Some are hereditary -- that means you're born with it and there's not much you can do about it.
In contrast to the past - especially the days when the Lords were dominated by hereditary peers - Labour is now the biggest party in the Lords, but it can suffer defeats if opposition and crossbench peers unite against the government.
It limited New Labour's "bold" reform to the abolition of places in the Lords for most - but not all - hereditary peers.
The principal titles of barely 30 of the 750-odd hereditary peers were created before 1500.
Among them are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) - a hereditary condition in which there is excessive thickening in the heart muscle, myocarditis, which leads to inflammation of the heart muscle and coronary artery disease.
Indigenous peoples bear witness to these worrisome transformations of hereditary territories and their life-giving resources.
The government retorts that without the support of the hereditary peers (including cross-benchers, admittedly), the Lords would have been unable to defeat the government over the European elections.
He tabled a motion calling for the government to bring forward legislation to enable peers to retire, to end by-elections for hereditary peers, to remove members convicted of a serious criminal offence and to put the House of Lords Appointments Commission on a statutory footing.
Throughout the next decade major trends through an intermix of the life sciences and information technology will involve increasing use of biotechnological processes in understanding life, eradicating hereditary diseases, developing novel bio-industries, and furthering the uses of biomedical products in conserving the quality of life and the environment through the promotion of clean technologies.
Scientists believe that between 5% and 15% of cancers are hereditary and are therefore detectable by gene-based diagnostic tests.
For the by-election of one Labour hereditary peer, he said there had been an "absurd" 11 candidates and just three electors.
And, despite the abolition of the vast majority of the hereditary peers, there is still a powerful pro-hunting lobby amongst peers.
Mr Blair excoriated the Tories for their past opposition to women's votes and a national health service, and their present defence of fox-hunting, General Pinochet, and hereditary peers.
In the event of the death of one of them, a by-election is held in which other hereditary peers belonging to the same party as the deceased can stand.
Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 -- short for breast cancer 1 and breast cancer 2 -- are involved in many cases of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, the institute said.
There are to be yet more papers and more chat about how to finish reforming the House of Lords, in which, after Mr Blair's half-baked stab at it, 92 hereditary peers still sit.
Of course ability and skill are not perfectly hereditary, but neither are those who enter as low-skilled immigrants doomed to remain so.
He half-reformed the House of Lords by evicting most of its hereditary peers.
The forefathers of many hereditary peers won their titles by being the favourites, financial backers or time-servers of former rulers.
The injury isn't hereditary and isn't related to overuse, said Larry Bramlage, the on-call veterinarian representing the American Association of Equine Practitioners.
Her long-suffering husband Denis was given a baronetcy, which is a sort of hereditary knighthood.
Ms Harris said that a family history of breast cancer was more likely to be a case of "bad luck" than a faulty gene, as hereditary breast cancer caused by genetic mutations such as BRCA1 or BRCA2 account for only 5-10% of cases of the disease.
Cross-references to the genealogy of the many Scottish clan chiefs who do not have hereditary titles and who have frequently married into the Scottish and English titled aristocracy are also absent.
The Government will come forward with published proposals for the final stages of House of Lords reform before the summer break - including the next steps we can take to resolve the position of the remaining hereditary peers and other outstanding issues.
The Commons meets at 2.30pm on Monday for Home Office questions, after which the Conservative Mary Macleod proposes to follow-up the Succession to the Crown Bill by removing male preference in the inheritance of hereditary peerages and estates.
Lord Lucas, a hereditary peer whose title is one of the few that can be inherited by woman, thinks he has the answer - An "opt-in" system.
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