MPs hoped to reverse Britain's opt-out from the treaty.
国会议员希望推翻英国退出该条约的决定。
MPs waited for the chancellor's announcement.
议员们等待着财政大臣发布公告。
Many MPs are against federation in Europe.
许多议会议员反对欧洲结成联邦。
Opposition MPs charged the minister with neglecting her duty.
反对党议员指责女部长玩忽职守。
MPs were playing the numbers game as the crucial vote drew closer.
在至关重要的表决临近时，下院议员们玩起了数字游戏。
The Prime Minister was involved in a heated exchange with opposition MPs.
首相参与了和下院反对党议员的激烈争论。
A group of Labour MPs, among them Yvette Cooper, are bringing in the new year with a call to institute a UK "town of culture" award.
包括伊薇特·库珀在内的一群工党议员呼吁在新的一年里设立英国“文化之城”奖。
MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.
去年2月，国会议员以压倒性的多数投票支持工党对《儿童与家庭法案》的修正案，其中包括对无装饰包装的监管权力。
Several MPs abstained from voting at the end of the debate.
辩论结束投票时，有几个议员弃权。
Yet only 23 MPs were "brave" enough to sign the "no confidence" motion that exhorted him to.
也仅有23位议员足够“大胆”地对劝说他这一“没有信任”的提议示意。
And although some activists are calling for a cull, few MPs, even among the clean ones, have joined them.
尽管一些激进分子要求挑选出某些议员，甚至一些清白的议员，加入他们。
Talk to any of the MPs from constituencies under the Heathrow flightpath and you will be struck by their fury.
而任何一个希斯罗机场航线经过的选区的议员都会向你表示他们的愤怒。
It also rebuffed MPs' demands for a register of lobbyists.
它还回绝了议员关于说客登记的要求。
But a dose of PR, to elect, say, a fifth of MPs, would go a long way towards correcting the current system's unfairness-especially if the top-up MPs were selected on a regional basis.
但是假设采用比例代表制选举五分之一的国会议员，将需要很长时间来修正现行体系中的不公——尤其是在追加的国会议员以地区选举的情况下。
Lawson has been around long enough to see off pipsqueak MPs, even if their questions are, actually, quite valid.
劳森是老手了，能够赶走无足轻重的议员，尽管他们的问题实际上是非常正当的。
There were signs that this lead would be followed by backbench MPs who feared a backlash from the public.
有迹象表明后座议员们会效仿这种作风，毕竟他们都担忧公众会有过激反应。
"My findings carry no implication or innuendo about the conduct or motive of MPs," Legg wrote.
“我的调查结果对议会成员的行为和动机没有任何暗示及影射，”莱格写道。
That isn't to say that MPs fiddled their expenses because they thought greed was good.
正教不会提及议员乱用他们的开支，因为他们认为贪婪是好事。
But with 258 MPs it is much better placed to recover than, say, the Tories, with 165, were in 1997.
但是，拥有258个议员席位，跟1997年托利党的165个席位相比，情况要好很多，可算恢复。
This is narrowing education and distorting the curriculum by encouraging teaching to the test, concluded a committee of MPs.
一个议员委员会总结道，针对考试的教学正在使教育面变窄，课程也被扰乱。
There is, in general, something different about the newer Tory MPs.
总的来说，保守党的新议员们还是有些与众不同。
New cases are being handled by a revamped system, which the MPs praised.
国会议员称赞到，新的申请案件由改装过的系统来处理。
Tory MPs are mostly cross that they did not win the last election outright.
由于上次选举没有完胜，大多数保守党议员们可谓是大为光火。
The third job is changing the way MPs' finances are regulated.
第三个任务是改变监管议员财务状况的方式。
Only 13 of the 570 MPs who voted in the Commons on Monday opposed Britain's military action in Libya.
在周一的下仪院投票中，570名国会议员中只有13名在英国对利比亚采取军事行动上投了反对票。
The Daily Telegraph has disclosed that 27 MPs are also being investigated by the tax authorities, amid concerns that some MPs who abused their expenses may have broken tax laws.
据每日电讯报透露，目前有27名议员正接受税务机关的调查这些议员可能涉嫌滥用开支并违反税法。
Mr Brown may worry that punishing some MPs will make him still less loved among the rest.
布朗先生可能会担心惩罚一些议员也不会使他在其他人中得到多一点的爱戴。
MPS also seems to allow composing language grammars.
好像MPS还可以编排语言的文法。
Introduce proportional representation for MPs through a single transferable vote.
通过可转移投票法，对下议院引入比例代表制。
The MPs suggested that foreign prisoners could be assessed for deportation while they are still in jail.
国会议员们建议，外籍罪犯在监狱期间可以判定已经离境。
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