Get Free Checker

interpellation

NOUN
  1. (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy
  2. the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

How To Use interpellation In A Sentence

  • Premier Liu Chao-shiuan said during a interpellation session in parliament that he would not rule out going to war with Japan, if Taipei and Tokyo fail to resolve the dispute over the Diaoyutai islands through diplomatic actions. Fishing Boat Accident Increases Tension over Disputed Islands
  • However, before exploring this problematic I want to establish the strange way in which the sailors 'taunt impinges on Equiano's interpellation of George into his masochistic reading of Foxe. The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire
  • ‘For more than a month now, the Prime Minister has not been replying to questions and interpellations by the Coalition for Bulgaria in connection with the crisis,’ he added.
  • The enthymeme, far from being a means of audience participation as some critics have suggested, is a mechanism for the interpellation of the audience into a kind of scripted rationality.
  • Hsia Li-Yan, Deputy Foreign Minister, said during the interpellation period yesterday, “The only reason is, of course, Mainland China.” Archive 2009-05-01
  • And how might we resist these interpellations, or other potentially painful interpellations?
  • She insists on seeing workers as agents, not victims: “Like the making of class, we cannot predict the outcome but can explain the trajectory of when and which ideological interpellation underlies what collective action” 122. Labor protest in China
  • Later in an interpellation session with Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lee Chun-yee (李俊毅), the premier elaborated on his remark, saying that war would be the last choice if all peaceful means were in vain. Archive 2008-06-01
  • The interpellation was the fifth faced by Matti Vanhanen's (centre) second government. Undefined
  • And now M. Raynal appears with a project for more effectually establishing the domination of the parliamentary majority by giving it the right to adjourn once a week for six successive weeks, all debates on any 'interpellation' to which the France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
View all