(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.
Official
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
(n.) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.
(n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
(n.) Discharging an office or function.
(a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
(a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(3) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) 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.
(6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(7) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(8) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(9) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(10) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(11) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
(12) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(13) Sawers's views are echoed by both US and Israeli officials.
(14) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(15) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(16) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(17) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(18) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(19) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(20) Without a renewables target, Energy Department officials said, it would be possible for a large proportion of this shortfall to be met by gas-fired power generation.