backbench in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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The government survived a no-confidence vote by a single vote, and only by promising its backbench critics a leadership spill.
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He joined parliament's backbench and embraced the floor of the house with gusto, debating bills and asking questions touching on his constituents.
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The climate deniers in cabinet, the "fringe-dwellers" and troglodytes on the backbench, will almost certainly ensure a kind of do-nothing kind of climate policy.
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He remained on the backbench for his entire political career.
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Following the 1959 general election he returned to the backbenches.
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His vociferous traditional unionist approach to politics ensured him a prominent backbench position.
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Still, it is one thing for a governing party to unleash the dogs of war through attack ads or the designated hit persons in the cabinet and backbench.
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For the next four years, she served as a backbench government member.
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