(n.) One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I.
(n.) One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
(2) Among the thousands of candidates – whose nominations will be have to be put forward to the election commission in coming weeks – are expected to be Bollywood film stars, cricket players, serving parliamentarians accused of rape and murder, as well dozens of larger-than-life regional leaders.
(3) The German and Norwegian governments have expressed interest, as have parliamentarians from Italy, Spain and the European Union.
(4) I am working 24 hours a day, but I am not doing it because I am a parliamentarian,” she says.
(5) She’s no shortage of alternative addresses, of course, unlike the parliamentarians who are wishing their own repair bill away instead of waving it around.
(6) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(7) Moreover, companies in the extractive industries enjoy far too many benefits through unnecessary tax reliefs," argues Obert Gutu, a Zimbabwean parliamentarian.
(8) In Rwanda, where 64% of parliamentarians are women and the government has focused on education, clean water provision and a health insurance scheme, child deaths fell from 152 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 52 in 2013.
(9) Yesterday's decision forced swift action from the director of public prosecutions, but also gave parliamentarians much to think about in settling issues around the assisted suicidelaw.
(10) While British parliamentarians shouldn't expect rhetorical fireworks, it's possible she will add a personal flavour to her speech, as when she spoke in front of both chambers of the US Congress in 2009.
(11) For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.
(12) Anil Bairwal, one of the authors of the thinktank report, said the true number of state and national parliamentarians and candidates facing charges of sexual violence could be far higher, as most attacks were registered without reference to gender.
(13) The public and parliamentarians should not be finding out about potential Australian military involvement from US newspapers,” Bandt said.
(14) He said: "There are a community of interests between us and other parliamentarians in other EU countries.
(15) So CLP parliamentarians feared for their seats, notwithstanding that an election is not due until 2016.
(16) A man who has never even held a ministerial or shadow ministerial position now faces a momentous task: how to unite a party whose membership overwhelmingly endorsed him but whose support amongst parliamentarians is virtually non-existent.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest German parliamentarians vote to put the law on legalising same-sex marriage on the agenda.
(18) A Guardian poll in August 2013 produced a resounding no vote on quotas for UK parliamentarians .
(19) When you read of such sentences, remember that this is the same country in which – just a few years ago – over 300 parliamentarians were found to have claimed expenses to which they weren’t entitled; hundreds of thousands handed over to some of the richest people in the country for duck houses, moat repairs and heating their stables.
(20) Jeremy Corbyn could have ensured ministers were held to account in Brexit negotiations, but gave his parliamentarians a night off and wrote a blank cheque to the government.
Roundhead
Definition:
(n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the late 1960s I applied for a job at the BBC in Glasgow and was, as people at the BBC used to say, "boarded", meaning that I went to be interviewed by six or seven executives who sat at a long table facing me rather like the inquisitorial Roundheads in the William Frederick Yeames painting And When Did You Last See Your Father?
(2) It was rumoured that the department would get the chop as Conservative roundheads suggested folding the “ministry of fun” into the business department, but that is unlikely to happen with such a high-profile appointment.
(3) Naming an attacker whose form is so unpredictable was a cavalier gesture from the roundhead Benítez.
(4) It was a good test and a good opportunity to show we can compete.” For a clash between the roundheads and the pragmatic cavaliers of the Premier League , Spurs enjoyed the expected majority of possession in the first half without making it pay.
(5) That is more difficult and volatile, less cohesive, rooted in class and power, and riddled with grievances between competing forms of Englishness – democratic or deferential, closed or open, roundhead or cavalier.
(6) For Hollywood, which he called "Shepherd's Bush wrapped in cellophane", and the domestic industry he adapted the act in more than 100 films to roles such as the Roundhead colonel in the British civil-war epic The Scarlet Blade (1963), the perfidious Inspector Fred "Nosey" Parker in The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962), and as Stanley Farquhar, the spy who was as inefficient as the dog in The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966).
(7) Some say the last time the peace was disturbed was in 1643 when Roundheads and Cavaliers fought in its streets.
(8) Cesar plus military types (who always add a certain old-school glamour to a major trophy presentation, in my book, but that's a discussion for another day) The cavaliers had seen off the roundheads.
(9) Now an Anglican church, there are signs of Cromwellian vandalism, such as angels' faces smashed by the iconoclastic Roundhead soldiers, and, intriguingly, a memorial tablet to a Galwegian Jane Eyre – local legend has it she was the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë's heroine.
(10) If, during the constitutional settlement that will follow the referendum, we in England can rediscover our Roundhead tradition, we might yet counter our historic weakness for ethnic nationalism with an outpouring of civic engagement that creates a fairer society for all.