Many peers expect their elected successors to be much more assertive towards the Houseof Commons, straining old conventions that the Lords should bow before the primacy of the elected chamber.
很多贵族期待他们通过选举产生的继任者能在下议院更有自信,由此打破旧时上议院屈从于下议院的惯例。
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Each avoided the credit expansion, consumer frenzy, house-price bubbles and trade deficits indulged in by many of their peers.