What's the difference between prorogue and prorogued?
Prorogue
Definition:
(v. t.) To protract; to prolong; to extend.
(v. t.) To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage.
(v. t.) To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business.
Example Sentences:
(1) Canberra, November 11 In a move that has stunned Australia, the Labor Prime Minister, Mr Gough Whitlam, was today dismissed from office and Parliament prorogued by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr.
(2) The governor general did so in a proclamation on Monday, proroguing parliament on 15 April for a new session to begin on 18 April.
(3) Time and again, the then leader of the house, Andrew Lansley, was forced to explain why there wasn’t much government business going on ; his nadir came when he had to find a reason, other than inactivity, why the Commons was being prorogued a week earlier than usual at Easter.
(4) At the close of Thursday's session – the last of this parliament – the house will be prorogued.
(5) The move relies on power in section 5 of the constitution for the governor general, which says he or she can set sessions of the parliament when he or she wants by proroguing parliament.
(6) When the opposition united once more to demand the release of paperwork on the subject, Harper refused … and then persuaded the governor general to prorogue parliament again.
(7) In one instance from April 1914 quoted at length in paper, the governor general explained he had prorogued parliament for parliament “to resume your deliberations earlier than usual” and to “expedite the despatch of urgent public business” including legislation that failed to pass in earlier sessions.
(8) April 6-8 The "wash-up" period, in which the government rushes through a final few bills before parliament is prorogued, takes place.
(9) As it stands, Mr Fraser was voted out by the Lower House in its last act before being prorogued.
(10) March 17 John Major announces parliament will be prorogued, aparently burying Downey report until after general election.
(11) Before parliament was officially prorogued on Monday it targeted cost of living concerns with an announcement that it would provide an extra $450m for before- and after-school care services to provide new places or new care programs.
(12) The paper said the governor general must exercise the power to prorogue parliament on advice of the prime minister, and there was “no known suggestion” of a reserve power to reject that advice.
Prorogued
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Prorogue
Example Sentences:
(1) Canberra, November 11 In a move that has stunned Australia, the Labor Prime Minister, Mr Gough Whitlam, was today dismissed from office and Parliament prorogued by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr.
(2) The governor general did so in a proclamation on Monday, proroguing parliament on 15 April for a new session to begin on 18 April.
(3) Time and again, the then leader of the house, Andrew Lansley, was forced to explain why there wasn’t much government business going on ; his nadir came when he had to find a reason, other than inactivity, why the Commons was being prorogued a week earlier than usual at Easter.
(4) At the close of Thursday's session – the last of this parliament – the house will be prorogued.
(5) The move relies on power in section 5 of the constitution for the governor general, which says he or she can set sessions of the parliament when he or she wants by proroguing parliament.
(6) When the opposition united once more to demand the release of paperwork on the subject, Harper refused … and then persuaded the governor general to prorogue parliament again.
(7) In one instance from April 1914 quoted at length in paper, the governor general explained he had prorogued parliament for parliament “to resume your deliberations earlier than usual” and to “expedite the despatch of urgent public business” including legislation that failed to pass in earlier sessions.
(8) April 6-8 The "wash-up" period, in which the government rushes through a final few bills before parliament is prorogued, takes place.
(9) As it stands, Mr Fraser was voted out by the Lower House in its last act before being prorogued.
(10) March 17 John Major announces parliament will be prorogued, aparently burying Downey report until after general election.
(11) Before parliament was officially prorogued on Monday it targeted cost of living concerns with an announcement that it would provide an extra $450m for before- and after-school care services to provide new places or new care programs.
(12) The paper said the governor general must exercise the power to prorogue parliament on advice of the prime minister, and there was “no known suggestion” of a reserve power to reject that advice.