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  • Hanna lit a Parliament and swiveled the Sirius radio dial until she found a retro rap station playing "Baby Got Back."†   (source)
  • Once when the Royalists were trying to hold Bridgetown, Barbados, Parliament sent a troopship and subdued them in no time.†   (source)
  • The chart below shows a breakdown of two categories of Jamaican professionals, lawyers and members of parliament, in the early 1950s.†   (source)
  • That's because you get a good shot of the Houses of Parliament in the background.†   (source)
  • Father said Lumumba's party won thirty-five of a hundredy-some-odd seats in the new parliament, mainly because of his natural animal magnetism.†   (source)
  • For instance, in Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Lady Bruton invites Richard Dalloway, a member of Parliament, and Hugh Whitbread, who has a position at court, to luncheon.†   (source)
  • This one used to hang in the French parliament.†   (source)
  • The news provoked a last gasp of collectivism from Ernst Doerfler, a prominent member of the doomed East German parliament, who called for an official ban on "McDonald's and similar abnormal garbage-makers."†   (source)
  • It's just that I seem to remember a Mr Stevens who was a member of parliament a year or two ago.†   (source)
  • While he was plugging away at the School of Journalism he was living with a girl who at the time was active in the Syndicalists and today sits in Parliament as a representative of the Left party.†   (source)
  • From here I could see everything—the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye, even Cleopatra's Needle on the Victoria Embankment, where my mother had died.†   (source)
  • Answer me this, Sam—do you really think you know better than the King and those learned men in Parliament?†   (source)
  • On these occasions, the regent was surrounded by his amaphakathi, a group of councilors of high rank who functioned as the regent's parliament and judiciary.†   (source)
  • A parliament of regional leaders in Congo elected a nationalist named Patrice Lumumba as prime minister.†   (source)
  • You have your murder of ravens, your convocation of eagles, your gaggle of geese, your raft of ducks, your band of jays, your parliament of owls, and so on, but what about dragons?†   (source)
  • Now she has her eye on a seat in the national parliament.†   (source)
  • The needle-thin spires of Parliament peek up over the dusky outlines of chimneys.†   (source)
  • I did manage to see Piccadilly Circus, the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, and I marveled at the glorious detail of Big Ben and Parliament House.†   (source)
  • At the present moment, as far as he could see, she might be blasting Buckingham Palace or the Houses of Parliament: and it was almost certain that quite a number of policemen had by now been reduced to little heaps of dust.†   (source)
  • The Winter King is human and is still subject to the ruling of the Parliament.†   (source)
  • The Congress of the United States has no power to exile citizens, and the British Parliament has not, even in the gravest emergency, found it necessary to assume such a power.†   (source)
  • Even the location of the hospital was intimidating, close as it was to the great Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • I could be a young, intellectual member of parliament, and be interviewed about lots of important issues on television.†   (source)
  • A snail's pace, but nevertheless, schools, offices, a grand post office, a national bank, were coming up to match the grandeur of Trinity Cathedral, the Parliament Building, and the Jubilee Palace.†   (source)
  • "What, and the queen just comes and gets them when she's going to Parliament?"†   (source)
  • At Westminster people were packed solid, many having stood since morning, hoping for a glimpse of the King or some of the notables of Parliament.†   (source)
  • It had been a strange thing for us, to have our small village suddenly thrust into the high matters of king and parliament.†   (source)
  • Today the links between our parliaments are continued by the British-Irish Parliamentary Body, and last month 60 of our MPs set up a new all-party "Irish in Britain Parliamentary Group."†   (source)
  • The president sends a message to the Congress, the British monarch sends one to Parliament.†   (source)
  • The antivirus won't be held up in a vial in our parliament for all the world to see.†   (source)
  • He was a young member of parliament, an obstructionist where government expenditures were concerned, but actually quite popular.†   (source)
  • Queen Anne wrote to the Scot Parliament on July 1, 1706.†   (source)
  • However, if they didn't and shots were fired, much less loss of Glatun life, there would be questions asked in Parliament, AI queries, and of course the press would simply go wild.†   (source)
  • But the Houses of Parliament were unchanged: Nelson's solitary eye still stared down Whitehall: the dome of St. Paul's still stood above Ludgate Hill, though now there were taller buildings to challenge its pre-eminence.†   (source)
  • Tell your king and Parliament what we have done.†   (source)
  • But Rufo claimed to enjoy democracy—any time he felt depressed he sampled Washington, and the antics of the French Parliament were second only to the antics of French women.†   (source)
  • He had a bit of money in his pocket and he intended to give himself a decent meaL He thought he would walk through Hyde Park to Piccadilly, then through Green Park and St. James's Park to Parliament Square, then wander down Whitehall to the Strand where he could go to the big cafe near Charing Cross Station and get a reasonable steak for six shillings.†   (source)
  • …century —its revolutions in Paris, its generations of Russian exiles starting with Herzen, its assassinations of Tsars, some only plotted, others carried out, the whole of the workers' movement of the world, the whole of Marxism in the parliaments and universities of Europe, the whole of this new system of ideas with its newness, the swiftness of its conclusion, its irony, and its pitiless remedies elaborated in the name of pity-all of this was absorbed and expressed in Lenin, who…†   (source)
  • ROPER I've been offered a seat in the next Parliament.†   (source)
  • She had seen it once outside the Swiss Parliament building.†   (source)
  • For endless members of parliament debating things to a standstill.†   (source)
  • So they marched the army into parliament and reorganized it once again in Mobutu's favor.†   (source)
  • I'm in London with some Parliament lackeys.†   (source)
  • They were moved to Kashmir House in Islamabad, a hostel for members of parliament.†   (source)
  • Despite the morning fog, the park afforded splendid views of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.†   (source)
  • If we dispose of Washington, Parliament will do whatever we ask.†   (source)
  • "Parliament is as far away as the moon," complained Inkstained.†   (source)
  • You cannot guarantee Parliament would rule treason.†   (source)
  • Both the Parliament and the Congress give Madam Lockton rule over her slave.†   (source)
  • And some members of Parliament would fuss like wet hens.†   (source)
  • The meetings inspired the idea of Parliament.†   (source)
  • Right across the road is the Ontario Parliament Building, which is also old and dingy.†   (source)
  • The Irish parliament might have wanted to uphold citizens' rights.†   (source)
  • In Kyrgyzstan, women don't hold a single seat in parliament but run 90 percent of the NGOs.†   (source)
  • We've got about as much chance of communing with the dead as we do of sitting in Parliament.†   (source)
  • It is like trying to take down Parliament with only a thimble of gunpowder.†   (source)
  • "Now, the English Parliament—that wasn't my fault personally.†   (source)
  • Instead of leading people to their prayers, he had led them to war on behalf of the parliament.†   (source)
  • "The Parliament," said Bert, "called a council to debate the matter of succession.†   (source)
  • Were not the likes of Edmund Burke speaking out in Parliament for American rights, it was said.†   (source)
  • Fifty members of the British Parliament had staged a march in London.†   (source)
  • Ever since the owls' parliament began she had been yawning terribly and now she had dropped off.†   (source)
  • She'd reported the matter to the head of her party, and Parliament's security detail was informed.†   (source)
  • Like William, he was a member of Parliament and much admired by the King.†   (source)
  • Some of those men in Parliament agree with me, sir.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, we weren't supposed to pray for the King and Parliament anymore.†   (source)
  • As they passed the Parliament building she broke the silence.†   (source)
  • In the constitution, we said that women have to make up 30 percent of the parliament.†   (source)
  • NM: No African is a member of Parliament?†   (source)
  • It's all but certain that he had something to do with the deception of the Clockwork Parliament."†   (source)
  • Instead, he has learned to gain a majority in one of the two houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • But the king controlled the subjects parliament could discuss.†   (source)
  • He made us pray for the King and Parliament just the same.†   (source)
  • Her own job was to keep tabs on the government departments and Parliament on behalf of Millennium.†   (source)
  • WITNESS: They have got no vote as far as Parliament is concerned.†   (source)
  • …the members of the Parliament filed in and took their seats…†   (source)
  • But he recognized that the member of Parliament had reason enough for complaint.†   (source)
  • The Parliament members were not human at all.†   (source)
  • The king of Great Britain has an absolute negative on the acts of the two houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • Another act of Parliament prohibited the reproduction of any statement made by a banned person.†   (source)
  • The Parliament cannot accept the proposal.†   (source)
  • A new parliament must be called within three years after the previous parliament session is ended.†   (source)
  • Chapter Six The Tick-Tock Parliament "If that is true, then we may be lost," said Bert.†   (source)
  • Frequent parliament sessions were declared a fundamental right of the people.†   (source)
  • Parliament then made it the "Bill of Rights."†   (source)
  • Do you mean to say that they built those imposters in the Parliament?†   (source)
  • "The central seating is reserved for the human Parliament," Bert explained.†   (source)
  • The monarch appoints all judges; and he can petition the two Houses of Parliament to remove them.†   (source)
  • But he doesn't like to veto resolutions passed by the two houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • "The claim," the Steward continued, "has been approved by the Parliament.†   (source)
  • There is no king, and not even a real Parliament to give counsel.†   (source)
  • This may be where the idea that Parliament needs to approve treaties came from.†   (source)
  • Both Parliament and the State legislatures can correct, by law, court decisions they object to.†   (source)
  • When they got to the part about the Parliament, the small mammal cut in and changed the subject.†   (source)
  • Recently, eight-year terms for parliament have been established.†   (source)
  • You should have built a better Parliament.†   (source)
  • "Well, then," said Charles, "you ought to trust the Parliament.†   (source)
  • Parliament's actions alarmed the voters.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Parliament changes existing laws so that they conform to a new treaty.†   (source)
  • "It's because of the Parliament that they have allowed an empty throne for so long.†   (source)
  • The British monarch can adjourn or even dissolve the Parliament.†   (source)
  • The earliest records say that parliaments were to sit every year, not elected every year.†   (source)
  • The indictment is grounded in an Act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the Law of God.†   (source)
  • MORE The King in Parliament tells me that they are.†   (source)
  • (MORE is still looking off) ROPER There's to be a new Act through Parliament, sir!†   (source)
  • RICH He said, "Parliament has not the competence."†   (source)
  • Parliament has made our King Head of the Church.†   (source)
  • RICH Then he said Parliament had no power to do it.†   (source)
  • How if there were an Act of Parliament to say that God should not be God?†   (source)
  • Such petitions have in the past been unsuccessful, but the Committee expects, as well as hopes, that with the recent political changes, most notably the advent of a fully representational Parliament under the leadership of John A. Macdonald, this one will receive a favourable reception denied to its predecessors.†   (source)
  • I had watched on CNN masked young Greeks stoning police outside the parliament, cops in riot gear firing tear gas, swinging their batons.†   (source)
  • Have you written to Parliament?†   (source)
  • As they walked back toward Parliament Square Briony was light-headed and still weak in the knees from laughing so hard.†   (source)
  • In his own eyes he's a fantastically important politician with a future in Parliament and maybe ministerial rank, if the conservatives should win.†   (source)
  • With no fanfare save for the wind in the mute trees and the beating of their illicit hearts, they jumped, succumbed to the extended downward tug of the portal, the upward velocity, and sprang from a puddle inside the Houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • The Masons in parliament were furious.†   (source)
  • The last time I went to see Aimee, she was living in a slummy row house near Parliament Street, in Toronto.†   (source)
  • 2 Members of Parliament (percentage) 10 13 19 39 10 Look at the extraordinary advantage that their little bit of whiteness gave the colored minority.†   (source)
  • On the morning following our arrival, I went downstairs to the cafeteria, where fifty-seven children from twenty-three countries were waiting to have breakfast and to begin the United Nations First International Children's Parliament.†   (source)
  • After lunch Briony walked with Fiona across the river past the Houses of Parliament and into St. James's Park.†   (source)
  • Parliament Committee Chair, Chris Mullin, required all members of British Parliament who were Masons to declare their affiliation.†   (source)
  • Mae was trying to concentrate, but she was thinking of Annie, in her Parliament meeting, who was no doubt thinking of Mae and Kalden.†   (source)
  • He says now Patrice Lumumba and the other elected Congolese are trading chickens and eggs to set up a government that everybody in the parliament will go along with.†   (source)
  • "It wasn't so obviously a swindle given that the AIA board, the bankers, the government, and Parliament's auditors all approved Wennerström's accounting without a single dissenting vote."†   (source)
  • General Kayani and General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the head of ISI, were called to testify in parliament, something that had never happened.†   (source)
  • And it's one of the privileges of being born English that no matter who you are, no matter if you're rich or poor, you're born free and you're born so that you can express your opinion freely, and vote in your member of parliament or vote him out.†   (source)
  • Richard would ask at dinner, and I would dutifully recite, ticking off one building or park or statue after another: the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Kensington, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • Langdon vaguely recalled the Chapter House as a huge octagonal hall where the original British Parliament convened in the days before the modern Parliament building existed.†   (source)
  • The Chapter House was a kind of satellite structure—a freestanding annex at the end of the long hallway to ensure the privacy of the Parliament proceedings housed there.†   (source)
  • Imperceptibly, her weight would shift to her right foot as she stared across at the Houses of Parliament without seeing them, and thought not about her journal, but about the long story she had written and sent away to a magazine.†   (source)
  • We saw the Red Mosque where the siege had taken place, the wide, wide Constitution Avenue leading to the white-colonnaded buildings of the Parliament House and the Presidency, where Zardari now lived.†   (source)
  • Then Myra bustled in and scooped me up and led me forth, and I was having my hand shaken by the principal, and told how good it was of me to have come; then I was passed on to the vice-principal, the president of the Alumni Association, the head of the English department — a woman in a trouser suit — the representative from the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and finally the local member of Parliament, loath as such are to miss a trick.†   (source)
  • I can just picture the parliament room: a hundredy-some-odd Tata Ndus in pointy hats and no-glass glasses all flicking flies away with animal-tail magic wands in the sweltering heat, pretending to ignore each other.†   (source)
  • At the end of the hearing, Palmgren intimated that compulsory institutionalisation was in all probability not only contrary to Parliament's decisions in similar situations, but in this particular case it might in addition be the subject of political and media reprisals.†   (source)
  • In fact, Churchill had once told reporters that if English spies had infiltrated the Nazis to the degree the Illuminati had infiltrated English Parliament, the war would have been over in one month.†   (source)
  • The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinise company boards with the same merciless zeal with which political reporters pursue the tiniest steps out of line of ministers and members of Parliament.†   (source)
  • King's College, established by King George IV in 1829, houses its Department of Theology and Religious Studies adjacent to Parliament on property granted by the Crown.†   (source)
  • He would carry messages to Parliament, conduct his own business, and likely return to New York by the summer.†   (source)
  • The master's trip to London was moved up so that he could deliver news of the setbacks to the Parliament and King.†   (source)
  • I took a slow turn around the shop, admiring the shelves heavy with books, business forms, proclamations from Parliament and General Howe, slates, thick paper, quills, and sealing wax.†   (source)
  • As the other men argued about Parliament and letters of protest and counterletters and counter-counterletters, Shabbywig stabbed at the last pieces of tongue on his plate and shoved them into his mouth.†   (source)
  • Within months of its introduction, on the strength of that catchy phrase, Winston tipped, racing past Parliament, Kent, and L&M into second place, behind Viceroy, in the American cigarette market.†   (source)
  • "Well," said a fourth, "if Parliament can take away Mr. Hancock's wharf and Mr. Row's wharf, they can take away your barn and my house."†   (source)
  • The room buzzes with talk of the hunt and Parliament, horses and estates, but their eyes never stray too far from us.†   (source)
  • And if the revelation was blatant enough, prosecutors and police would be forced to act—otherwise parliament really would wake up and pay attention.†   (source)
  • Order everything you can find from Parliament: budgets, public reports, interpellations, and the like.†   (source)
  • At this time when the Parliament of Canada will be considering legislation designed to enhance the value and dignity of Canadian citizenship, these Orders will have precisely the opposite effect.†   (source)
  • The savagery went unchallenged until a report written by a British consul named Roger Casement detailed the horrors that had befallen the people of the Congo—he estimated that three million had died, while current scholars put the number at between five and ten million—causing an uproar in Europe that gave birth to the modern human rights movement and that eventually, in 1908, forced Leopold to cede control of the Congo Free State to the Belgian parliament.†   (source)
  • The Taoiseach has spoken of the exciting new relationships that will unfold as the people of Scotland and Wales, as well as Northern Ireland, express their wishes through their own parliaments and assemblies.†   (source)
  • According to a schoolmate whose father was a member of Parliament, the Lincoln was President Kennedy's used car, but not the one in which he'd been shot.†   (source)
  • I follow the curve around the Parliament Building with its form of a squatting Victorian dowager, darkish pink, skirts huffed out, stolid.†   (source)
  • He reminded himself that Paolo Roberto had also made a bid for a political career as a Social Democrat candidate for parliament.†   (source)
  • …on Japanese Canadians to the House and the Senate of Canada, April 1946 It is urgently submitted that the Orders-in-Council [for the deportation of Canadians of Japanese racial origin] are wrong and indefensible and constitute a grave threat to the rights and liberties of Canadian citizens, and that Parliament as guardian of these rights and the representative of the people, should assert its powers and require the Governor-in-Council to withdraw the Orders, for the following reasons.†   (source)
  • He drove past the Armenian church, then around the obelisk at Arat Kilo—another war monument at a roundabout—past the Gothic spires and domes of the Trinity Cathedral and then the Parliament Building, which took its inspiration from the one on the banks of the Thames.†   (source)
  • Parliament will commence, and hordes of families will begin their assault on our fair city for parties and teas, concerts, derbies, and entertainments of all sorts.†   (source)
  • On February 27, word arrived that Parliament, in December, had prohibited all trade with the colonies and denounced as traitors all Americans who did not make an unconditional submission.†   (source)
  • Members of Parliament and stable boys.†   (source)
  • And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.†   (source)
  • And as it had before, in what seemed the long-ago October of 1775, the Parliament approved the King's policy by an overwhelming margin.†   (source)
  • The business was small change, and liable at any time to set off hypocritical screeds in the media and debates in that strange political entity called the Swedish parliament.†   (source)
  • If this owls' parliament, as you call it, is all fair and above board and means no mischief, why does it have to be so jolly secret— meeting in a ruin in dead of night, and all that?†   (source)
  • It was he who had boasted to Parliament that with 5,000 men he could march from one end of the American continent to the other.†   (source)
  • And in Parliament, Wilberforce bargained furiously to build a voting bloc to overcome the shipping and slavery lobby.†   (source)
  • A third said, "What would you say, if a fellow should come to your house and tell you he was come to take a list of your cattle that Parliament might tax you for them at so much a head?†   (source)
  • As luck would have it, several other passengers had observed the whole course of events, including a persistent woman from Härnösand who happened to be a member of parliament for the Centre Party.†   (source)
  • Naturally in church we had to pray for the King and Parliament and that was a nuisance because it made the prayers go on longer.†   (source)
  • And what I want to say is this, that I'm the King's man; and if this parliament of owls is any sort of plot against the King, I'm having nothing to do with it.†   (source)
  • Yet for all that, no one in either house, Tory or Whig, denied the supremacy of Parliament in determining what was best for America.†   (source)
  • Eighty-one countries have set aside certain positions for women, typically a share of seats in parliament, to boost their political participation.†   (source)
  • Another frequent visitor, David Hartley, member of Parliament, old friend of Franklin's and an emissary from Lord North, struck Adams as a conceited dandy and almost certainly a spy.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FOUR A PARLIAMENT OF OWLS IT is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed; especially if you are lucky enough to have a fire in your room.†   (source)
  • From the United States I proceeded to Canada, where I had a meeting with Prime Minister Mulroney and also addressed their Parliament.†   (source)
  • By 2007 Rwanda surpassed Sweden to become the nation with the highest share of women members of any parliament in the world--48.†   (source)
  • DESPITE THE WAR, or more likely because of it, the King remained popular in the country at large and could count on a loyal following in Parliament.†   (source)
  • He says there ought to be some way of working it out with the King and Parliament without having to fight.†   (source)
  • EAGER FOR A BREAK from the doldrums of summer in London, with Parliament in recess and "everyone fled from the city," the Adamses decided to see some of the English countryside.†   (source)
  • "I'll have to look up exactly what applies, but I think you'll have to inform the speaker of Parliament and the constitutional committee.†   (source)
  • In Ethiopia, where Women's Campaign International trained women to run effective campaigns, the proportion of women in parliament rose from 8 percent to 21 percent.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Suzman was one of the few, if not the only, members of Parliament who took an interest in the plight of political prisoners.†   (source)
  • Edklinth and Armansky had known each other for twelve years, ever since a female member of Parliament had received death threats.†   (source)
  • One or two owls added that even here in the ruined tower it wasn't nearly so dark as it had been when they began, and that the parliament had been going on quite long enough.†   (source)
  • By the crisp, sunny afternoon of October 26, as George III proceeded on his way to the opening of Parliament, his popularity had never seemed higher.†   (source)
  • In London, meanwhile, the fiery Irish-born statesman Edmund Burke, who had once been the American Revolution's strongest friend in Parliament, declared in a speech that the French were proving themselves the ablest architects of ruin who ever existed.†   (source)
  • We later learned that Mrs. Suzman had taken up our case in Parliament, and within a few weeks of her visit, Suitcase was transferred off the island.†   (source)
  • Lee was followed by Ralph Izard, who said he could attest from personal observation of such occasions at Parliament that members of the House of Commons stood because in the I louse of Lords there were no seats for them.†   (source)
  • He turned off both his mobiles and walked through the Galleria to Gustav Adolfs Torg, past the Parliament building, and into Gamla Stan.†   (source)
  • Further, he was pleased to inform the Parliament, he had received "friendly offers of foreign assistance."†   (source)
  • Rwanda is one of a number of poor countries--others include Costa Rica and Mozambique--that have at least one third female total representation in parliament.†   (source)
  • The constitution had been established by Parliament, and it was his job to see that it stayed intact.†   (source)
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