(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.
Session
Definition:
(n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
(n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
(n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(3) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(4) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(5) With feedback, the rate of decrease in error over sessions was similiar for both levels of IQ.
(6) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(7) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(8) Successful extraction occurred during a single session in 125 of 219 patients (57%); 60 of 219 patients required two extraction sessions.
(9) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
(10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(11) On the reaction time task no main effects were found but the time X drinker category interaction was significant; in session 1 LSD's RT were shorter than those of HSD.
(12) Therefore, a study using 2-dimensional and M-mode backscatter imaging was performed in 20 normal male subjects by 2 observers at an initial session and by 1 of the observers after 1 week.
(13) The effects of learning history were evident on sessions 4 and 5 when the same consequence was contingent upon the performance of all groups.
(14) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(15) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
(16) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
(17) In the other component, the discriminative stimuli were the same each session (performance).
(18) Efferent units with spontaneous activity were uncommon at the start of the recording sessions but were more frequently encountered later in the experiments.
(19) Seventy male subjects participated in a six session study of feedback-mediated heart rate modification.
(20) In 92 percent of the patients the thoraco-abdominal aorta and its branches were well documented on 2 orthogonal projections performed in one single session.