大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 front bench
释义：
front bench 议会的前座（为反对党领袖保留的座位）
例句：
That was part of the rationale for bringing craggy Ken Clarke back to the front bench.
这就是让粗犷的肯卡拉克回到议会前排的部分原因。
Two rows of seat in the house of Commons behind the front bench where ordinary member of parliament sit.
下院中前排座后面的两排座位，普通议员在此就座。
He pointed out the Tory front bench had all voted in favour of suspending the competition rules to allow the merger to go ahead.
他指出托利党前座都投票赞成暂停两行之间的竞争，而将两行合并。
Although Mr Turnbull's front bench rallied behind him, Mr Tuckey's comments highlight deep divisions within the coalition on the issue of the CPRS.
虽然特恩布尔的前座议员在背后支持他，塔基的评论还是凸显了联盟内部在该方案问题上的分歧。
Some MPs worked the expenses system too disreputably to keep their seats or, in some cases, their ministerial jobs or places on the Conservative front bench.
一些操纵开支系统的议员们因够声名狼藉，或者在一些事情上，因他们的部门指责和地位在保守派议会前座才保住他们的位置。
He and the other shadow cabinet members of the millionaires row of the Tory front bench are hopelessly out of touch with what the real world worries of citizens.
他和其他的百万富翁影子内阁成员在议会中占据保守党前席，并且无可救药地对国民关注的真实世界不闻不问。
As a result Rudd has ignored the talent on his front bench, sidelined many ministers from the decision-making process and failed to use powerful voices in policy debates.
结果陆克文忽视了自己前座议员们的才能，拒众多部长于决策过程之外，因而在种种政策性辩论中显得势单力薄。
But it was all slim pickings and even the Labour front bench seemed less than engaged.
Ms Champion insists she is unlikely to be on the shadow front bench anytime soon.
The first Chevrolet ever built, the 1911 Series C Classic Six, came with a front bench seat.
MPs since 1997, the Conservative Party does not have many famous names left on its front bench.
Ms Harman sat on the front bench just in front of Mr Dromey as he made his speech.
Shadow constitutional reform minister Wayne David said the majority of the opposition front bench supported votes at 16.
Susan Kramer steps down from the front bench team to lead the party's campaign against expansion of Heathrow Airport.
"If they were a football team, " she said of the new Conservative leader's front bench, "they'd be Accrington Stanley".
It prompted uproar in the Commons, and thunderous looks from Mr Osborne sitting on the front bench beside Mr Cameron.
Confounding those who thought that scandal had ended his political career, he returned to his party's front bench in 1975.
His decision follows that of Lord Strathclyde to quit as Lords leader after 14 years on the Tory front bench.
The Tories' two most effective front bench performers are the shadow chancellor, Michael Howard, and the shadow home secretary, Oliver Letwin.
She resigned from the front bench twice whilst in opposition accusing Labour spin-doctors ("dark forces") and the press of hounding her.
The libertarian wing of the Conservative Party would probably have voted against the proposals, cutting them adrift from the front bench.
And not just because one of its practitioners, A. Salmond, was sitting on the front bench, supporting his Finance Secretary John Swinney.
The Conservatives did not have enough household names on the front bench.
"The so-called 'big beast' has trampled all over Mr Cameron as the price of his return to the Conservative front bench, " he said.
He added that a return to the front bench for former shadow home secretary David Davis would "strengthen the Conservative team once more".
However, by his election in 1992 he had become a more focused constituency activist and moved seamlessly onto the front bench and eventually into government.
How Mr Miliband and his front bench team will handle that giant - tame it, provoke it or cosy up to it - remains to be seen.
