Australia (24.7 in the lower house, 38.2 in the upper house) and Canada (24.7 lower house, 37.9 upper house) rank at position 46 out of 189 countries.

The United Kingdom is ranked at 58 (22.5 lower house, 22.6 upper house), while the United States ranks 78 (17.8 in the lower house, 20.0 in the upper house).

He reported that the Upper House had received the electoral law from the Lower House and might suggest some changes. It would then be returned to the Lower House for final approval.

The Parliament of Jamaica is bicameral, consisting of the House of Representatives (Lower House) and the Senate (Upper House).

Chinese wages are even lower, at just 4 of the western German average.

Hubertus Heil (born 3 November 1972 in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony) is a German politician.

German Minister of Economics and Technology Philipp Rösler said that many German firms are already relocating to the US because of lower energy prices.

The National Assembly () is the lower house of the Parliament of Senegal.

There are two houses, the Senate, which is the upper house, and the National Assembly, which is the lower house.

East Frisia or Eastern Friesland (German Ostfriesland East Frisian Low Saxon Oostfreesland ) is a coastal region in the northwest of the German federal state of Lower Saxony.

The upper house customarily has anywhere from 20, 50, or 100 seats, but almost always significantly fewer than the lower house.

As a result, German banks have a lower cost of funding and all else being equal higher profitability.

However, in 2013, some religious hardliners in the lower house tried to legitimate it.

Female candidates actively contested the 68 seats reserved for women in the lower house.

The Council, meanwhile, appears to anticipate the European Parliament s future upper house, with the lower house already elected by all EU citizens.

Consider Kazakhstan, where five million people cast ballots in September for their parliament's lower house.

The first ten floors house an electrical substation which provides power to much of Lower Manhattan.

In order to enjoy the lower rates, the house must be on a special electricity tariff.

In the summertime, the temperatures in the cold pantry would usually hover several degrees lower than the ambient temperature in the house, while in the wintertime, the temperature in the cold pantry would be considerably lower than that in the house.

Somewhat faster demand growth in Germany and a lower external surplus would help not only Germany s trade partners, but also German savers.

The center left Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) took more than 300 of 480 seats in the lower house.

A parliament's lower house is usually composed of at least 100 members, in countries with populations of over 3 million.

If you put carpeting in your house, it's about a tenth of the embodied energy of the entire house, unless you use concrete or wood for a much lower embodied energy.

With the TRT capturing over 75 of the seats in the lower house of parliament, Thaksin is now politically invincible at home.

For the last three years, the ruling LDP Komei Party coalition has dominated the powerful Lower House with a two thirds majority.

NEW YORK In March 1936, Poland s Sejm (the lower house of parliament) almost succeeded in outlawing shechita (slaughter according to Jewish law).

Meanwhile, the German Bundesbank would have lower rates, but southern European banks would be unlikely to have access to that credit for use in their own markets.

For the first time since 1988, on 18 September 2005, parliamentary elections for the Wolesi Jirga (House of the People), the lower house of the Afghan National Assembly, and provincial council elections were held.

On August 23, East Germany s House of Representatives, the Volkskammer, voted for unilateral adherence by the East German Länder to West Germany s Constitution.

As a result, the prime minister is barely muddling through and only by agreeing with the major opposition parties to dissolve the lower house.

Similarly, in India the members of the lower house of Parliament together with weighted votes from the state parliaments elect the head of state.

As a result, Prodi has won a large margin in the lower house, but he has only a handful of extra votes in the Senate.

Now that the DPJ has won the most recent upper and lower house elections, Ozawa s faction has become the largest by far within the party.

His father and grandfather were former politicians who were lower house members, and also, former prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa is a distant relative of his.

Upper German (German ) is a family of High German dialects spoken primarily in the southern German speaking area ( Sprachraum ).

The sharp fall in house prices that followed caused a dramatic downturn in household wealth, leading to lower consumer spending and an overall fall in GDP.

The Committee invites the State party to consider adopting affirmative action programmes to improve the political representation of Travellers, particularly at the level of Dáil Eireann (Lower House of Parliament) and or Seanad Eireann (Upper House of Parliament (Senate)).

Besides researching online forums about how to roach proof my house in Japan, I've consulted the literature, such as the excellent Understanding and Controlling the German Cockroach.

After there was widespread disappointment that no women were elected to the lower house in 2002's general election, four women were appointed to the Consultative Council.

There is evidence that vegetarians tend to have a lower body mass index, lower risk of obesity, lower blood cholesterol levels, lower homocysteine levels, lower risk of high blood pressure, and lower risk of type 2 diabetes.

Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German history, and German politics in addition to the language and literature component.

Lower the mask, dear dentist, lower the mask.

While the election to the newly created Senate was entirely free, the opposition could compete for only one third of the seats in the Sejm (the lower house).

District council elections were postponed indefinitely, following the consensus among political actors that the new lower house of the Assembly should take the final decision on district boundaries.

German taxpayers have paid dearly for German banks mistakes.