So a majority of 90 is needed, largely from the cross-benches. ❋ Helen (2008)
Leader of the opposition Democratic Party, Tony Leon, and his elder brother, Peter, who sat on the cross-benches as a special delegate to the National Council of Provinces, exchanged a friendly wave before proceedings got underway. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Mr Mentz, MP for Vryheid, will now become the IFP's first voice in Parliament and share the cross-benches in the House of ❋ Unknown (1993)
Jack Weatherill sent me an advance welcome to sit with him on the non-party cross-benches in the Lords. ❋ Bothroyd, Betty (1988)
There they found a crowd of guests, and the men took their seats on benches down the length of the hall, but the women were seated on the cross-benches on the dais, and the bride was rather downcast. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Lords Cottenham and Campbell sat together, frequently in communication with each other, and occasionally with Lord Denman, who sat near them, at the cross-benches, busily engaged in referring to books and papers. ❋ Various (N/A)
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood in 1923, he now took his place on the nonparty cross-benches. ❋ Unknown (1937)
That night the world seemed hushed to listen, the peridom of Britain packing the Gallery with rainbow, and the peerdom those benches and cross-benches, red as massacre and the Scarlet Woman, where thronged ❋ Unknown (1906)
When he had tended the fire, he sat down upon the cross-benches before the shrine, and, gazing on the image of the Goddess Freya, he fell asleep and dreamed a very evil dream. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
But when Asmund saw Atli he knew him at once, though they had not met for nearly thirty years, and he greeted him lovingly, and put him in the high seat, and gave place to his men upon the cross-benches. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
While he was in the House itself he stood at the door or sat in the cross-benches, so as to keep a space between him and his leader. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
ERSKINE been in the Chair by the cross-benches some years now. ❋ Various (1876)
By the gentlemen's seats were ranged the usual classical volumes, all the works of Varro, which now exist only in fragments, and the poets sacred and profane; behind certain cross-benches was the literary food of a lighter kind, more suited to the weaker vessels without regard to sex. ❋ Charles Isaac Elton (1869)
Professor Peter Hennessy, the eminent political and constitutional historian, who is taking a place on the cross-benches. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But he would sit on the cross-benches until the Liberals agreed to match the WA royalties for regions scheme with federal funding for regional infrastructure. ❋ Unknown (2010)
O'Connor to Tony Crook of the Nationals, who has promised to sit on the cross-benches rather than join the Coalition party room. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"I will support the coalition to form a minority government, but I would like to make it clear there has been no commitment or agreement on our key policy (better funding for mining regions), therefore I will be on the cross-benches until that policy is met." ❋ Unknown (2010)
On that basis, you can see why Julia Gillard is happy to negotiate with the cross-benches and leave the Coalition to stew in its own ideological juices. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Prior to the election and redistribution Labor held 58 seats, while the LNP held 25 and six MPs sat on the cross-benches. ❋ Unknown (2009)
