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back benches

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back benches nplposti in Parlamento occupati dai backbencher
back benchesNella "House of Commons", una delle camere del Parlamento britannico, sono chiamati back benches gli scanni dove siedono i "backbencher", parlamentari che non hanno incarichi né al governo né all'opposizione. Nelle file davanti ad essi siedono i "frontbencher"; vedi anche front bench.


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And while Lane County's politically blue hue kept its legislators on the back benches for much of the 1990s and early part of this decade when Republicans were ascendant, they now will share eight committee chairmanships among them.
No threat of the back benches hangs over their heads should they vote their conscience.
While a member of Parliament, he was banished to the back benches, and later lost an election, because of his outspoken
 
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