parliament

in a sentence

Let us hold a parliament of owls.  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, 1953

The forums were parliaments of the people, not unlike the meetings of chiefs at the Great Place that I witnessed as a boy.†  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

We have been afraid to think......Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write......Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments ....that many of our rights are inherent and essential, agreed on as maxims and established as preliminaries, even before Parliament existed......Let us read and recollect and impress upon our souls the views and ends of our more immediate forefathers, in exchanging their native country for a dreary, inhospitable wilderness......Recollect their amazing fortitude, their bitter sufferings—the hunger, the nakedness, the cold, which they patiently endured—the severe labors of clearing their grounds, building their houses, raising†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

They were moved to Kashmir House in Islamabad, a hostel for members of parliament.†  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

The earliest records say that parliaments were to sit every year, not elected every year.†  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

When would he make his bid for Parliament?†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

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) Tony Blair, First Address to Irish Parliament From a British PM, 1995

It is adjacent to Parliament and Big Ben.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

So you see, the whole of this nineteenth 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 fell upon the old world as the personified retribution for its misdeeds.†  (source) Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958

This was a few days after Laila heard that Ahmad Shah Massoud had gone to France and spoken to the European Parliament.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

Take me wherever there are parliaments and diets and congresses and chambers of statesmen.†  (source) Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun, 1939

Hanna lit a Parliament and swiveled the Sirius radio dial until she found a retro rap station playing "Baby Got Back."†  (source) Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars, 2006

There are many who would hold an inquest in the House of Commons on the conduct of the Governments—and of Parliaments, for they are in it, too—during the years which led up to this catastrophe.†  (source) Winston Churchill, Their Finest Hour, 1940