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Sentence Examples Strip away the constitutional flummery and you're left with a governing party stating what it's going to do in the upcoming parliament. Industry representatives sent a blistering letter of complaint to the real-life parliament president. Falconer, who is preparing to pilot his constitutional reform bill through parliament, has committed himself to deciding on a site by the summer. The cufflinks, lapel pins and brooches have been made in Orkney and are available only to MSPs and parliament visitors. On behalf of the people that I represent in this parliament, I say sorry for these past injustices. The placing of the Scottish parliament on Edinburgh's Royal Mile helped to root it in the nation's traditions. The plan failed to achieve a simple majority of the Ankara parliament in a knife-edge vote on Saturday. Complex moral issues are better left to the consciences of elected members of parliament. The rigorous action by federal interior ministers has led to cross-party protests within the national parliament. That means a convicted fire-raiser has the right to sit in parliament and pass laws binding on the rest of us. Within the corridors of parliament last week, many opposition MSPs had begun playing the affair down. But the moves for exemption are likely to prove highly contentious, coming as they do in the run-up to elections to the Scottish parliament. Why were these decisions and the overall content of this meeting never dealt with by parliament in an official plenary? Despite its being known as the Authorized Version, it was never publicly authorized by parliament, convocation, privy council, or king. The parliament will be fully involved in any decision on invocation of the safeguard clauses. Once there the police used force to prevent the march continuing to parliament. He compared the actions of parliament to a hawk flying at a covey of partridge. The Pope made history yesterday by becoming the first pontiff to cross the Tiber to address the Italian parliament. The corroboratory evidence of history tells us that lawyers have controlled the arguments in parliament for over 500 years. In Britain, because of the historical importance of parliament, we place a higher value on verbal fluency in our national leaders. Show More Sentences He could have fobbed it off on the next parliament as so many of his predecessors had done. Here was the role of parliament, building up and extending the active social and political life of the counties and towns. In the end, however, such crabbedly utilitarian arguments simply fail to understand the historic significance of the parliament. If a pure form of proportional representation had been used in 2001 we would have had a hung parliament. Should the Scottish parliament approve its creation, the new authority will be run like a private company. At the Scottish parliament on Thursday, there were few criticisms of the move. If just eight Government members were willing to cross the floor, the will of this parliament, the will of our democracy would prevail. Having published his own version of events, Marsden has continued to speak to the media about the need for a free vote in parliament. For three days he fulminated against Howard in parliament, at the National Press Club and in a nationally broadcast television address. In the end, power does not rest in parliament, still less in its cut-down version in Edinburgh. The MP has spearheaded calls to clamp down on violent content, tabling a number of early day motions in parliament to tighten regulation. The presidential ordinance gagging the press came two days before parliament was to meet. The parliament that emerged from this vote has been as yet unable to form a government and exercises no power. The power struggle between the president and the parliament is likely to prevail. The state of emergency is a prelude to the introduction of a raft of measures presented to parliament on Tuesday in an 80-clause Bill. In the mid-1850s governors and officials were replaced by premiers and ministers responsible to parliament. The official gazette notification that parliament was dissolved was finally released at midnight. In the morning an anti-war petition with a million signatures was presented to parliament. A delegate meeting was convened from which the petition would be presented to parliament. I am disturbed that under this new parliament we are seeing a private individual buying public opinion. Show More Sentences Whatever decision the parliament takes, the political crisis is set to deepen. The Kingdom of Italy was officially proclaimed on 17 March 1861, by a parliament sitting in Turin. All federal members of parliament will be given the right to speak and move motions. With continuing delays in constructing the new parliament building, Ministers will be forced to look for alternative accommodation. On the parliament building, a giant globe looked like another planet, half dark, half lit. In 1991, he prorogued parliament in order to block an impeachment motion against him. What is the reason for the apparent demise of the central institution of democracy, parliament? He believes that parliament should license prostitution in a more formal way. I do not think it is healthy in any democratic parliament to have that sort of a majority. The protesters congregated outside parliament before holding a sit-down protest in front of Downing Street. To date, 46 member states have ratified the protocol to the treaty establishing the parliament. Abbott's package was the government's third attempt in a year to push its measures through parliament. She's really focussed on looking outwards rather than inward and she's prepared to push innovative measures through the Scottish parliament. Now under Victorian law, there is a specific power granted by parliament to enable police to engage in criminal activity for drug investigations. So the parliament is stacked against any possibility of really effecting the kind of security, peace and economic policies that I believe in. For much of that time he enjoyed overwhelming support in both parliament and in the country, and acted almost dictatorially. At the outbreak of war with Austria in April 1859 Cavour extracted from parliament authority for the King to rule dictatorially for a year. Of course, this can best be achieved by electing Green politicians to parliament. If this was the case, we'd end up with the amusing sight of a parliament full of Lib Dems and Greens. Last year, a Victorian MP was ejected from parliament for breastfeeding her baby. Show More Sentences Less than four years into the life of the parliament we seem to be facing the prospect of legislative gridlock. However, political parties may be tempted to save money by electioneering from the Scottish parliament. This new borough was also endowed with land, the income from which was used to pay the salaries of two burgesses at parliament. As the first official guest ever to address the parliament, the Prime Minister is conventionally supposed to deliver a non-political speech. But he is not impressed by the track record of the Scottish parliament on business. A bill to give women the vote in local elections was introduced into the French parliament in 1906, but was promptly defeated. He was not resigning and would instead table a vote of confidence in parliament on Thursday. He predicts that the demonstrations will reach their peak in two months and force the government to face a vote of no confidence in parliament. Talks resumed today after parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the government. The Labour Party is expected to call for a vote of no confidence in parliament this coming week, although it is unlikely to win. He fought to push it through parliament and past a sceptical cabinet committee. In the meantime parliament had not been able to meet and the full cabinet and ministry had not been appointed. The reform of the executive branch of government should aim at making the cabinet fully responsible to the parliament. The general election produced a stalemate, with opposition and pro-government parties each ending up with 25 seats in the 50-seat parliament. It had always been hoped that the Scottish parliament would divert the attention of fractious Caledonians away from England-bashing. The standing orders of the German parliament expressly prescribe that each parliamentary faction is entitled to fill a post of deputy president. Parent groups and expert nutritionists are lobbying for the Scottish parliament to introduce the legislation immediately. A majority of parties in parliament has demanded the hallucinogenic mushrooms be outlawed. Five people were arrested today after staging an illegal demonstration outside parliament to object to new laws restricting protests in the area. What does this say about his attitude towards the parliament he campaigned to establish? Show More Sentences Riot police and soldiers fired canisters of tear gas at the protesters as they entered the parliament compound. His first chance comes on Tuesday when he hansels the new parliament with a speech outlining the Executive's legislative plans. They remain in the interim parliament and their fighters are in the cantonments. Significantly, the two parties came together in the parliament to steamroller through the legislation creating the three new states. Consequently they have lodged a petition with the parliament claiming its officiants are being discriminated against on religious grounds. What chance, then, of the judges now forbidding parliament to contravene our home-grown constitutional principle of the rule of law? By 1695, the English parliament had seized to itself an authority to influence financial policy to an extent unimaginable under the Stuarts. In a hawkish, emotional speech to the Romanian parliament, Tony Blair said Milosevic was the real target of the war. Their parliament, government and universities were closed and the Catalan language banned. This is the catalyst for a chain of events which threatens to destabilise the parliament. In this climate of opinion, the notion that the Scottish parliament is going to sue for greater powers seems hopelessly naiive. All other parties had worn themselves down in parliament, either in opposition or in government. Neil is at pains to stress he is not the oppositionist wrecker of the devolved parliament. I expect them to become the generators of change in a way similar to that in which oppositionist parliament forces were in Ukraine. But the underlying dissatisfaction of society is palpable there, and oppositionist forces have significant roles in parliament. Those French orators engaged in the real matters of public concern address the king and the great nobles either from the pulpit or in parliament. Instead, the Nov.15 agreement provides for parliament members to be selected in 18 regional caucuses. In the case of monetary policy the executive ceded power to the Bank, in matters of military policy it should cede power to parliament. The site of Australia's Federal parliament house was much heralded as a design befitting a nation that had come of age. The ostensible reason is that he does not wish to relinquish his seat in the European parliament. Show More Sentences It is hard to dismiss the image of him at the opening of the parliament last May taking the oath with his fist clenched, a study in defiance. He tells of his summer long pursuit to convince a parliament of owls to attach themselves to his shoulder. His encounters with Donald in the parliament debating chamber had noticeably failed to land the punches expected of him. Both chambers of parliament must still confirm the new government, but this is virtually assured by the ruling coalition's clear majority. From these ramps, visitors may look either at breathtaking views of the city outside or at the deputies chamber of parliament directly below. In early May, some 15,000 people protested outside parliament following a two-week hikoi by Maori. Cyril confesses to never taking to parliament as an institution and described it as a charade and a farce. We believe that before any British troops are involved in military action there should be a substantive motion and a vote in parliament. It's now been put back in the charter, and that legislation is going through parliament at the moment. The parliament is a Greek temple, the city hall, a Flemish Gothic guildhall. He represents the parliament at Commission meetings and summits with government heads. Almost his first act as Prime Minister was to go to parliament and to address the nation with almost brutal honesty. Tereshkova later became a member of the Supreme Soviet, the former Soviet Union's national parliament. So the entire brewing industry is under pressure and lobbying parliament, and generally being huffy. The inaction of our parliament condemns another generation to ill health and addiction. The country elects a new parliament in February, lawmakers more closely aligned than ever before with President Mohammad Khatami. Parliament may pass a human rights act, but a future parliament could repeal or emasculate it. I was delighted when we won the referendum and becoming a member of the parliament was the icing on the cake. He can dissolve the parliament, and nominate people to all the key state functions. Members of a corrupt parliament are ready to make deals with whomsoever has anything to offer. Show More Sentences In November 1987, a new parliament was elected and a new cabinet appointed. Rather than lose the vote, she dissolved parliament on October 10 and called an early election. Both of these were bills that were lost when parliament dissolved for the election. We interrupt this video program to bring you a parliament of owls who think a stuffed animal is their mom. In one bush a large parliament of owls softly hooted a welcome which cannot fail to enchant. The city stares in, beaming golden lights like a parliament of owls watching from the darkness. It has taken weeks of narrowing his walking-vision to the activities of their local parliament of rooks. Millions of shoppers are now completely owled out, confronted with a parliament of owls on every shelf in every shop. To my right was a stand of ash trees where the cawing parliament of rooks eventually settled. A parliament of rooks suddenly broke free of the naked trees, and rose in the air. When I first came in to parliament, most parliamentarians were elderly men. Many turned to advocating parliamentary reform when they got so little from parliament. He had been considering his future for some months following a bruising three years in a hung parliament. He blamed a hung parliament for his inability to secure a Commons majority on his proposals. Italy is facing political paralysis as near-complete election results raise the possibility of no clear winner and a hung parliament. Both Labor and the Liberals have ruled out making deals with the Greens in the event of a hung parliament. The Constitution was amended to eliminate the king's power to block bills passed by parliament. Under Scottish parliament rules, clerks do not help draft bills connected with areas which the Executive is already legislating or consulting on. Without the clip-clop of cavalry or neigh of a prince of Windsor, the state opening of the Scottish parliament went off this week. They said peace talks with the rebels can best be held by a government appointed by the parliament, not by the king. Show More Sentences Both the parliament and the government have openly demanded a secret, closed-door trial to ban a political party. However, the priority was to build the new debating chambers, and provide office and library accommodation for members of parliament and peers. There is a kind of clubbiness in the parliament, a sort of collective mindset, a social conservatism. There were claims in parliament that she wasn't worth a penny of the money the civil list paid her. There has never been a majority in the parliament, and so the governments are coalitions. They will face a tough task forming a governing coalition in a parliament that includes six other parties. He testified that all other parties represented in the German parliament did not regard their right to co-determination as having been violated. All the parties of the Scottish parliament should be fighting against the rantings of the ill-informed and ignorant. He warned that fresh factional fighting would erupt unless the meeting addressed key issues, such as the establishment of a new parliament. The state president, parliament and the judiciary are also regarded as fair game. The following year parliament protested that he was exceeding his powers and 70 MPs voted to impeach him. The CIS had no common parliament, president, or citizenship, only a vague pledge to work on collective security. The party's boasts during the last parliament that it had replaced the Conservatives as the main opposition did not come to pass. His petition to the Scottish parliament accuses government bodies meant to regulate the fish farming industry of being biased in its favour. The climax of these commotions came during the fourth week of September, when the parliament returned in triumph from its exile. The legislation containing a ban will be on public health grounds, a policy area within the competence of the Scottish parliament. If the Scottish parliament doesn't help Scotland emerge from its infantilism, it will not have been worth the effort. It has dominated British politics, at least since the 1880s. Liberal and Labour administrations have merely been interludes in the long, long Conservative parliament. To be profiteering by capitalizing on visits with a young woman in prison seems inappropriate for a member of parliament. Convinced that nothing would come of the political game of ins and outs, he turned away from parliament and the political parties in his search for sources of renewal. Show More Sentences Our parliament is probably no more boring than any other, although we could do with a bit more passion, vituperation and maybe even some mace swinging. Public demos are likely to continue after parliament ruled the initial poll invalid and passed a symbolic, non-binding vote of no-confidence in the electoral commission. The Scottish parliament standing orders help cage its backbenchers. There were some things requisite in the manner of the levy for the better strengthening of the same, which percase could not be done without parliament. We briefly consider helping out by setting up a huge plasma screen outside parliament showing back-to-back episodes of Trisha, but budgetary constraints intervene. The two parties will have a total of 306 deputies in the new parliament. The new Irish state was governed, like its northern counterpart, by a bicameral parliament whose procedures were loosely modelled on those of Westminster. How will the general cohabit with a parliament largely hostile to him? A parliament of rooks skulks around the far side, eyeing us suspiciously. The European parliament has bungled its latest attempt to outlaw spam. In 1923 parliament began to revise the code of military discipline. Thereafter the London Government has to choose between calling fresh elections or putting the North's devolved government and parliament into cold storage for a period. With unparalleled haste and without any great discussion, numerous changes to German law were rushed through both chambers of the German parliament just before Christmas. We supported lifetime health cover when it went through the parliament. In the Spanish procedure a ratification of such an agreement has to be approved by both chambers of parliament before it is put to the signature of the King. The Foreign Secretary was forced to drop sections of an address to parliament that warned of the dangers of being left out of the single currency. The centre piece of the campaign, to be launched today is a vox pop of people in the north west being interviewed about their views of the plans to set up a mini parliament. Even the proprietors and editors who did not want devolution to succeed can no longer claim the parliament is doing nothing or making no difference. The late Donald Dewar recognised this himself and even proposed that the House of Lords should be roped in as a revising chamber for the Scottish parliament. But in legal terms it will remain controversial that a chancellor put a confidence vote to parliament without being under intense political pressure to do so. Show More Sentences The colonists had no say in decisions made in the English parliament. If his proposed constitutional changes come into force, he will be able to change the prime minister and dissolve the cabinet and parliament unilaterally. Any parliament is always going to be a seething cauldron of ambition. In the UK this is achieved, for example, by the right to vote in general elections to parliament, which must take place at least once in every five years. It was the culmination of Salmond's transformation of the SNP from an introverted nationalist club into the principal opposition in the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. Because the Scottish parliament has no second chamber, the committees must act as an even-handed forum to ensure that legislation is fair and foolproof. With Scottish elections due next year and the devolved parliament already under fire for costs overrunning on its new building, that would be a severe blow to devolution. The government was hoping to prorogue parliament on 20 November. We laugh at the huge overspends on the Scottish parliament and on non-working national computer projects but these blunders hit our local pockets directly. There's a private member's bill on ageism going through parliament today. But the so-called parliament of the self-declared Luhansk republic decided to go one better. That sum is how much it would cost to create an identical copy of the parliament from scratch should the controversial original be obliterated in a disaster. On Friday, the restive Ukrainian parliament, now dominated by her political allies, voted to free her. On Aug.29, 1991, the Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the institution. Hours after Jack the Knife had carved them up, most of the Disappeared were gathered in the parliament cafeteria, stunned and emitting occasional gales of manic laughter. He has called rallies of Labour Party members, canvassing a boycott of parliament and suggesting continued international sanctions against the government. The second chamber needs both independence and a level of strength to prevent any one government steamrollering ill-conceived legislation through parliament. Among the better Christmas presents would be a more vigorous parliament, sure of itself and its abilities and working all the time for a better Scotland. The dispute took its toll on the state opening of parliament with the number of troops on parade halved yesterday to 520 as soldiers were deployed on fire duties. It was recently announced in parliament that New Era would become a fully commercialised, profit-making parastatal company this year, publishing daily. Show More Sentences At such times he acted with all the calculation of a Stuart king in carefully arranging the time and location of a parliament to best suit his personal agenda. Established by an act of parliament in 1997, the parastatal college provides an alternative secondary education for those unable to take part in the formal school system. The bill was rejected by Parliament twice, yet he persisted with it and passed it in an amended form after a deal was stitched up with an independent member of parliament. Law Minister Moudud Ahmed piloted through parliament the bill for faster trials for cases of serious crimes involving murder, rape, illegal arms and explosives, and narcotics. The current settlement devolves substantial power and funding to the Scottish parliament and compares well with most other sub-national jurisdictions of the world. As the lower houses of parliament have become little more than electoral colleges for the appointment of the executive, new methods to control the executive have been sought. She was initially friendly, but I felt a sudden froideur when I explained that I was writing about the difficulty of remaking your life outside parliament. So is Sam caught bang to rights, telling porkies to the parliament? Evidence of the malaise now afflicting the established institutions in our society is all around, from parliament and the police to the monarchy and the churches. He stressed on masses to vote-in a single party, as nobody would benefit from a hung parliament, except the establishment itself. A hung parliament is a worst-case scenario for investors with one financial analyst tipping a 2-5 per cent fall in the Aussie dollar as a result. Bersani warned that the huge anti-austerity protest vote that left the Italian parliament at an impasse should be heeded beyond Italy's borders. Protesters were angry because they saw it as an army bid to take away powers of appointment from the parliament. The figures suggest the UK is still heading towards another hung parliament, with no party winning the 326 seats needed to form a majority in the House of Commons. In 2003, parliament passed the Water Act which places the decision on whether or not to fluoridise in the hands of strategic health authorities subject to public consultation. Protestors called for his release and prevention of the authorities' intention to force-feed him, amid a recent law legislated by Israel's parliament. The parliament speakers signed an agreement regarding approval of Astana Declaration and Turkish Speaking Countries Parliaments Interlibrary Cooperation Protocol. He pointed out the parliament is already making laws on school standards, feudal law, public finance and accountability and on standards in public life. Examples from Classical Literature Of the convocation which was assembled with the new parliament, the lower house chose Dr. Atterbury their prolocutor. In 1809 he became of age, and entered parliament for a rotten borough openly bought for him by his father. Riccio was killed, the parliament was dissolved, the banished lords recalled, and the queen a prisoner. Hence an expedient was devised of issuing writs for a new parliament, returnable in six days. The King has the veto power and the power to prorogue parliament. Then why do we need such meetings at which they pretend to put out the fire in the country when it is enkindled inside the parliament. On the 9th of May, the king went down to prorogue parliament. Now, of two hundred and fifty-one members who composed the parliament, there were one hundred and ninety-one who were in the way and might have upset his political wagon. The Independent High Electoral Commission threatened of not conducting the elections on its time in the parliament fail to endorse the elections law on Thursday's session. The leaders of the various faith communities are happywith the Church of England as the established church, a representative for people of faith in parliament. In Bangladesh's 1972 Constitution, Article 96 allowed parliament to impeach Supreme Court judges for proven offenses or incapability by the vote of a two-thirds majority. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of parliament? Words that rhyme with parliament What is the plural of parliament? What is the adverb for parliament? What is the adjective for parliament? What is the noun for parliament? Translations for parliament Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words parleys parleying parleyed parley parler parlements Parliament parliamentarian Parliamentarian parliamentarians Parliamentarians parliamentarism 10-letter Words Starting With p pa par parl parli parlia parliam parliame parliamen