cross-benches

So a majority of 90 is needed, largely from the cross-benches.

More on the mass lobby and the House of Lords Helen 2008

Leader of the opposition Democratic Party, Tony Leon, and his elder brother, Peter, who sat on the cross-benches as a special delegate to the National Council of Provinces, exchanged a friendly wave before proceedings got underway.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

Mr Mentz, MP for Vryheid, will now become the IFP's first voice in Parliament and share the cross-benches in the House of

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

Jack Weatherill sent me an advance welcome to sit with him on the non-party cross-benches in the Lords.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

There they found a crowd of guests, and the men took their seats on benches down the length of the hall, but the women were seated on the cross-benches on the dais, and the bride was rather downcast.

The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown

Lords Cottenham and Campbell sat together, frequently in communication with each other, and occasionally with Lord Denman, who sat near them, at the cross-benches, busily engaged in referring to books and papers.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

Viscount Cecil of Chelwood in 1923, he now took his place on the nonparty cross-benches.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1937 - Presentation Speech 1937

That night the world seemed hushed to listen, the peridom of Britain packing the Gallery with rainbow, and the peerdom those benches and cross-benches, red as massacre and the Scarlet Woman, where thronged

The Lord of the Sea 1906

When he had tended the fire, he sat down upon the cross-benches before the shrine, and, gazing on the image of the Goddess Freya, he fell asleep and dreamed a very evil dream.

Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890

But when Asmund saw Atli he knew him at once, though they had not met for nearly thirty years, and he greeted him lovingly, and put him in the high seat, and gave place to his men upon the cross-benches.

Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890