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Definition of Backbenchers
1. backbencher [n] - See also: backbencher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backbenchers
Literary usage of Backbenchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Apart from Mr. Baldwin he has few friends even among his colleagues, and the
backbenchers hardly know him at all, for he is not easily approachable in the ..."
2. Lord Lothian and Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1940 by David Reynolds (1983)
"... such feelings were particularly associated with Chamberlain, his Treasury
advisers and Tory backbenchers, together with certain senior Foreign Office ..."
3. Magna Charta for America: James Abercromby's "An Examination of the Acts of by Jack Phillip Greene, James Abercromby, Charles F. Mullett, Edward C. Papenfuse (1986)
"He seems to have been one of those dependable backbenchers who rarely spoke and
usually voted with the administration, though he followed Grenville into ..."
4. Politics of Compromise: NATO and AWACS by Arnold L. Tessmer (1995)
"... political systems can afford the risk of seeking funds for $75 million airplanes
without a convincing argument for backbenchers and the electorate. ..."
5. Conflict and Growth in Africa by Jeni Klugman, Bilin Neyapti, Frances Stewart (1999)
"Indeed. in 1969 and 1974 only about one- quarter of the parliamentary backbenchers
were re-elected. "Political life remained remarkably open and its press ..."
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