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- noun Plural form of
cross-bencher .
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Examples
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The big disappointment – and the reason why this amendment was not successful – was the way that the cross-benchers broke in favour of the government.
Welfare reform bill: household benefit cap Lords debate - Monday 23 January 2012
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Well, Lady Sylvia Hermon announced her resignation from the UUP yesterday, which means that for the first time since the party was founded it does not have a single member in the House of Commons (there are handful of cross-benchers in the House of Lords who remain affiliated with the party).
North Down latest nwhyte 2010
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My colleague Tom Clark assesses what happened:Once again the cross-benchers disappointed, with the balance going with the government, although by a less decisive margin this time.
Welfare reform bill: household benefit cap Lords debate - Monday 23 January 2012
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By tradition, ex-service chiefs, on ascending to the Lords, become cross-benchers, staying above party politics.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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By tradition, ex-service chiefs, on ascending to the Lords, become cross-benchers, staying above party politics.
The Man Who Would Be a Peer: General Sir Richard Dannatt 2009
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By tradition, ex-service chiefs, on ascending to the Lords, become cross-benchers, staying above party politics.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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The current proposal would destroy the often significant role of cross-benchers and must lead to the Lords becoming a rather more elderly version of the Commons, with negative party politics and supine support for the Government replacing independence and a lack of fear to say No when necessary.
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Many of them were cross-benchers, which is to say they were independent politically and could vote whichever way they liked.
The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana 2000
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There are the well-meaning and the ill-meaning -- and again the incoherent cross-benchers, who mean a little good and a little harm and for the most part mean nothing at all either way.
The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919
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Government says it can meet mining tax demand THE Federal Government says it can meet the competing demands of cross-benchers and push its new mining tax through Parliament.
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