0 a lawmaking body, especially the upper house of the parliament in some countries -- thượng nghị viện
(also adjective) a senate committee.
1 in ancient Rome, the chief legislative and administrative body. -- hội đồng nhà nước cao nhất
In this sample, 65 elections were decided by majority votes in the state house and state senate, and 48 elections were decided in joint session.
What happened was this : in not permitting the students to discipline their inferiors, the senate had undermined their claims to being gentlemen.
Second, the senate, the members of which served for nine years with the body renewed every three, remained untouched by the reform.
It came at a time when congress and the senate were not allowed to alter budget legislation.
This meant imposing bureaucratic standards of rationality and accountability on recalcitrant professors, academic senates, and rectors.
Irregular professors had the jus promovendum, and were members of the faculty and senate, but they lacked the power to vote in these decision-making bodies.
The ceremony ended with the departure of the senate.
Just as the senate's adoption of pomp and ceremony, it was designed to shore up and intensify the notion of community.
