adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a congressional/parliamentary election (= to elect people to a congress or parliament )
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People voted overwhelmingly Republican in the last congressional elections.
a parliamentary candidate
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O'Connor was the parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrats.
a parliamentary commission
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A report was made by a special parliamentary commission.
a parliamentary democracy (= one with an elected parliament )
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Britain is a parliamentary democracy.
a parliamentary majority (= one that has enough seats in parliament to control it )
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Labour increased its parliamentary majority.
a parliamentary seat
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He and his followers won 10 of the state's 13 parliamentary seats in last month's general election.
a parliamentary/congressional inquiry (= by Parliament/Congress )
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The report of a parliamentary inquiry into the drugs trade is published today.
parliamentary approval
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The law is still awaiting parliamentary approval.
parliamentary scrutiny (= by parliament )
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The Labour Party expressed concern about the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of MI5.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approval
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It failed to win government and parliamentary approval .
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A proposal by the opposition Labour Party for a more extensive package failed to gain parliamentary approval .
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Development plans by government agencies which were opposed by the Park would require parliamentary approval .
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The draft orders are again the subject of consultation, following which parliamentary approval turns them into legal binding requirements.
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At present there is a moratorium on the construction of nuclear plants, and the plans would need parliamentary approval .
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The head of state would have no powers to dissolve parliament or to appoint state officials without parliamentary approval .
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Known as the Crossman scheme, it failed to gain parliamentary approval before the 1970 election.
candidate
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Hadley is NatPower's new business development director but happens to share his name with the Responsible Independent parliamentary candidate for Wimbledon.
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Each of the prospective parliamentary candidates for Orkney and Shetland added their voices to the growing storm of unrest.
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The same argument applies with even greater force to the parliamentary candidates - Jones, Thorne, Davis and Gardner.
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In 1936 she was adopted as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Exchange division of Liverpool.
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John Taylor became one of the best known prospective parliamentary candidates when some local tories objected to his selection.
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But for the 4 prospective parliamentary candidates ... the proof of the pudding has to be in the eating.
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Alan Milburn, Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Darlington, claims the figures are only the tip of the iceberg.
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Keir Hardie joined Labour because the Liberals would not make him, a miner, a parliamentary candidate .
colleague
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I remember vividly the response which this evoked among many of my parliamentary colleagues .
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They were not respecters of party lines and the last two in particular were widely distrusted among parliamentary colleagues .
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My parliamentary colleague , the Member for Ludlow, Christopher Gill, has been leading the chase.
commission
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The parliamentary commission investigating Mr Kohl has said it will not use the files as evidence.
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Unity and the Communists also agreed on who should preside over the parliamentary commissions .
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A parliamentary commission is re-evaluating Tangentopoli.
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In October 1989 the opposition unsuccessfully attempted to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the affair.
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It called for the formation of a joint parliamentary commission in April, when the two-plus-four talks would also begin.
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A parliamentary commission is investigating whether Mr Kohl's governments swapped favours for party donations.
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A parliamentary commission was appointed on April 18 to investigate the Shkodër killings.
committee
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Civil servants give evidence to parliamentary committees and other official inquiries.
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If the parliamentary committee wishes to see Britain's racing transformed, it should forget about tampering with the levy rate.
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He continued to serve on increasing numbers of parliamentary committees until his death 26 March 1652.
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The panel's report, which has been submitted to a parliamentary committee , set out two lines of argument.
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He was named to all the parliamentary committees for Shropshire from 1646 until his death.
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As an important Liverpool trader, he was on most of the parliamentary committees concerning trade, monopolies, and navigation.
constituency
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Also Brent East has the highest concentration of immigrants of any parliamentary constituency in the country.
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Separated for local government purposes, the Hartlepools were united as one parliamentary constituency in 1868.
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Even in a traditionally Conservative parliamentary constituency , the youthful team could be crucially important.
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Of crucial importance, in the end, was the fact that all four areas were in Conservative-held parliamentary constituencies .
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Pocket-Breaches, Veneering's bought parliamentary constituency .
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The commissioners are enjoined not to cross local authority boundaries in creating parliamentary constituencies .
control
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The comptroller's scrutiny of items of expenditure helped promote Treasury and parliamentary control of public expenditure.
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There is no parliamentary control over Government borrowing.
debate
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The series of parliamentary debates and votes leading to the congress session revealed deep-seated divisions among the opposition.
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The parliamentary debate on the Report showed the Home Secretary adopting a two-pronged strategy in his response.
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The parliamentary debate has been deferred.
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The language of parliamentary debate in Britain has reflected this change.
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Television also received a disproportionate amount of public attention in the press and parliamentary debate .
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Soporific parliamentary debates now make essential viewing, and posters and T-shirts bearing his features sell fast.
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They were subject to exhaustive parliamentary debate and, on occasion, referendum.
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A parliamentary debate on the issue might be the one thing to tear the coalition apart.
democracy
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As a whole it reaffirmed liberal individualism, pluralism and parliamentary democracy .
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Established elements of parliamentary democracy in Britain are challenged.
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I see no purpose in a further referendum on that matter - we are a parliamentary democracy .
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Perhaps that is one of the safeguards that has made this country such a successful and stable parliamentary democracy .
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However, we should interfere in local government with some trepidation because local democracy and local accountability underpin parliamentary democracy and accountability.
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Is majority rule under a system of parliamentary democracy a sufficient guarantee of legitimacy?
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For the whole sample, the comparison reveals that presidential democracies are more likely to break down than parliamentary democracies.
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Within our system of parliamentary democracy , only inter-party competition was seen as crucial and desirable.
deputy
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Six parliamentary deputies faced criminal prosecution once their parliamentary immunity had been removed.
election
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Local and parliamentary elections are due this autumn, and Mr Milosevic may hold the presidential poll early, possibly in September.
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A parliamentary election dominated by his Communist opponents.
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Impressed by Chandrika's brilliant campaigning, Mrs Bandaranaike stepped down as party leader before the 1994 parliamentary elections .
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Otherwise, the ruling center-right coalition was sure to lose the 1998 parliamentary elections .
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The decision highlighted scandals plaguing the ruling Socialist Party just five weeks before parliamentary elections .
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Jan 12, following the parliamentary elections held on Dec 10, 1989.
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But he would vote for the official Labour candidate in a parliamentary election .
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Now everyone expects Ion Iliescu and his post-communist party to win this autumn's presidential and parliamentary elections .
enclosure
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The landscape of parliamentary enclosure at Oare on Exmoor Somerset.
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The landscape of parliamentary enclosure in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.
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But probably four out of five of these farmsteads in the fields are the consequence of parliamentary enclosure .
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The landscape of parliamentary enclosure at Brauston, Leicestershire.
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Farmsteads are still rare outside the villages: the few that exist were mostly built after the parliamentary enclosure of the parishes.
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On the far side of the meadows of the River Welland are the regular fields of parliamentary enclosure .
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The landscape of parliamentary enclosure on King s Sedgemoor Somerset Levels.
government
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With the introduction of parliamentary government in 1918, a layer of elected politicians was superimposed on the existing administrative apparatus.
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The fourth element of the constitution is one that I have described as a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy.
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Morley denied that they were intended as a prelude to parliamentary government .
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Such was the power of the High Command that they were able to install a parliamentary government by a few sharp memoranda.
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The Basic Law inaugurated a system of parliamentary government , in which the prime division is between government and opposition.
immunity
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The House refused demands it stripped Muawad of his parliamentary immunity .
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Six parliamentary deputies faced criminal prosecution once their parliamentary immunity had been removed.
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Qirrish's parliamentary immunity was removed.
inquiry
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But it is the upcoming parliamentary inquiry into the affair that promises to produce the real fireworks.
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Shekhar initially apologised over the surveillance and offered a joint parliamentary inquiry .
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On June 27 the liberal opposition failed to win sufficient support to set up a parliamentary inquiry .
institution
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The 1979 Constitution was suspended, and parliamentary institutions were abolished.
leader
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But after the vote on Mr Craxi, parliamentary leaders agreed to take all such decisions by a show of hands.
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Connie Hedegaard took over from Engell as the Conservatives' parliamentary leader .
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Disappointment and frustration began to accumulate in criticism of Buxton as parliamentary leader of the cause.
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Were they a challenge or complement to parliamentary leaders ?
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Hence the parliamentary leaders dominated the mass party, which was conceived only as a means for contesting elections.
majority
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The draft was due to be discussed with opposition parties in September with a view to securing a parliamentary majority .
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Will Barak be able to go on ignoring the contradictions of his parliamentary majority for much longer?
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Was it because its parliamentary majority prevented any real possibility of its position being threatened?
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Yet there was always an element of complacency about an administration which enjoyed a substantial parliamentary majority .
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Ministers could expect to have a parliamentary majority whatever they did.
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He had only a tiny parliamentary majority , and Britain was in the grip of another economic crisis.
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A key provision was the need for a three-fifths parliamentary majority for constitutional amendments.
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Buthe won the 1996 election so narrowly that he reluctantly had to rely on the nationalist parties for a stable parliamentary majority .
material
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If this is correct, the purposes for which parliamentary material will be admitted is enlarged.
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Again, is parliamentary material admissible in support of an argument for an alternative construction?
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And the Committee has kept a close watch on the uses made by the broadcasters of parliamentary material in their programmes.
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Contextual parliamentary material is only admissible to the extent necessary to understand parliamentary statements establishing parliamentary intent.
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When reference to contextual parliamentary material is necessary is also uncertain.
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So, for what purposes may parliamentary material be admitted where a legislative text is ambiguous or obscure?
opposition
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In the spring of 1962, with the national emergency now over, the parliamentary opposition came back to life.
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Nor did he enjoy the business of parliamentary opposition .
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Restraint was initially the responsibility of the parliamentary opposition using a system of procedural checks on estimates and expenditure payments.
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The announcement represented a compromise after weeks of tension between the government and the parliamentary opposition .
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Most leading ministers resigned, complaining of his dictatorial behaviour, and now form the parliamentary opposition .
party
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The division occurred on the day of a vital meeting of the 140 members of the Janata Dal parliamentary party .
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After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton.
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The latter was essentially isolated within the Conservative parliamentary party .
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Now, the Leader of that parliamentary party with an overall majority is entitled to be asked to form a government.
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Membership of the parliamentary party has changed; the manual workers have all but disappeared.
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There were also increasingly visible divisions within the parliamentary party itself.
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The right-wing populist Progress Party is the only one of the eight parliamentary parties opposed to the treaty.
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The clearest characteristic of the parliamentary party was its strongly regional base.
politics
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They are also the continuing decline of parliamentary politics and political control increasingly orchestrated by a small clique within the Cabinet.
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Yet mass media coverage of general elections and parliamentary politics is highly personalized and concentrates on the party leaders.
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But these delicate flowers of parliamentary politics could not blossom in the climate of autocracy.
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However, they were not interested in parliamentary politics but in arousing the workers.
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All was far from well in parliamentary politics .
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On July 16 Bhutto announced her intention to abandon parliamentary politics and engage in street demonstrations to press for fresh elections.
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The connection between parliamentary politics and the filling of revenue posts was continuous throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
procedure
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In 1983 the Procedure Committee recommended drastic revision of parliamentary procedure on taxation.
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The vote came after majority Nationalist Party officials said today the party would use parliamentary procedures to block implementation of the bills.
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These parliamentary procedures rest upon the government's command of a majority.
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The arcane language of parliamentary procedures always seemed to come more easily to Dole than straight forward talk on fundamental values.
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Such breaches of parliamentary procedure carry a £500 fine.
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Mr Major insisted that the Government would abide by normal parliamentary procedures .
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Within a matter of weeks he had put in place a constituent procedure entirely different from the parliamentary procedure of 1945-46.
question
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Even a parliamentary question received such an ambiguous answer that deputies were little the wiser after the government's reply.
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A series of parliamentary questions has been asked about the funding of books in education.
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I have answered parliamentary questions from the hon. Gentleman when I have been able to do so.
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In theory all parliamentary questions must be answered after one month.
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My hon. Friend asked about answers to parliamentary questions .
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I have tabled parliamentary questions about that, but I have received no proper answers.
reform
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In 1832 the first parliamentary reform bill was passed and Dundee was one of the new constituencies created by the Act.
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Never forget that parliamentary reform has affected the lives of most readers of this paper.
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The Government are committed to sustaining the momentum of parliamentary reform .
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From early youth Cayley was a keen proponent of parliamentary reform , and he took an active part in local Whig politics.
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Pressure for some parliamentary reform , with a redistribution of seats and a widening of the franchise, began to develop.
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The campaign for parliamentary reform had drawn the population in, inpart through great reform meetings.
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The concession of some parliamentary reform was seen as necessary in order to prevent worse happenings.
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He was an active parliamentarian who supported Catholic emancipation, parliamentary reform , and the repeal of the corn laws.
report
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Its strident headlines implied that the march of modern Jacobinism was about to be started by an obscure parliamentary report .
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He studied the parliamentary reports closely after each session ended.
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SkyNews also broadcasts a live parliamentary report and covers the House in its nightly news bulletins.
representation
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Making parliamentary representation conditional upon loyalty to the Emperor system, formally narrowed the freedom for party initiatives.
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They may now congratulate themselves on having obtained some parliamentary representation .
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Croydon is indeed a borough fortunate in its parliamentary representation .
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It is in fact increased, in as much as their political choices are assured of fair parliamentary representation .
scrutiny
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Nevertheless, it is still open to question whether these arrangements are an adequate substitute for parliamentary scrutiny .
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It reformed the judicial system, buttressing its independence, and introduced parliamentary scrutiny of important public sector contracts and appointments.
seat
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In 1942 she married James Hoy who gained the Leith parliamentary seat for Labour in the 1945 general election.
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Many councils are controlled by their political opponents, even in areas where Conservatives hold parliamentary seats with quite large majorities.
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Hannington unsuccessfully contested parliamentary seats in 1929, 1931, 1934, and 1950.
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As events were to demonstrate, eleven parliamentary seats or a difference of twenty-two votes in a parliamentary division were at stake.
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Election results Mahathir's coalition won 127 parliamentary seats , thereby securing its two-thirds majority.
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The socialists looked set to lose 200 or more of their 270 parliamentary seats .
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They will be lucky if they retain as many as 80 of their present 265 parliamentary seats .
session
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It will bring forward legislation in the coming parliamentary session to introduce student loans, partially replacing grants, from autumn 1990.
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Barring unexpected defections from the coalition, Mr Hashimoto should be confirmed in a special parliamentary session on Thursday.
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My father has a flat, which he uses during the parliamentary session .
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He added that if swift action was taken, new legislation could be in place by the end of the parliamentary session .
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He was discovered and bitterly attacked by his former friends in the next parliamentary session .
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This dispute has been settled too late for the bill to be included in the parliamentary session that starts in November.
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The coming parliamentary session will provide a momentous opportunity for public debate on a matter of deep moral significance.
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Hoyte had twice extended the parliamentary session in 1991, ostensibly in order to allow new electoral rolls to be drawn up.
sovereignty
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It should not be seen as a restriction on parliamentary sovereignty .
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The threat which this arrangement poses to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty is obvious.
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The passion with which the mythology of parliamentary sovereignty is defended ... baffles Paris and Bonn.
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The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty was illegitimate, if not incomprehensible, to Rousseau.
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Neither distinction can be sustained when the courts are required to determine the limits of parliamentary sovereignty .
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By virtue of the concept of parliamentary sovereignty , the act would be definitive.
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It precedence derives from the concept of parliamentary sovereignty .
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The concept of the rule of law is not logically compatible with that of parliamentary sovereignty .
support
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Despite her current parliamentary support , analysts warn she could run into trouble because of her spouse-and her gender.
system
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A democratic, parliamentary system of government has been set up with free elections at least once every five years.
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Those pressures are all the more acute in a parliamentary system where a leader must respond to pressures from his colleagues.
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In parliamentary systems , too, Prime Ministers seem increasingly active in managing their media relations.
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In the model of liberal democracy, interests are aggregated through political parties and expressed within the parliamentary system .
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All elections in two-party parliamentary systems are essentially about whether or not it is time for a change.
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When this situation exists the freedom to protest outside the parliamentary system is of great importance to such minorities.
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Clearly, these views are incompatible with the Labour Party's acceptance of the parliamentary system .
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The fragility of the parliamentary system was already apparent.
time
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Occasionally governments assist private members with their Bills, particularly by allowing extra parliamentary time .
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Privatization, like nationalization, imposes a stiff workload and absorbs a great deal of parliamentary time .
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There is constant negotiation between the whips of the main parties over the use of parliamentary time .
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It could be considered a waste of prime parliamentary time .
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Today is a rare opportunity for Ulster Members to have parliamentary time .
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It would be an extravagant use of parliamentary time to require new legislation for changes of this kind.
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Mr. MacGregor I have not received any representations about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members.
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Mr. MacGregor I do not think that it is necessary to provide any more parliamentary time for that.
vote
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And they would have to garner at least 3 percent of the parliamentary vote to receive state funding.
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In contrast, no government has sought to remain in office after losing a parliamentary vote of confidence.
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Vote of confidence On April 19 the new government won a parliamentary vote of confidence by 339 votes to 207.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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parliamentary elections
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a parliamentary debate
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the Committee has kept a close watch on the uses made by the broadcasters of parliamentary material in their programmes.
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Both parties wanted the government to hold parliamentary elections first.
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Collectively they are evidence of a coherent, deeply felt, formidable body of opinion within the present Conservative parliamentary party.
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Formally, it was parliamentary and the approval of the Supreme Soviet was needed for all significant laws and appointments.
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He subsequently fought and held his parliamentary seat against his former party.
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Land was the basis of Lowther's county and parliamentary position; the law gave him added influence and opportunity.
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That apparatus does not fit with parliamentary self-government.
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The settlement followed three weeks of mounting tension which triggered communal rioting and disrupted government and parliamentary business.