How to Use parliament in a Sentence

parliament

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  • 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 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
  • Not in your boardrooms or your C-suites or in your houses of parliaments or in your Congress.
    — Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Protesters stormed into and set fire to parts of the nation's parliament buildings.
    — Emmanuel Igunza, NPR, 26 June 2024
  • However, the move requires approval by parliament, and could be changed.
    — Sonia Sirletti, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The bill was passed by an overwhelming 208 votes with two abstentions in the single-chamber parliament.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Hasina recently told parliament that the U.S. wants to remove her from power at any cost.
    — Julhas Alam and Krutika Pathi The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The European Union’s parliament this week approved the bloc’s new carbon border tax.
    — Ed Ballard, wsj.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Poland will hold elections later this year for the Sejm (general parliament) and the Senate.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 28 June 2023
  • The vote on Thursday in the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, marked the formal start of the election campaign.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Sections of the parliament building were set ablaze as lawmakers inside passed a bill to raise taxes.
    — Fox News, 25 June 2024
  • Videos posted on social media Monday showed a crowd rattling the base’s metal gates and then running inside behind Zvi Sukkot, a member of the country’s parliament.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • The unrest swiftly spread to neighboring Uganda, where citizens attempted to march to the parliament in the capital, Kampala, on July 23 and 25.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 30 July 2024

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