(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.
Remit
Definition:
(v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
(v. t.) To restore.
(v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
(v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
(v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
(v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
(v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
(v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
(v. i.) To send money, as in payment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
(2) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
(3) Its remit was to produce a report on disinfection in endoscopy.
(4) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
(5) Anxiety disorders tend to be remitting and relapsing rather than chronic.
(6) She said the remit of the inquiry – established under the 2005 Inquiries Act – is due to be published by July, following input from interested parties including those who were spied upon.
(7) Each patient had a similar clinical course characterized by hypoglycemia that remitted during hospitalization and recurred after discharge.
(8) This deficit tends to remit for manics and schizoaffectives, but not for schizophrenics.
(9) Ten (71%) of the 14 patients in the group that received both drugs completely remitted (change in Hamilton Depression Rating Scale score of greater than 75%, and final score of less than 7) within 4 weeks, while few patients treated with desipramine alone met these criteria within 4 weeks.
(10) We performed 15 dynamic gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA)-enhanced MRI studies in 8 patients with relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis; 7 were follow-up studies.
(11) Because it ought to be crystal clear what the BBC has agreed to do as part of its public service remit.
(12) Thus, acute pancreatitis may fall to remit because of proximal pancreatic duct obstruction, for which pancreatoduodenectomy is a reasonable and effective treatment.
(13) Therefore, the cost was high by prolonged course of therapy to increase slightly remission rate, although it could remit a few more cases.
(14) First, Channel 4 , a commercial network with a public service remit, challenged the BBC's second child as the place where edgier material – and younger audiences – went.
(15) Commercial radio executives have criticised BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for failing to fulfill their public service remit – and suggested the two stations be switched to digital-only in a bid to boost digital take-up.
(16) ITN scrapped its news channel in 2005 but the BBC has a different remit and viewers look to it at time of national events such as a royal death or other major news stories.
(17) The pathogenesis of the relapsing and remitting paraplegia and its relationship with pregnancy is probably multi-factorial.
(18) One has to question how this fits with its core inflation-fighting remit?
(19) Hacked Off, which campaigns on behalf of victims of press intrusion for tighter press regulation, said this would help the government smooth out the wrinkles in the relevant clause added to the crime and courts bill, which attempts to define which publishers should be in or outside the regulator's remit.
(20) If the Parades Commission considers that the loyalist event falls within its remit, it could issue a determination that would limit its route, which currently passes the nationalist Short Strand.