parliamentary procedure

NOUN
  1. a body of rules followed by an assembly
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How To Use parliamentary procedure In A Sentence

  • In parliamentary procedure, cloture (pronounced/ˈkloʊtʃər/KLOH-chər), also called closure and sometimes a guillotine, is a motion or process aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. Think Progress » McConnell’s Faulty Logic: A Cloture Vote To Begin Senate Debate Actually Means A Vote To End It
  • I guess that tells us a great deal about the sort of thinking that resides within the Government - a certain contemptuousness about parliamentary procedure.
  • His tactics were to entangle the opposition in a web of parliamentary procedure.
  • His tactics were to entangle the opposition in a web of parliamentary procedure.
  • He has parliamentary procedure and the rules and traditions of the House of Commons at his fingertips.
  • It used parliamentary procedure to prevent voting in March on an identical amendment in the Commons, which had been proposed by Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary until 2007.
  • This had its reflex, to some extent, in lengthening the Conference by discussion of the method that should be adopted for parliamentary procedure. The International Labour Conference
  • The founders hated health insurance reform, and loved violence to enforce only functionalist parliamentary procedures! The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional?
  • They accused the government of riding roughshod over parliamentary procedure.
  • The vote came after majority Nationalist Party officials said today the party would use parliamentary procedures to block implementation of the bills.
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