(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.
Hanse
Definition:
(n.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.