It is certainly odd (but not unique: look at Britain's House of Lords) that in such a country nine of the 47 members of the upper house should be non-elected, four of them indeed nominated by the armed forces.
Valentine pleaded guilty in March 2004 to U.S. federal charges of securities fraud, receiving nine months of house arrest and four years of probation.
Next Wednesday, the House of Representatives has scheduled an extraordinary 12-hour debate to act on nine pieces of legislation developed at the initiative of the Congressman and the House Republican Policy Committee, which he chairs.
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Nearly 30 million voters were choosing who will fill 130 seats in the lower house of Congress, 24 Senate seats and nine governor's offices as well as hundreds of local seats.
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The Armada E500 will also include three slots that can all simultaneously house batteries for a total of nine hours of battery life, according to Compaq.
So extreme is his devotion to small government that he was one of just nine House members to vote against the airline-security bill in November 2001.
It was then mangled by the House of Lords, which confidently attached nine amendments to the bill.
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In the vote to re-elect him as Speaker two weeks ago, nine of the 227 House Republicans defected.
He was elected to the City Council in 1966 and two years later was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served for nine years.
The Scrabble board consists of nine RFID circuit boards that house 225 RFID antennas, which read each individual Scrabble square.
Ariel Castro is suspected of imprisoning the women inside his house for nine years or more, allowing them outside only a few moments, and raping them.
The National Lawyers Guild, which says it's representing the three defendants, said Chicago police arrested a total of nine activists Wednesday at a house in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood and then released six of them.
The answer, according to National Journal, is Rep. Chris Gibson of upstate New York, and based on NJ's analysis of his 2011-12 voting record, he's still more conservative than all but nine of that term's House Democrats, four of whom retired rather than try for re-election in GOP-friendly districts.
John Edwards of North Carolina, one of the nine Democrats vying for the White House.
My grandfather was nine, and he ran out of the house in just his shirtsleeves.
So under Congress's 10-year budget window, the House bill is able to pay for seven years of spending with nine years of taxes.
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The Georgian, Grade II-listed Lady Gillford's House has been transformed from a state of dereliction over the past nine years to become the focal point of the archive.
In Turin nine members of the chorus in the local opera house are doing the same, taking only sips of coffee to sustain them.
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As Democrats had hoped, among voters who were against the war in Iraq, almost nine out of 10 said they chose a Democratic House candidate.
The chancellor has a majority of only nine in the Bundestag, parliament's lower house.
The measure was unanimously passed by the 143 lawmakers present in the 275-member house, after lingering in parliament for about nine months, Hassan al-Sineid of the Shiite bloc United Iraqi Alliance said.
On the same day as the Hizbullah attack, Israel killed nine members of one family in an air strike that destroyed a house in Gaza where senior Hamas militants were said to be meeting.
They also controlled redistricting in North Carolina, where they replaced a Democratic plan with a Republican plan that enabled them to win nine of 13 seats despite narrowly losing the popular vote for the House.
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And by the time she was nine, she was in a reform school and was sent to the House of Good Shepherd for Colored Girls in Baltimore for a year, which was quite a dour place, I think.
Sited precariously on the edge of a 650-foot vertical drop, some of the property's retaining walls, which were installed when Cox bought the house nine years ago, are crumbling.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla, 30, became chairman of nine companies in the Aditya Birla group, India's second-largest industrial house, after his father died in late 1995.
Only nine Democrats supported the bill which went through the House on April 18th, and most of those Senators who backed the tax-cutting plan last year do not now favour its extension.
Regional newspapers relish tales of posties' life-saving heroics - resuscitating a choking nine-month-old boy, carrying a blind pensioner out of a burning house or spotting the jaundiced face of someone with liver disease, to name a few real-life events.
The House Judiciary Committee found Joshua Bolten , Mr Bush's chief of staff, and Harriet Miers , the former White House counsel, to be in contempt for not testifying to Congress about last year's sacking of nine federal prosecutors.
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