(n.) A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.
(n.) The whole body of people in a state; the public.
(n.) Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have operated within the policy and regulatory framework set out by the Commonwealth government.
(2) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
(3) Commonwealth annual funding for vocational education and training (VET) had increased by 25% in real terms since Labor came to office in 2007, amounting to more than $19bn, according to Rudd.
(4) However, a no show from the leader of the Commonwealth's biggest member would be a huge blow to the credibility of the organisation.
(5) From next year, this multi-layered service will cover the Winter Olympics, the World Cup, the FA Cup and Commonwealth Games, alongside major festivals like the Proms, the Edinburgh Festival and Glastonbury.
(6) He renounced his Australian citizenship , returned his passport and Medicare card to the Australian Commonwealth, and sent his driver’s licence back to the chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory, where he then lived.
(7) The New South Wales premier, Mike Baird, is also demanding the commonwealth reverse the cuts.
(8) UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) Hugh Robertson has been appointed as Minister of State at Foreign & Commonwealth Office #reshuffle @foreignoffice October 7, 2013 Hugh Robertson was sports minister.
(9) The commonwealth and state government gets royalties, but it’s not being shared with the Indigenous communities,” he said.
(10) In a recent decision, Commonwealth v. Kobrin, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a psychiatrist being investigated for possible Medicaid fraud did not have to turn over all of his notes concerning therapy sessions.
(11) In his critique of a GST increase on equity grounds, Bowen noted that Morrison had opened his tenure in the treasury portfolio by declaring the Commonwealth had a spending problem, not a revenue problem – but now seemed more interested in chasing revenue than cutting spending.
(12) Joyce sidestepped the question of whether the federal government was ignoring the advice of its agriculture minister, and said there were 17 steps for a mine approval and the commonwealth had a role in only one.
(13) Russell also described the Commonwealth Games as a catalyst but was realistic enough not to claim they immediately changed an area with long, deep-rooted problems, or miraculously roused a poor, generally unhealthy local population into vigorously playing sport.
(14) Its report, which focuses on what the commonwealth can do to improve access to mental health care, was delivered to the government in November but has not been made public.
(15) Next month Commonwealth leaders gather in Sri Lanka amid a bleak human rights situation as the country emerges from two decades of civil war that saw 40,000 civilians lose their lives .
(16) David Cameron has attacked Labour's "rank hypocrisy" in calling for him to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as he claimed his visit to the country's war-torn north will help give a voice to the dispossessed.
(17) The results of the study indicate that the number of deaths was higher for males than females and was positively related to age, the size of the 'at risk' population and crowding, but negatively associated with water hardness and the size of the New Commonwealth population.
(18) Coming only months after the controversial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in Colombo, the arrests will embarrass the British prime minister.
(19) The Nationals also have questions about Greg Hunt’s Department of the Environment retaining responsibility for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder , which manages environmental water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin.
(20) While there are smiles in the Ennis-Hill household, the organisers of the Commonwealth Games will be ruing the loss of a major star – especially as Britain's 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah has admitted that the games are "not on my list" for 2014, and the 100m world record holder Usain Bolt is yet to commit.
Hansard
Definition:
(n.) An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
(n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Describing his blueprint for Parliament 2.0, Bercow says in a speech to the Hansard Society on Wednesday that parliament needs to "reconcile traditional concepts and institutions of representative democracy with the technological revolution witnessed over the past decade or two, which has created both a demand for and an opportunity to establish a digital democracy".
(2) O'Donnell also called for an independent body, such as the Hansard Society, to be given responsibility for overseeing the rules on TV election debates between the party leaders.
(3) For those who remain in doubt, the clearest possible case is made out in the Hansard Society's recently published Audit of Political Engagement 9, Part Two, Media and Politics .
(4) Dr Ruth Fox, director and head of research at the Hansard Society, who co-authored the findings, said: "PMQs is a cue for the public's wider perceptions of parliament.
(5) In the debate today Harris said it was his understanding that BBC Newsnight were also being "threatened" by Carter-Ruck if they repeated a claim, even though it was recorded in parliamentary Hansard.
(6) A 2009 examination of all of her recorded words in Hansard gave Thatcher a "conceptual complexity" score way below that of any other postwar prime minister.
(7) Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová , who star, wrote and sang all its beautiful songs, one of which went on to win an Oscar in 2008.
(8) But, as research from the Hansard Society showed last year , for voters it confirms everything they believe about the sheer futility of the political world.
(9) Kaufman’s last spoken contribution in the Commons chamber was in a debate paying tribute to the Queen on her 90th birthday on 21 April last year, according to Hansard, the official report of proceedings in parliament.
(10) Dastyari thanks Cormann for the effective justification he's just read into the hansard.
(11) On Thursday, Ruth Fox, director of the Hansard Society, one of UK’s oldest parliamentary campaigning groups, said it was likely that the prime minister would have to share a stage with the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, as Labour would be “very opposed to it all being done just through the prime minister”.
(12) Describing his blueprint for Parliament 2.0, Bercow said in a speech to the Hansard Society that parliament needed to "reconcile traditional concepts and institutions of representative democracy with the technological revolution witnessed over the past decade or two, which has created both a demand for and an opportunity to establish a digital democracy".
(13) He claimed that he was the first to present the detailed arguments in favour, in a Hansard Society paper in 1963.
(14) A Hansard Society report on the 2005 intake of MPs found that there were some who spent 90% of their time on constituency work, and now there are increasing worries that an MP's complementary role, that of keeping a check on the executive, is being damaged.
(15) There's still the problem of machine-gun speakers, of course, but I can catch up with Hansard."
(16) It's "like a scene from a school playground", complained a member of a focus group convened by the Hansard Society .
(17) The Hansard Society – an independent political research and education organisation – recommended a range of reforms be made to the session, including moving it to a Tuesday or Wednesday evening to allow more people to watch it and introducing a "sin bin" penalty for unruly MPs.
(18) The present results show that the total percentage of plasma 59Fe transferred to the milk and sucklings in the lactating rat is much more than those values reported in lactating rabbits (Tarvydas, Jordan and Morgan, 1968) and sows (Hansard, 1965).
(19) On the question of which changes the 1,300 site users who responded to the survey would like to see in the UK's political culture, 84% backed the proposal from the Hansard Society earlier this year to vary the format of the notoriously rowdy prime minister's questions (PMQs), including introducing rapid-fire Q&As, more open questions and penalties for MPs who behave badly.
(20) The report, leaked to the Daily Telegraph and since read into Hansard by the Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, offers no evidence, only suspicion, that STC were encouraging protests.