How to Use parliamentary in a Sentence

parliamentary

adjective

• In the Netherlands, the far right won the most parliamentary seats in last year’s election.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
• Responding to a series of questions is not the same as parliamentary debate, of course.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
• Netanyahu and his allies need 61 seats for a parliamentary majority.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• Ukraine’s parliamentary press service confirmed that drone fragments had been found but said there were no casualties and no damage to the parliament building.
  — Yehor Konovalov and Katie Marie Davies, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024
• Israel has a parliamentary system made up of several parties – none of which have ever received enough votes on their own to secure a majority of seats in parliament.
  — Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
• Dodon’s party, however, was also routed in parliamentary elections in July 2021, and the plan went nowhere.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• The planned strike has led to the closure of streets and schools, as well as the postponement of the day’s parliamentary session.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
• The State Opening has been used to mark the start of a parliamentary year since the late 14th century.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 July 2024
• On Tuesday, the King kicked off the first start of the parliamentary year of his royal reign at the Palace of Westminster.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
• About a third of young people don’t vote in the first round of parliamentary elections.
  — Nadia Beard, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• She was met with cheers and applause in the packed parliamentary chamber.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Lai won with just a bit more than 40 percent of the vote, and the DPP failed to win a parliamentary majority.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• That means that vote after vote over the next two years will likely teeter on a parliamentary cliff.
  — Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
• All three parties were part of the pro-Sisi bloc during the last parliamentary elections.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• That led President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election for the end of the month.
  — Simon Constable, Fox News, 16 June 2024
• Popova failed to win a seat in parliamentary elections in 2021.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard and Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
• If this country had a more parliamentary system, a snap election would have already been called, and the House GOP may well have lost it.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2023
• There, the scene has devolved over the past week into the parliamentary equivalent of a Superfund site.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• There will be a push to vote before EU parliamentary elections in early June 2024.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
• Israel’s parliamentary system: The Supreme Court is viewed as the sole check on lawmakers and the prime minister.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• On Monday, the first-day of the special session, the House stumbled out of the gate as a proposal to suspend the rules to speed up the parliamentary process failed on multiple voice votes.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2023
• The bill, which is subject to changes during a parliamentary committee debate, needs at least 75 votes to pass.
  — Renee Maltezou, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
• The vote on part of the legislation is just the first of three readings required for parliamentary approval, a process that is expected to take months.
  — Laurie Kellman and Ilan Ben Zion, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• In late April, during the first phase of the election, where nearly one-fifth of all parliamentary seats were going to polls, witnessed poor voter turnout.
  — Nilesh Christopher, WIRED, 30 July 2024
• Jansa was ousted from power in the parliamentary election in April.
  — Dusan Stojanovic, ajc, 13 Nov. 2022
• In June, voters throughout the E.U. gave far-right parties record support in the bloc’s parliamentary elections.
  — TIME, 30 July 2024
• Until 2019, the Tories held only three out of twenty-nine parliamentary seats in the region.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• The event was especially momentous as the first of King Charles’ reign, and his ceremonial role helped mark the start of the parliamentary year.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
• The Islamic Republic faces parliamentary elections next year, and any easing of Western sanctions could give its rulers a boost in the polls.
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 28 June 2023
• The plan has been delayed until Israeli lawmakers return for their next parliamentary session at the end of April.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024