prorogation

[ UK /pɹˌɔːɹəɡˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. discontinuation of the meeting (of a legislative body) without dissolving it
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How To Use prorogation In A Sentence

  • The right-wing pundistas tell us at length why the burgeoning Facebook group opposed to prorogation is irrelevant. Frogs in a pot
  • help promote toronto anti-prorogation rally peter hallward: the international community scramb... Catching up, part 2: we don't like your beliefs, so we don't have to fund them
  • I second everything that TTF said, including that prorogation is a major problem that must be reformed. Matthew Yglesias » Checks and Balances
  • Roy MacGregor, while largely acknowledging that Stephen Harper seem to have little but contempt for Parliament, insists that no one but Parliament Hill reporters and opposition MPs much cares about prorogation, which is hard to pronounce and just plain boooooring. Why have a Parliament anyway?
  • The states-general of the League did not appear again; their prorogation was their death. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
  • Well, as Prime Minister, when he feels Parliment (same as your congress) is disjoined he can call a prorogation, a prorogation is a closing of Parliment (congress). WN.com - Articles related to US says old treaty disputes with Russia have no bearing on new nuclear arms treaty
  • What has been done in most cases has been simply to select the first page of them showing the date of assent, preceded, of course, by the prorogation.
  • Dedicated to the service of education and prorogation of the human culture HBEP has consistently pursued good taste, the best flavor and perfect image.
  • This prorogation is in the kings power and is often done for ten dayes only to put a stop to heares and debates in the houses, and also to put an end to something that is not Lik'd by ye government. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
  • What it gives rise to is a limited operational repugnancy or inconsistency within the meaning of section 2 of the Colonial Laws Validity Act, that is, prorogation under section 3 ought be given its full common law meaning.
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