It currently has 12 MEPs and 31 councillors, with three peers in the House of Lords.
Whenever two or three peers are gathered together to discuss the Welsh economy, by tradition one of them raises the Barnett formula (which links changes in spending in English departments to comparable areas in Wales).
Three Labour peers and a crossbencher tabled an amendment during day six of report stage of the Health and Social Care Bill on 8 March 2012, which called for Healthwatch England to be established as a statutory independent body.
Three Liberal Democrat peers rebelled, including Lord Alliance, Lord Carlile of Berriew and Baroness Tonge.
It believes that for the government to use legitimately the Parliament Act the Bill needs to have been rejected by peers three times not twice.
Last week, peers inflicted three defeats on the coalition over proposed changes to eligibility for employment support allowance (ESA) - formerly known as incapacity benefit.
On 23 March 2010, peers approved three parliamentary orders that will enable the creation of a Department for Justice for Northern Ireland on 12 April, despite fierce opposition from Ulster Unionists.
If I were a shareholder invested in a bank that had underperformed almost three-quarters of its peers would I really expect the executives to be rewarded with an incentive for that?
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In those writings, Stump, who died in 1995, depicted Cobb as a miserly alcoholic who bull-whipped his children, removed the stamps from his fan letters to reuse them, and was so despised by his peers that just three baseball people attended his funeral.
The alliance of Labour, crossbenchers, Lib Dem rebels and Northern Ireland peers responsible for the three defeats last week appears to have eroded a little.
But I feel obliged to point out that this banker - like pretty much all his peers - has for three years consistently under-estimated the magnitude of what has gone wrong in Europe's currency union.
Over a three-year period ProLogis has outperformed peers with an annual return of 33.8%, versus 30% for AMB Property and 23.4% for First Industrial Realty Trust.
Over a three-year period ProLogis has outperformed peers with an annual return of 33.8%, versus 30% for AMB Property and 23.4% for First Industrial Realty Trust (nyse: FRPRC - news - people ).
Brown's investing strategy is momentum-based: She owns no-load funds outperforming their peers based on one-, three-, six- and 12-month performance.
Last year, three banks merged with or were acquired by their peers.
Baroness Thomas of Winchester, who tabled the amendment, told peers the reasons in support of the three month waiting period were "compelling", and welcomed the government's change of heart.
Between 1952 and 2009, shares of the largest companies in their sectors by market value each year tended to underperform peers over the following decade by more than three percentage points a year, according to Robert Arnott, founder of Research Affiliates, a Newport Beach, Calif.
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New restrictions on the powers of the Lords were introduced in the 1949 Parliament Act which reduced the time peers could delay a bill from two years over three parliamentary sessions to one year over two parliamentary sessions.
That puts him in arrears of peers Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, who both homered about three times more often than an average player.
The students who were excessively sleepy during the day were three times more likely to have strong depression symptoms than their well-rested peers, Dr. Siddique and his colleagues found.
Peers would only be able to reject a Bill for two years over three successive parliamentary sessions.
By the age of three kids from poor families are already going to be way behind their middle-class peers.
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It's hard to pinpoint the moment exactly, amid the echoing cheers and crashing surf at the Ocean Course here, but while an aging Woods was battling demons and salvaging pars three groups ahead, the youthful McIlroy was posting birdies, banging drives 60 yards past his peers and conjuring short-game magic the way Woods used to do.
Over the course of a school year, each of Eagle County's 470 teachers is evaluated three times and is observed in class at least nine times by master teachers, their principal and peers called mentor teachers.
DiMicco's own compensation involves three-year performance metrics tied to return on equity, return on capital and revenue growth relative to steel industry peers.
Advocates of the arduous policies noted that a sales-tax increase of three percentage points, to 21%, merely puts Spain's tax in line with that of its EU peers.
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