(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 ...
Prorogation
Definition:
(n.) The act of counting in duration; prolongation.
(n.) The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command of the sovereign.
Example Sentences:
(1) Constitutional expert, Professor Anne Twomey, told Guardian Australia prorogation terminates the existing session of parliament which wipes clean the notice paper.
(2) Although prorogation technically terminates the progress of bills, under Senate standing orders they can be reintroduced so the government can pick up where it left off on the ABCC bill and registered organisations bill.
(3) That advice said it was the attorney general’s opinion prorogation was “soundly based in constitutional law and well-supported by a large and uniform body of constitutional precedents”.
(4) Labor has raised concerns that prorogation of parliament may interfere with the work of 70 ongoing Senate inquiries and suggested it could filibuster extra sittings of parliament as members have a right of reply to the governor general’s speech which open the new session of parliament.
(5) Government whips in both houses have to reach deals on which parts of the government programme, bill by bill, can reach the statute book before the prorogation of parliament and the election.
(6) Prorogation and recall of parliament has occurred 28 times since federation but not once since 1977.
(7) University of Queensland’s Professor Graeme Orr said prorogation was “abnormal but legal” and a court case challenging the move was very unlikely.
(8) Brandis included a research paper under his signature which showed prorogation and recall of parliament for an earlier sitting had occurred 28 times since federation.
(9) Given that that concludes the substantive work of the committee in this parliament, and that the committee has no further formal meetings scheduled before the prorogation of parliament, the committee decided that there was therefore no need for it to elect a new chairman for the remaining few weeks.
(10) Yesterday, the government abandoned much of its existing legislative programme as it scrambled to get on to a full election footing by tomorrow's prorogation.
(11) The paper noted although prorogation wipes bills from the notice paper, standing orders allowed them to be restored and “cleansing the notice paper has no effect” on the ability to use bills as a double-dissolution trigger.