- In the
political history of Britain,
placemen were
Members of
Parliament who held paid
office in the
civil service,
generally sinecures, simultaneously...
-
Queen Anne "to
prevent the
Court from
swamping the
House of
Commons with
placemen and pensioners", and
described the
process as "anomalous" and "indefensible"...
-
Tories wished to
check the
power of
royal placemen. Tory
desires to
maintain the
absolute ban on
placemen in the
House were
narrowly defeated during...
- from
being a "debating
chamber for notables" to a "club for the shah's
placemen"
during the
Pahlavi era. In the era of the
Islamic Republic, it has shifted...
- executive, and the
threat of
corruption through idle,
useless officials, or
placemen, had
figured prominently in
their explanations of
their exile in America...
-
executive had
grown too
powerful by the
abuse of
patronage and
government placemen in the
Parliament of
Great Britain. They also
accused Walpole personally...
- "Eurasian
Development Bank". "Andrei Belyaninov". Кино- Театр .ru. "Putin's
placemen pull the strings". The Telegraph. Lantratov, Konstantin. "Military-Industrial...
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Scottish Parliament. The parliamentarians, politicians, aristocrats, and
placemen moved to London.
Scottish law
remained entirely separate from
English law...
- the
Iraqi police force. He used the
position to fill the
force with his
placemen, a
tactic that he
would repeat in
subsequent positions; that was a basis...
-
published a
manifesto calling for
annual Parliaments, the
exclusion of
placemen and
pensioners from the
House of Commons,
outlawing bribery in elections...
