(a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
(a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
(a.) Discriminating choice; discernment.
(a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
(a.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
(a.) Those who are elected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(3) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(4) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(5) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(6) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(7) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(8) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(9) It is concluded that extradural adrenaline does not usefully reduce systemic absorption of 0.5% bupivacaine, but may improve its efficacy in extradural anaesthesia for elective Caesarean section.
(10) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(11) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(13) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(14) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(15) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
(16) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(17) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
(18) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
(19) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(20) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.
Parliament
Definition:
(n.) A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
(n.) A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.
(n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.
(n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(2) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(3) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
(4) Adviser to Solidarity, then member of parliament in 1989.
(5) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
(6) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(7) "We must be clear that there can be no letup in our efforts to seek ways to remove Bill Walker from parliament," Rennie said.
(8) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(9) The politician had to rely on a handful of independent members of parliament finally backing her before she could take up office at the head of a minority government.
(10) He said: "I don't want to talk any more about politics for one reason because I'm not in the House[es] of Parliament, I'm not a political person, I will talk about only football."
(11) Albrecht said it would represent a great success for the parliament's investigation into mass surveillance of EU citizens.
(12) There will be a "significantly accelerated reduction" in the structural element of the deficit over the parliament.
(13) Both Murdoch and his son James were called to testify before parliament.
(14) Dunne added: “If we find any evidence, we will pass it on to the committees on arms export controls.” No such evidence, until Monday, had been given to parliament.
(15) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
(16) Its findings will be presented to the BBC Trust as well as to both Houses of Parliament.
(17) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
(18) Osborne sought to turn the crisis to his advantage, however, telling parliament that falls in bond yields – the interest rate the government pays on its debts – were a "huge vote of confidence" by international investors in the coalition's plans to repair the public finances.
(19) And it comes as members of the European parliament in Brussels plan to establish a specialist group to campaign in favour of carbon divestment and demand new carbon reporting requirements.
(20) Now we need parliament to step in to fix what should have been fixed a long time ago.” In relation to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the IPT found that “email communications ... were lawfully and proportionately intercepted and accessed ...