Similar words: backbencher, backbeat, workbench, work bench, park bench, black bean, black belt, blackberry. Meaning: n. any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons.
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1. The wisdom of the retired generals and backbench MPs conjoins.
2. The Prime Minister has caved in to backbench pressure.
3. He has the support of a lot of backbench MPs.
4. Between 1974 and 1979, however, backbench power enjoyed something of a resurgence.
5. Not surprisingly, there was enormous backbench pressure on the leadership either to amend the poll tax or to cushion its impact.
6. Such a motion is considered a test of backbench opinion.
7. Backbench rebellions are also likely over the requirement for a father in IVF treatment.
8. Gordon Brown warned senior backbench MPs yesterday that western forces were facing a "new type of threat" in Afghanistan.
9. A larger-than-expected backbench revolt could damage Ms. Merkel's political standing at a time when Europe and the world are calling for more-decisive German leadership to end the debt crisis.
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10. David Cameroninsisted, when questioned this summer by senior backbench MPs, that Britain had "a full-spectrumdefence capability" – a claim denied by all three heads of the armed forces.
11. A backbench rebellion against the UK prime minister turned into a Downing Street coup.
12. The government's proposals for legislation on immigration from Hong Kong, for instance, provoked widespread backbench opposition.
13. No 10 is braced for "one or two resignations" after Stewart Jackson, PPS to the Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson, said he wanted to support the backbench motion calling for a referendum.
14. This goes further than recent disclosures about Stonehouse, an aviation minister and postmaster general, which suggested that he was useful to the Czechs only as a backbench MP.
15. There were signs that this lead would be followed by backbench MPs who feared a backlash from the public.
16. He dismisses the arguments David Cameron used last week to defeat the Tory backbench calls for a referendum on the EU: "In a way he's right.
17. They also have a free vote on a number of backbench amendments to tighten the law on abortion.
18. The motion was defeated, but, astonishingly, almost half of David Cameron's backbench MPs defied his call for them to vote against it.
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