The parliament's backbenchers did, however, force Executive ministers to change the law so two questions on religion could be included. |
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The government has fiercely denied opposition claims that it has created an army in embryo, without parliament's consent. |
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One of the odder aspects of the parliament's back benches is how little flexibility there is within the committee system. |
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The public is disenchanted with the parliament's performance thus far and has the impression too many MSPs are not pulling their weight. |
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Last Tuesday the issue was debated by the Scottish parliament's European committee. |
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If there was one thing that the parliament's founding fathers in the Consultative Steering Group got wrong, it was the naming of parts. |
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He is now urging the parliament's powerful environment committee to mount an investigation. |
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Shouldn't one of the parliament's committees investigate this total waste of money? |
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The most striking message that comes through the polls is that most Scots expect the parliament's powers to increase in the next decade. |
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Paul, the parliament's clerk and chief executive, is convener of the SPBE board. |
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They entertained the crowds in parliament's lobby with drinking songs late into the night. |
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The parliament's visit to Aberdeen last week was not cheap, but it was money well spent. |
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I'm up to my armpits in constituency work, but 30,000 hits from the public on the parliament's website over chronic pain haunts me. |
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Two hours after the historic ceremony, the current parliament's batch of sitting MPs cease to be members of parliament. |
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The party later amalgamated with the Greens and Hale herself now represents the Greens in the parliament's Legislative Council. |
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German voters on Sunday cast their ballots to elect the members of the parliament's lower chamber, the Bundestag. |
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Doing so would smash parliament's claim to ratify or reject treaties. |
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What a scene it must have been for the immense army of journalists, lobbyists and poules de luxe who follow the Euro parliament's caravanserai from Brussels to Strasbourg. |
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The decision to delay the new parliament's first sitting will only add to cynicism in the electorate and will be no encouragement to take part in the election. |
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Speaking on the floor of parliament's lower house, he denied ever having held any account abroad. |
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Such is their distaste for tinsel distinctions that, throughout the devolved parliament's long, three-year history, they have only awarded themselves one medal. |
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Past governments might have ignored the ruckus, but the ruling coalition had suffered a nasty drubbing in last month's polls for parliament's lower house. |
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The Ukrainian parliament's human rights ombudswoman Valeria Lutkovskaya had earlier unexpectedly appealed on Yanukovych to pardon Lutsenko. |
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Once summoned, a parliament's continued existence was at the king's pleasure, since it was subject to dissolution by him at any time. |
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The king famously responded that he would not dismiss as much as a scullion from his kitchen at parliament's request. |
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A parliament's lower house is usually composed of at least 100 members, in countries with populations of over 3 million. |
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This terminated both state support and parliament's role in its governance, but also took into government ownership much church property. |
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In early modern England, the withholding of funds was one of parliament's few ways of controlling the monarch. |
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He also secured a legal ruling from Chief Justice Robert Tresilian that parliament's conduct had been unlawful and treasonable. |
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The Scottish Parliament constituencies are also components of that parliament's Highlands and Islands electoral region. |
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The UK parliament's first Labour Party MP, Keir Hardie was elected from the area and the Valleys remain a stronghold of Labour Party power. |
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It elects nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituency members and seven of the 56 additional members. |
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It describes a meeting between Richard and Henry that took place one day before the parliament's session. |
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A member of the German parliament's Transportation Committee is suggesting members gauge their skills in driving tests while stoned on marijuana or hashish. |
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During the eleven years of personal rule that followed, Charles performed legally dubious actions, such as raising taxes without parliament's approval. |
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The Scottish law officers, the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General, can be appointed from outside the parliament's membership, but are subject to its approval. |
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But publicly at least, Parliament's senior media handlers are at pains to emphasise that they will show no favour. |
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He said the court was only exercising its jurisdiction and functions and was not usurping the Parliament's functions. |
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Women have reason to be relieved that Parliament's attention was distracted. |
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This is a private bill, promoted by the New Zealand Guardian Trust Co. Ltd for Parliament's consideration. |
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In 1735 Parliament's challenge was met by an English clockmaker, John Harrison. |
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The message was relayed to me over a cup of tea in Parliament's members' lounge by FW's henchmen, both from not too verligte backgrounds. |
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There are frequent complaints about Parliament's social unrepresentativeness, particularly its male and upper and middle-class character. |
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Parliament's decision to do the undoable heralds an unprecedented crisis for the Government. |
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Fairly good discussion on the Scottish Parliament's proposed Gaelic bill on today's Lesley Riddoch show. |
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For all of these, an absolute majority has to vote in favour for the Parliament's voice to be heard. |
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William agreed to religious toleration and to Parliament's claims to authority. |
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Confined by illness and death-threats to Whitehall, Cromwell wrestles with Parliament's offer of kingship. |
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The Charter was witnessed by Angela Billingham as Northampton's MEP and Neil Kinnock as the European Parliament's Commissioner of Transport. |
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Following the Stamp Act upheavals, he tried to keep smugglers and other scofflaws from flouting Parliament's authority. |
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This is largely a self-regulating body and was set up as an alternative to Parliament's providing statutory regulations. |
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The Parliament's legislative powers also have grown significantly since the Treaty of Rome. |
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The Restoration of Charles II in 1660 took place on Parliament's terms. |
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Parliament's resolution said that seals and whales eat at least 5.5 million tons of fish and krill a year, double the tonnage caught by fishermen. |
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Emergency action has been taken by the European Parliament's Committee on Food to stop the UK importing products known to contain this carcinogenic colouring. |
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Alternatives are readily available and the previous cadmium quantum dot exemption expired with the Parliament's vote. |
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The dominance of Parliament's legislative programme by the majority party is such that 95 per cent of bills are initiated by the government. |
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The President riposted that Parliament's acts were illegal as they could pass into law only by Presidential signature. |
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He stood down as SNP leader in 2004 and became Convener of the Scottish Parliament's European and External Relations Committee. |
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Following the review, the motions were retitled Legislative Consent Motions and the procedures enshrined in the Parliament's Standing Orders. |
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Chapter 9B of the Scottish Parliament's Standing Orders specify the procedure for considering Sewel motions. |
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The act would be ratified by the Parliament's Education Act 1633, which would also provide a method of realising the objective. |
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The deal includes that Parliament's President will attend high level Commission meetings. |
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Even the Parliament's two seats, which have switched several times, are a result of various agreements or lack of agreements. |
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Parliament's strength was such that the Crown turned to corruption and political management to undermine its autonomy in the latter period. |
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Swinney announced his resignation on 22 June 2004 to become Convener of the Scottish Parliament's European and External Relations Committee. |
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Council is then not bound by the Parliament's position but only by the obligation to consult it. |
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During repairs, all chamber business was conducted in the Parliament's committee room two. |
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By the time the English Civil War broke out in November 1642, the Tower of London was already in Parliament's control. |
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Parliament's role in deciding litigation originated from the similar role of the Royal Court, where the King dispensed justice. |
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Since then, Parliament's power has steadily increased while the Crown's has steadily declined. |
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To his opponents in Parliament this seemed like a prelude to arbitrary rule, so James prorogued Parliament without gaining Parliament's consent. |
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In June 1647, a troop of cavalry under Cornet George Joyce seized the King from Parliament's imprisonment. |
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Before joining Parliament's forces Cromwell's only military experience was in the trained bands, the local county militia. |
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This act also forbade ship money without Parliament's consent, fines in destraint of knighthood and forced loans. |
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Without Parliament's support, Charles attacked Scotland again, breaking the truce at Berwick, and suffered a comprehensive defeat. |
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Next, they note the date for Parliament's calling and the reason for its calling. |
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The decline of Bracton's influence in the middle of the fourteenth century coincides with Parliament's first assertions of its powers. |
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The British Parliament's efforts to levy new taxes following the French and Indian War were deeply unpopular in the colonies. |
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Parliament's intention was to show some compassion for those who had been involved in a suicide pact but failed to die. |
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Parliament required that the jury not be directed to find intention, and Lord Steyn cannot have intended to contravene Parliament's wishes. |
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Following his father's example, Charles raised loans without Parliament's sanction and imprisoned without trial those who would not pay. |
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Parliament's power was derived from its control over the Kingdom's pursestrings. |
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This campaign was conducted in collaboration with French economist Michel Chevalier, and succeeded despite Parliament's endemic mistrust of the French. |
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Like the other institutions, the Parliament's seat was not yet fixed. |
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Early in the Long Parliament's proceedings the house overwhelmingly accused Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford of high treason and other crimes and misdemeanours. |
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The Parliament's records were published from the 1750s and provide a huge wealth of commentary and statistics on the reality of running Ireland at the time. |
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Two Progressive Conservatives asked Mr Winters during the Commons question period what is being done about Parliament's electric clocks and the library of Parliament. |
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This meant that he still received more tax, despite Parliament's veto. |
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Early in the Long Parliament's proceedings, the house also unanimously accused the Earl of Strafford of high treason, and other crimes and misdemeanors. |
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In addition, no tax or loan could be levied without Parliament's permission, and no private citizen could be forced into accepting soldiers into his home. |
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The Scottish Law Officers, the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General can be appointed from outside the Parliament's membership, but are subject to its approval. |
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Consequently, the Assembly is now empowered to make laws, known as Acts of the Assembly, on all matters in the subject areas, without needing the UK Parliament's agreement. |
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In June of the same year Blake captured the Isles of Scilly, the last outpost of the Royalist navy, for which he again received Parliament's thanks. |
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The translation of Parliament's words into action came when English Admiral Sir George Ayscue claimed Barbados as part of the Commonwealth and seized 27 Dutch ships. |
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They had been the Parliament's rapporteurs on the constitutional treaty. |
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This put into practice Westminster legislation for England and Wales from 1946 and Scotland from 1947, and the Northern Ireland Parliament's 1947 Public Health Services Act. |
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Parliament's reaction to the French Revolution was so negative, that even this request for an inquiry was rejected by a margin of almost 200 votes. |
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Mandatory Committees are committees which are set down under the Scottish Parliament's standing orders, which govern their remits and proceedings. |
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However, when Parliament threatened to vote down the Nice Treaty, the Belgian and Italian Parliaments said they would veto the treaty on the European Parliament's behalf. |
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Presented to the Scottish Parliament by the Queen upon Parliament's official opening in July 1999, the mace is displayed in a glass case, suspended from the lid. |
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