How To Use Life peer In A Sentence
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In 1958 the Life Peerages Act created non-hereditary peerages which would be granted to a person (male or female) for the term of their life.
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He is a life peer and should be in it till death.
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The Act made it possible for a woman to be created a life peer.
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There is no mechanism for those who are chosen for life peerages to give up the role.
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Lord Swan was made a life peer in 1981.
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Twenty minutes later Iād heard a detailed, if rushed, explanation of everything from the meaning of writs patent to the coup enacted by Margaret Thatcher when she managed to secure the title of baronet for her husband, thus ensuring a hereditary aristocratic status for her descendants prime ministers are traditionally granted life peerages, which are not hereditary.
Shaking the Family Tree
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The Life Peerage Act made it possible for people to be given a peerage during their own lifetime without the title passing to their heirs; they were life peers.
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The committee proposes a two-tier system for new life peers in which some would be given no right to attend proceedings in the Lords.
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In 1999 his charity work gained him a knighthood to add to his life peerage from Margaret Thatcher.
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Non-hereditary peers have been created since the Life Peerage Act of 1958; they tend to be more active members of the Lords than many hereditary peers.
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In 1977 he became a Labour life peer.
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He is a life peer and should be in it till death.
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In 1977 he became a Labour life peer.
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A life peerage is no longer a life sentence.
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If you accept a life peerage, you have some power for as long as you want.
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He was made a life peer in 1991.
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She was created a life peer in 1990.
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How on earth does anyone think people got into the House of Lords before the invention of life peerages?
The Sun
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In 2006 he was embroiled in the cash for honours scandal after being made a Labour life peer and minister for defence procurement.
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He is a life peer and should be in it till death.
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With the introduction of life peerages in 1958 (which also allowed peeresses in their own right to sit for the first time), the hereditary element in the House (while still a theoretical majority) declined in its daily attendance.
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He was made a life peer in the New Year's honours list.
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In 1977 he became a Labour life peer.
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The commission will also vet all nominations for life peers, including those made by the political parties, for the highest standards of propriety.
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The script is by Julian Fellowes, probably the first Oscar-winning writer to have been ennobled ā he was made a life peer by being given a barony in the honors list published in November.
Peerless Titles
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He made him a life peer in 1998 along with a whole load of other buddies once he'd shipped out some of the old duffers with legislative reform.
