How To Use Parliament In A Sentence

That's the normal time-filler for parliamentarians at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times
He can dissolve the parliament, and nominate people to all the key state functions.
Saint – Germain, the king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the Parliament. Les Miserables
However, the measure intended to foster democracy will result in all three party leaders imposing a three-line whip on their respective MPs – a move hardly likely to ease the public's mistrust of Parliament. European Union: The referendum is an absurd sideshow | Observer editorial
Very interesting that our Member of Parliament seems to think spending every waking hour in horning is more important than being in Parliament. Campaigning in Horning

The parliament will elect a president and two vice presidents, who will form a presidential council.
There is no doubt that the voters wanted to shake up the status quo and they have done this by creating what is almost a hung parliament.
It is not clear what will happen if opposition parties decide to boycott the Parliament session again today.
We need to support those Members of Parliament opposed to these new foundation hospitals.
Whilst not the first so to do but well before the bandwagon hove into view, I proposed that MPs expenses must be place in full, unexpurgated, unredacted beauty online as are those of MSPs by the Scottish Parliament. Where The Huntsman leads, the hounds follow
Parliament and public greeted this imperial retreat with a fanfare of acclamation.
‘I have committed no violations,’ he said in the lobby of Parliament last Friday.
His plan is to make us all stakeholders in the new European order by giving the national parliaments of Europe more of a say in what goes on in Brussels and Strasbourg.
There is no compelling reason why a Bill should lapse at the end of a parliamentary session.
The climax of these commotions came during the fourth week of September, when the parliament returned in triumph from its exile.
The fourth element of the constitution is one that I have described as a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy.
The Convention contained a majority of former parliamentarians but old cavaliers in the 1661 Parliament tried to modify what had been done.
They did not dare to challenge the sacred cow of parliamentary democracy.
The Executive undertakes to produce a coherent programme of government which the parliament is duty bound to scrutinise, debate and give assent to.
I'll post a link to the full parliamentary report when I track it down.
The Indian Prime Minister, V P Singh, lost a vote of confidence in the Indian parliament.
The parliament building sits in a large square.
The amendments allow the next parliament to make changes after the document is approved.
They are expecting the new legislation to have quite a rough passage through parliament.
That's right, vast swabs of the offending speech are reproduced under the cover of the Parliamentary privilege that had been so abused.
Last month, Najib said the government would establish a bi- partisan parliamentary committee to review changes to electoral rules, and that authorities would also consider amending laws governing censorship of print media. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
The issue of land reform was one that dominated Hungary's parliamentary elections.
This means that should you get say 20% of the vote at the election, you won't get 20% of the seats in Parliament, only those seats where you polled the most votes.
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.
You may talk vaguely about driving a coach – and – six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter – bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy. A Christmas Carol
He testified that all other parties represented in the German parliament did not regard their right to co-determination as having been violated.
He did so by rubbishing the only viable goal of any Liberal Democrat election campaign - a hung parliament.
Jamaica, a member of the British Commonwealth, has a bicameral parliamentary legislative system.
It did not emerge, fully formed, from the Scottish parliament under pressure from bigots.
The first Order under this paragraph shall not be made unless a draft of the Order has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
He is supposed to be debating to you and to fellow members of Parliament, and he should not involve strangers.
The opposition was in full cry in Parliament last night over the proposed changes to the education bill.
For Scottish criminal cases the court can be used only when cases relate to "devolution matters", a term covering the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament in dealing with human rights issues. WalesOnline - Home
I am disturbed that under this new parliament we are seeing a private individual buying public opinion.
Yet it is he, and not their Minister, who has to defend closure orders in Parliament.
I then wandered down Whitehall, passed the great Offices of State, to view the Mother of Parliaments and ponder the fact that 70 years on Britain has a Government led by a Prime Minister never elected to that Office, who has refused to consult the People for fear they oppose him and happily transfered that once so precious prized sovereignty to a new European Superpower. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
When, a few years later, Lord Elgin assented to the Rebellion Losses Bill, he established in Canada the practice and procedure of British parliamentary government. Education and the Empire
For Scottish criminal cases, the court can be used only when the case relates to "devolution matters", a term covering the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament in dealing with human rights issues. Evening Standard - Home
The by-election is unlikely to take place until mid-October at the earliest because the writ for the poll cannot be moved until Parliament is in session.
We say that power must be vested solely in the right of Parliament and the Government.
Ordinary Māori, many of whom were victimized by the police raids, descended upon Parliament today in a hikoi mass march, and beg to differ. Archive 2007-11-01
However, no sooner had the parliament spoken than there were attempts to unsay its words.
The term was reintroduced in Sweden in the early 1800s when the parliament of Sweden appointed its first ombudsman to give people a place, separate from the king, where their complaints about the country could be heard. Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us
The new parliament's principal task would be to draft a constitution for approval by the electorate in a referendum.
It is the function of the courts to administer the laws which Parliament has enacted.
In a sense, the prime minister's Monday statement in the Commons on the IGC was a "closure", allowing a natural pause in media coverage on the EU treaty, until the Parliamentary battle starts for real in the New Year. Archive 2007-10-01
It is certainly not a convincing retort to point out that: the argument is inconsistent with the existence of a Board having powers as specified under Section 11 of the Broadcasting Act. However, in assenting to the Act, Parliament either did not know what it was doing; or was making an idle gesture, not expecting the Board to promulgate any regulations respecting standards of programs, the character of advertising, the amount of time that may be devoted to advertising, and other matters specifically referred to, in the Act; or as I believe to be much more likely, Parliament consciously denied the argument that broadcasting can be left to the normal criteria and judgments of the market place. A High Standard
And whether you visit Nadine Dorries MP's blog of wanton barminess here or otherwise here where "here" and "here" are at one and the some place you will find that her parliamentary blogcullis is gone. The Dorries Sensation: Gazillion Hits, Official
The group is actively supported by several Members of Parliament.
Could it be that the Parliament has overreached itself again?
The Cabinet must enjoy the confidence of Parliament.
Last week Cabinet instructed Crown Law to prepare an amendment reversing the decision in time for the current session of Parliament.
In return for granting subsidies, Parliament demanded ever new powers from the monarchy.
The Pre-Parliament was an obvious failure and Lenin continued to bombard his lieutenants with demands for a forcible seizure of power.
The effect then is that the discretion conferred by Parliament is exercised, at least in part, by the wrong authority, and the resulting decision is ultra vires and void.
I do not think it is healthy in any democratic parliament to have that sort of a majority.
‘We will govern from here,’ he said of the chancellery near the Reichstag parliament building.
It consisted of six points: universal male suffrage, vote by ballot, equal representation, abolition of the property qualification to sit in Parliament and payment of Members of Parliament.
… Compounding the headaches for warm-mongers is a probe being launched by the British Parliament into the Climate Research Unit e-mail scandal. Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics.
Parliament will soon be asked to approve measures to reform education, health, the criminal justice system and welfare provision.
Hence, for instance, the new act of parliament that protects people from victimisation if they split on their bosses.
We will be standing in all 59 parliamentary seats across Scotland.
I have, since it was first threatened with closure, been a staunch campaigner both locally and in Parliament to save the maternity unit.
He said the presence of the gallery across the road from the new parliament could spur it to new heights of art appreciation.
Canada it was voted by the English Parliament to reannex the territory northwest of the Ohio to Canada and to permit the settlers to share in the rights and privileges of the Canadian province. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution
In 1955, one of the richest and most powerful men in the new West Germany and a fresh face in its Bonn parliament, he went back to Rome. THE THORN BIRDS
Pro-hunters fear that if peers refuse to back the Commons this time the Government will use the Parliament Acts to steamroller a ban into law.
Few women are in positions of real responsibility in Japanese commerce and only around five per cent of women are elected representatives in Japan's Parliament.
One of the primary tasks of the Commissioners is to recover those taxes which Parliament has decreed shall be paid.
This, apparently, was the very room from which Monet painted his celebrated views of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament, hung in (acceptable) reproduction around the walls of the pretty, panelled sitting room. The Smartest Hotel in the World
puh" with her mouth, and went out of the house, and never come in again till the King went to Sir Daniel Harvy's to pray her; and so she is come to-day, when one would think his mind should be full of some other cares, having but this morning broken up such a Parliament, with so much discontent, and so many wants upon him, and but yesterday heard such Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
But there can seldom have been more fulsome affair than the $275 a head extravaganza last week to celebrate John Howard's 30 years in parliament.
Parliament has approved a bill, proposed by Mr. Chen, that permits referendums on critical issues.
Such criticisms initially got a hostile reception from parliamentary and government officials, but attitudes have slowly changed.
One of them was Parliament House, a timbered building in which Charles I was believed to have held his Parliament Committee when he was in York.
Give them a chance to make an exhibition of themselves and these two never miss the opportunity, as they did while attempting to upstage the president's address to Parliament.
Parliament has passed an Act forbidding the killing of rare animals.
In Britain the upper chamber or parliament is the House of Lords, the lower the House of Commons.
He has tried to discredit the legality of parliament's inquiry, largely by concentrating on minor technical issues.
The raising of taxes without the assent of Parliament was declared illegal.
Two hours after the historic ceremony, the current parliament's batch of sitting MPs cease to be members of parliament.
Paul, the parliament's clerk and chief executive, is convener of the SPBE board.
Several have been carried out under the government's recently enacted internment legislation, which was rushed through parliament with minimum debate.
The Minister accused of misleading parliament was unavailable for comment last night.
Parliament voted on September 10 to create an interdepartmental commission of inquiry to try to track down investments made in Bulgarian overseas companies.
“The fact that a Dutch parliamentarian is refused entry to another EU country is highly regrettable,” Mr Verhagen said. Anti-Islamist politician Geert Wilders refused entry to Britain
Under the 1997 Constitution, Iloilo, as President, can dissolve the elected parliament and call new elections.
On behalf of the people that I represent in this parliament, I say sorry for these past injustices.
Objections in parliament In parliament, the leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Sushma Swaraj, raised objections to the Bill because the prime minister is excluded from its ambit. India Considers Anti-Corruption Bill Amid Calls for Tougher Law
Fellow MEPs hurled abuse at Mr Berlusconi and thumped their desks in the European Parliament Chamber in dismay.
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.
But he's pushing ahead: On Wednesday, Mr. Anwar vowed to run for parliament "imminently" in a by-election, with the aim of toppling the government by September. It's Déjà Vu for Malaysia's Opposition Leader
In the European parliament, however, 10 of the swabs were smeared with between 20 micrograms and 30 micrograms.
The legislation containing a ban will be on public health grounds, a policy area within the competence of the Scottish parliament.
He never prospered financially, and was unable to avail himself of the chance of a safe parliamentary seat as he lacked the money from captured enemy prizes to ‘grease the political machine’.
There are also leaders outside of the parliament who escape prosecution because they have been granted immunity by their own governments.
In the 1830s this provoked significant tension between antislavery parliamentarians and activists in the country.
Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Greek riot police clashed with hundreds of people protesting austerity measures who tried to break a cordon outside Parliament. Anger in Athens
After all, this is Parliament, a debating chamber, and a place where serious business is conducted.
Spain presently holds the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers and there has been a meeting in Madrid between members of the EU Parliament and members of the US Congress (one of those summer junkets for legislators) and on the margins of that meeting the Spanish Foreign Minister said: - The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Israeli Incompetence
Doing so would smash parliament's claim to ratify or reject treaties.
The president spoke with passion for an hour, in marked contrast to his subdued address to the parliament yesterday.
Yet litigants appeared reluctant to do without their services and utilize those of ‘freebie’ stipendiaries provided by Parliamentary legislation in 1792.
Parliament has voted ￡20 million extra funding for road improvements.
We had a statutory duty to report to Parliament.
The emergency powers were subsequently ratified in parliament by a substantial majority.
Alongside the BiH state elections, there were also elections to the parliaments at entity level and in the Croat-Muslim Federation's cantons.
Indeed, disaffection and rebellion in Ireland convinced ministers of the necessity of parliamentary union.
Parliamentary elections are scheduled for March 3 -- more than a year before the Socialists' term officially ends.
Since Edward Heath took us into what we were led to believe was the European free trade area, various governments have surrendered our Westminster Parliament's monopoly of making and unmaking laws in this country.
So the argument over free trade versus protectionism was debated in parliament by people directly representing different wings of the ruling class.
He testified that all other parties represented in the German parliament did not regard their right to co-determination as having been violated.
It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultravires rule in company law altogether.
Resolving the issue has been left for September, when Parliament is to reconvene after the summer recess.
That ratification depends on Parliament only dissenting in legally ambiguous ways?
The parliamentary election last May was recognized as generally fair by international observers.
Along the route ending in Parliament Square, five giant video screens were erected relaying selected images from the carefully stage-managed affair.
The vote came after majority Nationalist Party officials said today the party would use parliamentary procedures to block implementation of the bills.
This system ensured reasonably fair representation for each party, whilst preventing a large number of parties being elected to parliament.
The reaction in the Scottish Parliament this week said a lot about our MSPs and their cross-grained views.
Florence write and establish their final condemnation of noblesse living by rapine, those 'Ordinamenti della Giustizia,' which practically excluded all idle persons from government, and determined that the priors, or leaders of the State, should be priors, or leaders of its arts and productive labour; that its head 'podesta' or 'power' should be the standard-bearer of justice; and its council or parliament composed of charitable men, or good men: "boni viri," in the sense from which the French formed their noun 'bonte.' Val d'Arno
So Parliament offers no forum for considered debate and no brake on the unbridled ambition of an unscrupulous Prime Minister.
After all, Alex Salmond is both a MSP and an MP and so there is no reason why Lamont should he win the Westminster seat, it's a fair assumption that the seat will be Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirkshire due to the fact he's faught it twice, then he will be covering virtually the same constituency for both Parliaments, much like Alex Salmond, no? The Fickle Mind of a Tory
The legislation won't be passed during the life of the present parliament.
The ostensible reason is that he does not wish to relinquish his seat in the European parliament.
The Queen rode in state to the opening of Parliament.
That is why Hayward and his cadres imposed mandatory reselection on parliamentary candidates and attempted (only just failing) to remove from the parliamentary leadership any say in compiling the election manifesto. How my party was betrayed by KGB boot-lickers
Governments, enjoying the full powers of a sovereign Parliament, usually have a different vantage point from the opposition parties.
Opponents in Parliament, which has to vote on the measure, vowed to fight it tooth and nail.
The activities at parish, classical, and provincial level would be co-ordinated by a national synod and by Parliament.
A fuller acceptance of the concept of open government would stimulate discussion of public policy inside and outside Parliament.
This is not to say that there are not PNM MPs who sometimes abuse parliamentary privilege.
A consumer culture's distortion of publicity in the judicial realm matches the plebiscitary distortion of parliamentary publicity.
A fragile center-right parliamentary majority emerged, composed of free-market liberals, conservative nationalists, and parties with ties to oligarchic clans and big business.
The party was no longer able to command a majority in Parliament.
Parliament remains the central institution of the constitution of the United Kingdom.
The Home Office confirmed that provisions to toughen the gun laws could be added to the Criminal Justice and Sentencing Bill currently before Parliament.
A praise singer blessed the constitution as the first to prepare the country for development before a Guguletu choir sang renditions of "Shosholoza" and other freedom songs until the members of the CA appeared on the steps of Parliament. ANC Daily News Briefing
Within its government, power is shared between a directly elected president, a prime minister, and a bicameral legislature (Parliament).
In Britain the upper chamber or parliament is the House of Lords, the lower the House of Commons.
The parliament has voted by an overwhelming majority to suspend its declaration of independence.
The officials were conducting a special session of Parliament to discuss crime fighting measures at the time of the protest.
The sight lines leading to the colonnade and entablature of the Parliament are left unobstructed.
The regional parliament threw down a new challenge to the central authorities by passing a law allowing private ownership of businesses.
Parliament must have been aware of these methods and cannot have had in mind a process where abortifacient agents were administered by nurses.
No queues of mourners lined the halls to say a final farewell to the man hailed as the workers' hero as his body lay in state at the House of Parliament yesterday.
The government forced the bill through Parliament.
In October Parliament approved a revision of the budget.
A private member is any MP other than the Speaker, a minister or a parliamentary secretary.
Carers from all over the UK lobbied Parliament last week to demand a better financial deal.
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
He was back in parliament but there was no chance of moving into 11 Downing Street during this administration.
A proposal to introduce a levy on plastic bags will be introduced into Federal Parliament this week.
11, Liberal Party 10 note: for certain purposes, the parliament divides itself into two chambers and elects one-fourth of its membership in the Lagting and three-forths of its membership in the Odelsting The 2007 CIA World Factbook
Therefore it would be unseemly for Parliament to vote money for a member of the royal family.
Mr Yeltsin repeated his threat that if parliament did not approve his version, he would take it to a referendum.
The crisis of 1629-60 originated in Charles I's belief that by the royal prerogative he could govern without the advice and consent of Parliament.
Whatever decision the parliament takes, the political crisis is set to deepen.
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.
They wanted a weak president and a strong one-chamber parliament able to push through radical reforms.
The catering business itself is regulated by various Acts of Parliament which impose duties and standards of conduct that must be observed.
It is the role of this parliament and the House of Representatives to supervise the expenditure of funds.
President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro rejected his resignation and told him to go to parliament to seek another mandate.
He was obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate.
They have been spoonfed lies and distortions about the British Empire, so that they bleat about how ashamed they are of it, forgetting that for all its faults it gave parliamentary democracy to the world (or tried to), and abolished excesses such as suttee and thuggee. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
AMRITSAR: Om Parkash Soni Congress candidate for the prestigious Amritsar parliament Seat Friday claimed that Congress party would win the Amritsar seat on the basis of development works which were done in last fiver years. PunjabNewsline News
Even the old parliamentarians hailed the return of Charles, notwithstanding it was admitted that the protectorate was a vigorous administration; that law and order were enforced; that religious liberty was proclaimed; that the rights of conscience were respected; that literature and science were encouraged; that the morals of the people were purified; that the ordinances of religion were observed; that vice and folly were discouraged; that justice was ably administered; that peace and plenty were enjoyed; that prosperity attended the English arms abroad; and that the nation was as much respected abroad as it was prosperous at home. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
Parliament/The court rose at 6 pm.
In a statement, they said, They react in fury and menace to our intention to show the film and have boasted that their threats of aggressive demonstrations prevented its previous showing in the Mother of Parliaments. Archive 2009-02-01
Without the clip-clop of cavalry or neigh of a prince of Windsor, the state opening of the Scottish parliament went off this week.
Irked by Viswa's criticisms of the way some ethnic groups are treated in Singapore, LKY interrupted a medical treatment to angrily refute the "highfalutin" speech in a rare appearance on the parliament floor. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
The so-called indigenization and empowerment act was passed in 2008, when parliament was still dominated by Mugabe's lawmakers. StarTribune.com rss feed
The Return of the Names of Every Member… is the basic source for lists of parliamentary burgesses.
The police could not arrest anyone, for the basket contained two Members of Parliament and the commanding Officer of the station!
He tried to push the amendment through Parliament.
The Russian Parliament will hold a special session later this month to decide his fate.
Unitary Because all legislative power stems from Parliament, we have a unitary as opposed to a federal constitution.
Britain is a country without entrenched constitutional limits on the powers of its supreme regular legislator, Parliament.
The European Parliament approves the EU's budget, and co-decides most EU legislation with the Council of Ministers, which comprises the 15 member states.
In short, the reforms were an effort to bring under scrutiny the activities of all Government ministries and departments through the supreme law making body of the country, Parliament.
In a hawkish, emotional speech to the Romanian parliament, Tony Blair said Milosevic was the real target of the war.
Cameron's posing on a podium on Friday, inviting Lib Dems to join his Tory revolution, was an appropriate piece of pantomime to end Parliament's last full week before Christmas.
This, as may be imagined, made her husband no less desirous of a separation than herself, and he prosecuted his design in the most effectual manner: for he applied, not to the ecclesiastical courts for a divorce, but to the Parliament for an Act by which his marriage might be dissolved, the nuptial contract annulled, and the children of his wife illegitimated. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
It was produced by the all-party parliamentary beer association, which receives more than £35,000 a year from pub and brewery companies.
The Treasurer is right: the remark must be withdrawn if it is unparliamentary and offensive.
It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultravires rule in company law altogether.
Landowners in Winterbourne Monkton had an Act of Parliament passed in 1813 to enable them to enclose common land in the parish.
The level of outrage is absurd: it's front page news and questions have been asked in Parliament.
The inference was unambiguous: the parliament was an intrusive, petty-minded bunch of jobsworths, bereft of any credibility.
The legislation is expected to be passed in the next parliament.
Word is now that Stephen Harper is going to try to progue Parliament again until after the Olympics rather than submit to an order by the House of Commons to turn over uncensored documents in the Afghan prisoner investigation. Rumors of a coup
Both were possessed of massive majorities in Parliament and both believed the opposition to be a spent force, vanquished to the political shadowlands.
MPs should be held to account if they unfairly abuse parliamentary privilege and hurt innocent Kiwi families.
The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
Overnight she told the nation that she will not allow it, because parliamentarians come to Parliament to make decisions.

How To Use Parliament In A Sentence

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