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parliament
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parliament with a lowercase "p"

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    Let us hold a parliament of owls.  (source)
    parliament = legislative assembly
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    They were moved to Kashmir House in Islamabad, a hostel for members of parliament.†  (source)
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    The meetings inspired the idea of Parliament.†  (source)
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    These reports we will eventually hand over to a very influential friend in Parliament.†  (source)
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    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)
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    This one used to hang in the French parliament.†  (source)
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    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)
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    So they marched the army into parliament and reorganized it once again in Mobutu's favor.†  (source)
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    Take me wherever there are parliaments and diets and congresses and chambers of statesmen.†  (source)
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    It's just that I seem to remember a Mr Stevens who was a member of parliament a year or two ago.†  (source)
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    He was also quite liberal about naming names of those great men who had been or were now Masons: Voltaire, Lafayette, and Napoleon, Franklin and Washington, Mazzini and Garibaldi; and among the living, the king of England and a great many other men, members of governments and parliaments, in whose hands lay the affairs of Europe.†  (source)
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    Some of those men in Parliament agree with me, sir.†  (source)
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    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)
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Charlie Sloane says he's going to go into politics and be a member of Parliament, but Mrs. Lynde says he'll never succeed at that, because the Sloanes are all honest people, and it's only rascals that get on in politics nowadays.  (source)
Parliament = the parliament of Canada
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