston 2010
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During Wallis's time at the NoW, it broke a series of intriguing stories about the "cash for peerages" investigation into Tony Blair's government, led by Yates, including the claim that detectives believed Downing Street was trying to wreck their probe by leaking evidence.
Scotland Yard's finest called to account over 'culture of collusion' with the press 2011
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Within hours of the Brown threat, the Labour party's honorary treasurer, Jack Dromey, demanded an inquiry into allegations that Blair had offered peerages to four Labour supporters in exchange for loans to the party.
Jonathan Powell accuses John Yates of 'cavalier' approach over Met inquiry Nicholas Watt 2010
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And so yes, that was Lord Ashcroft, who for so long kept us all in the dark about his adherence to the terms and conditions of his peerage, quizzing the government about the secret process surrounding other people's peerages.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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A senior officer in the Metropolitan police is today accused of adopting a "cavalier" approach to the power of arrest and of indulging in "histrionic gestures" during the "loans for peerages" investigation in Tony Blair's final year in office.
Jonathan Powell accuses John Yates of 'cavalier' approach over Met inquiry Nicholas Watt 2010
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Gordon said that unless Tony let him publish his paper he would demand an inquiry by the Labour party's NEC [national executive committee] into the loans for peerages.
Jonathan Powell accuses John Yates of 'cavalier' approach over Met inquiry Nicholas Watt 2010
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