(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 ...
Tenth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
(n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
(n.) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
(n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modified version of the National Adolescent Student Health Survey (NASHS) was administered to 3,803 eighth- and tenth-grade public school students during the fall of 1988.
(2) These patients represent the ninth and tenth successful operations for IAA in this age group and are reported with long-term reevaluation.
(3) A comparison of outcome was made between infants whose birth-weight for gestational age was below the tenth percentile and infants who had a low ponderal index from 37 weeks' gestation.
(4) Antigenicity was maintained up to the tenth passage.
(5) Roughly a tenth of treatment cycles and roughly a fifth of embryo transfers resulted in a clinical pregnancy.
(6) The tertiary base has been found to have papaverine like nonspecific smooth muscle relaxant and spasmolytic activity, but its activity was found to be about one-tenth of that of papaverine.
(7) Etizolam inhibited PAF-induced aggregation in a dose-dependent manner, with an IC50 of 3.8 microM, about one tenth that of triazolam (IC50 = 30 microM).
(8) With a tenth of the normal chloride conductance calculated responses show maintained firing following a constant current if the deactivating rate of the sodium channels (betam) is reduced by 25%.
(9) Bernanke says losses could be thought of in terms of 760,000 "full-time equivalent jobs" or unemployment down "another seven or eight tenths, something like that."
(10) One hundred patients were screened for hypercoagulability preoperatively and on the third, seventh, tenth, fourteenth, and twenty-first days postoperatively.
(11) Denervation of the kidney increased the urinary outputs of sodium and potassium while it decreased the rate of renin secretion to one-tenth of the resting value.
(12) Administration of dihydrotestosterone led to inhibition of xenograft growth at the ninth passage compared with untreated controls (P less than 0.05), but had no effect on xenograft growth at the tenth and twelfth passages when androgen receptors were absent.
(13) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(14) The tenth patient died from sepsis four months after the onset of steroid resistance.
(15) There was no detectable plasmid DNA at the tenth cell passages.
(16) PMPC, administered in dosis (200 mg per day) one-tenth those of NA (2,000 mg per day), produced a greater improvement (therapeutic effects) than NA.
(17) The tenth case of this curious entity in a diverticulum of urethra in women is presented here.
(18) Parallel to these alterations in the parasitism, the evolution of the corticosteronemy differs, from two points of view, from that described in infested virgin rats: --Suppression of the hypercorticosteronemy which normally appears 48 hours after infestation; --Attenuation of the hypocorticosteronemy which usually sets in from the tenth day of infestation.
(19) In addition, with interest rates remaining low across the eurozone, a nation that traditionally saves a tenth of its income has had to learn to look elsewhere to park its savings.
(20) The detachment process of the domestic chick from its mother, or any other imprinting object occurs between the sixth and tenth week after hatching.