How to Use parliament in a Sentence

parliament

noun
  • The law was passed in the present parliament.
  • The parliament has authority over the armed forces.
  • The issue was debated in Parliament.
  • The new parliament starts its four-year term at the end of May.
    Se Eun Gong, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The parliament later called on member states to do the same.
    Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
  • If it is approved, the bill will progress to the next stage in parliament, reports Reuters.
    Sylvia Hui, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The bill, known as C-18, was approved by the lower house of parliament late last year.
    Paul Vieira, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The coalition still maintained the largest number of seats in parliament.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • And he’s just burned one of his key options, which is the option to dissolve parliament.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
  • The parliament is also next to Borsen, as the building is called.
    Christian Wienberg, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The vote now sends the legislation to the entire parliament for a series of votes.
    Yonat Friling, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Not in your boardrooms or your C-suites or in your houses of parliaments or in your Congress.
    Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Two far-right alliances are now the third- and fourth-largest groupings in the parliament, ahead of the centrist Renew Europe group.
    Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
  • She was elected to the lower house of state parliament in New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In France, the far-right candidate for EU parliament won 31.5% of the vote, according to exit polls.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
  • But the question is whether that will satisfy an electorate that voted the PTI as the largest party in parliament.
    Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The exposé even led to hearings in Japan’s parliament, but the response was largely muted.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
  • During the hearing, a lawyer for Swann — now a member of parliament for South Antrim — read a statement agreed upon by the parties.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The next vote will take place in the Senate in February and later in the French Congress, a special body composed of both chambers of parliament.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Today, Rwanda ranks first globally in the number of women in parliament at a rate of more than 60%.
    H.e. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Dr. K.y. Amoako, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But their rulings leave open paths for the City of Buenos Aires to put the system back online: One, the control commission in the city parliament must be functional.
    Karen Naundorf, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • One of Huda’s team even called a relative who worked in the Palestinian parliament.
    Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The new parliament chooses the country's next prime minister.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Purcell added, using the shorthand for a member of parliament.
    Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The prime minister recently told parliament that the U.S. wants to remove her from power at any cost.
    Julhas Alam, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The changes would reduce the Supreme Court’s ability to revoke laws passed in parliament and give the government greater influence over who gets to be a judge.
    Patrick Kingsley, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The government's approval, expected on Wednesday, is billed as the first step in a two-part plan and will still need approval by parliament.
    Time, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Lawmakers were under pressure to strike a deal before the EU parliament election campaign starts in the new year.
    Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The group dissolved parliament and placed its own committee in control of the government.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Forty-one of the 138-seat parliament have been set aside for political party candidates in this election.
    Jane Arraf, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024

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