(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.
Suspend
Definition:
(n.) To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
(n.) To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
(n.) To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.
(n.) To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.
(n.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
(v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).
Example Sentences:
(1) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
(2) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
(3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(4) Despite the nearly anaerobic state of the ascites tumor fluid in vivo, cancer cells suspended in this fluid oxidized FFA at least as fast as they do in vitro under aerobic conditions.
(5) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
(6) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(7) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(8) This combined process decreased by 63% the decimal reduction times for the heat treatment when the organism was suspended in buffer and by 43% when suspended in milk.
(9) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(10) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(11) The Eurostoxx banking index was up 1.7% Shares in Italy’s oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, were suspended after falling 15% after the EBA revealed it was one of nine Italian institutions to fail the tests.
(12) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
(13) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
(14) Intact suspended cells or lysed cells convert angiotensin I to angiotensin II, inactivate bradykinin, and hydrolyze hippuryldiglycine to hippuric acid and diglycine.
(15) Since early inhibition was not observed when E. coli cultures were inoculated with R17 bacteriophage suspended in phosphate buffer, early inhibition is not an intrinsic feature of R17 phage infection.
(16) The test organism, grown under anaerobic conditions in Trypticase soy broth, was diluted in buffered salt solution, and about 2 x 10(4) cells were suspended in 10 ml of an aerated broth.
(17) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
(18) Graphic photos of Said's injuries circulated online and became a rallying cause for activists opposed to Egypt's 29-year-old emergency law, which suspends many basic civil liberties and provides effective immunity for the security services before the courts.
(19) The conclusions are the following: (1) The storage of suspended erythrocytes at 2 degrees C up to 24 h or at 37 degrees C for 30 min did not change the water exchange time significantly, even if Mn2+ was present in the medium.
(20) The officer remains suspended and is expected to face a disciplinary hearing.