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backbencher
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Backbencher is a Canadian radio drama on CBC Radio One . The series was created by Wendy Lill , and is primarily written by Lill, Ed Thomason and Dave Carley . It ran for two seasons (20 episodes) in 2010 and 2011. The series won a Bronze award in the Best ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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backbencher \backbencher\ (b[a^]k"b[e^]nch*[~e]r), n. a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is not a party leader.
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n. a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader
Wiktionary
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alt. (context politics English) A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature. n. (context politics English) A Member of Parliament who does not have ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE conservative ▪ The Charter is up for renewal in 1996, and there are ministers to be lobbied and Conservative backbenchers to be wooed. ▪ It may well have been the desire of many, perhaps a majority, of the Cabinet ...
Usage examples of backbencher.
David Willetts resigned as Paymaster General after being criticised by the Standards and Privileges Committee, and Sir John Gorst said that the Government could no longer rely on his support as a Tory backbencher, which left his party teetering on the brink of losing its overall majority.
One ex-praetor and five backbenchers to form a delegation charged with reasoning with the likes of Caepio?
What I own will not ensure the public careers of my sons, even as backbenchers like their father.
They are not even subordinate officers, despite the fact that I am consul and they are mostly backbenchers who will never know the feel of an ivory curule chair beneath their fat arses.
Whereas Cethegus-a patrician Cornelius remotely related to Sulla-had remained in the background, preferring to wield his power by manipulating his fellow backbenchers in the Senate.
He controls the votes of those backbenchers in the Lentulus clientele.
Sulla then heard that Cinna was actively lobbying many of the backbenchers for their support when Vergilius and another tribune of the plebs, Publius Magius, submitted a motion to the Senate to recommend to the Centuriate Assembly that Sulla be stripped of his imperium and made to answer charges of treason and murder.
The message was given to Pompey, who whooped so loudly that dozing backbenchers almost fell off their stools, then leaped to his feet.
It was going down extremely well among the backbenchers and among those on the middle tiers whose allegiance swayed from side to side like a sapling in a vortex.
Liberators met with no overt hostility, though not one of the backbenchers would go near them in case he should inadvertently touch them.
Only a backbencher, but never mere lobby fodder, this most senior of the Julius Caesars left in the Senate now his older brother, Sextus, was dead.
It was no secret he and Swan had been doing a bit of posturing and jockeying in '95 - the odd fringe meeting or keynote speech - just to see where the land lay with the backbenchers, but as everyone else was at it, it would have been silly not to buy a ticket for that particular raffle.
It's a seat that has always been ours, a good safe seat, in the hands of a respected backbencher of great loyalty and little intellect.