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  • But instead of the usual sounds that brought the city to life, it was woken that morning by gunshots erupting around the State House and the House of Parliament.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The coalition of Diamond, Club, and Spade dynasties that made up Parliament was falling apart.†   (source)
  • Answer me this, Sam—do you really think you know better than the King and those learned men in Parliament?†   (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)
  • A parliament of regional leaders in Congo elected a nationalist named Patrice Lumumba as prime minister.†   (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)
  • It's just that I seem to remember a Mr Stevens who was a member of parliament a year or two ago.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Now she has her eye on a seat in the national 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)
  • 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)
  • The needle-thin spires of Parliament peek up over the dusky outlines of chimneys.†   (source)
  • Even the location of the hospital was intimidating, close as it was to the great Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The Winter King is human and is still subject to the ruling of the Parliament.†   (source)
  • I could be a young, intellectual member of parliament, and be interviewed about lots of important issues on television.†   (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)
  • It had been a strange thing for us, to have our small village suddenly thrust into the high matters of king and parliament.†   (source)
  • That's because you get a good shot of the Houses of Parliament in the background.†   (source)
  • He was a young member of parliament, an obstructionist where government expenditures were concerned, but actually quite popular.†   (source)
  • What, and the queen just comes and gets them when she's going to Parliament?†   (source)
  • The antivirus won't be held up in a vial in our parliament for all the world to see.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Tell your king and Parliament what we have done.†   (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)
  • ROPER I've been offered a seat in the next Parliament.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She had seen it once outside the Swiss Parliament building.†   (source)
  • The meetings inspired the idea of Parliament.†   (source)
  • So they marched the army into parliament and reorganized it once again in Mobutu's favor.†   (source)
  • Now, the English Parliament—that wasn't my fault personally.†   (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)
  • I'm in London with some Parliament lackeys.†   (source)
  • If we dispose of Washington, Parliament will do whatever we ask.†   (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)
  • "Parliament is as far away as the moon," complained Inkstained.†   (source)
  • You cannot guarantee Parliament would rule treason.†   (source)
  • He made us pray for the King and Parliament just the same.†   (source)
  • And some members of Parliament would fuss like wet hens.†   (source)
  • Both the Parliament and the Congress give Madam Lockton rule over her slave.†   (source)
  • Right across the road is the Ontario Parliament Building, which is also old and dingy.†   (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)
  • For endless members of parliament debating things to a standstill.†   (source)
  • Like William, he was a member of Parliament and much admired by the King.†   (source)
  • Fifty members of the British Parliament had staged a march in London.†   (source)
  • Were not the likes of Edmund Burke speaking out in Parliament for American rights, it was said.†   (source)
  • Instead of leading people to their prayers, he had led them to war on behalf of the parliament.†   (source)
  • "The central seating is reserved for the human Parliament," Bert explained.†   (source)
  • A new parliament must be called within three years after the previous parliament session is ended.†   (source)
  • Her own job was to keep tabs on the government departments and Parliament on behalf of Millennium.†   (source)
  • It is like trying to take down Parliament with only a thimble of gunpowder.†   (source)
  • In the constitution, we said that women have to make up 30 percent of the parliament.†   (source)
  • "The claim," the Steward continued, "has been approved by the Parliament.†   (source)
  • But he recognized that the member of Parliament had reason enough for complaint.†   (source)
  • WITNESS: They have got no vote as far as Parliament is concerned.†   (source)
  • Parliament then made it the "Bill of Rights."†   (source)
  • The king of Great Britain has an absolute negative on the acts of the two houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • "The Parliament," said Bert, "called a council to debate the matter of succession.†   (source)
  • Another act of Parliament prohibited the reproduction of any statement made by a banned person.†   (source)
  • As they passed the Parliament building she broke the silence.†   (source)
  • She'd reported the matter to the head of her party, and Parliament's security detail was informed.†   (source)
  • NM: No African is a member of Parliament?†   (source)
  • The monarch appoints all judges; and he can petition the two Houses of Parliament to remove them.†   (source)
  • "Well, then," said Charles, "you ought to trust the Parliament.†   (source)
  • Both Parliament and the State legislatures can correct, by law, court decisions they object to.†   (source)
  • It's all but certain that he had something to do with the deception of the Clockwork Parliament.†   (source)
  • Do you mean to say that they built those imposters in the Parliament?†   (source)
  • Parliament's actions alarmed the voters.†   (source)
  • When they got to the part about the Parliament, the small mammal cut in and changed the subject.†   (source)
  • Instead, he has learned to gain a majority in one of the two houses of Parliament.†   (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 Parliament cannot accept the proposal.†   (source)
  • This may be where the idea that Parliament needs to approve treaties came from.†   (source)
  • The Parliament members were not human at all.†   (source)
  • Recently, eight-year terms for parliament have been established.†   (source)
  • The Irish parliament might have wanted to uphold citizens' rights.†   (source)
  • There is no king, and not even a real Parliament to give counsel.†   (source)
  • The British monarch can adjourn or even dissolve the Parliament.†   (source)
  • You should have built a better Parliament.†   (source)
  • Frequent parliament sessions were declared a fundamental right of the people.†   (source)
  • But he doesn't like to veto resolutions passed by the two houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • But the king controlled the subjects parliament could discuss.†   (source)
  • The earliest records say that parliaments were to sit every year, not elected every year.†   (source)
  • MORE The King in Parliament tells me that they are.†   (source)
  • Ever since the owls' parliament began she had been yawning terribly and now she had dropped off.†   (source)
  • RICH He said, "Parliament has not the competence."†   (source)
  • (MORE is still looking off) ROPER There's to be a new Act through Parliament, sir†   (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)
  • The indictment is grounded in an Act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the Law of God.†   (source)
  • Parliament has made our King Head of the Church.†   (source)
  • Have you written to Parliament?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Parliament Committee Chair, Chris Mullin, required all members of British Parliament who were Masons to declare their affiliation.†   (source)
  • Ethnicity Chinese East Indians Jews Syrians White and light Olive Light brown Dark brown Black Unknown Lawyers (percentage) 3.1, 7.1, 38.8 10.2 17.3 10.2 5.1 8.2 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • After lunch Briony walked with Fiona across the river past the Houses of Parliament and into St. James's Park.†   (source)
  • The last time I went to see Aimee, she was living in a slummy row house near Parliament Street, in Toronto.†   (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)
  • As they walked back toward Parliament Square Briony was light-headed and still weak in the knees from laughing so hard.†   (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)
  • General Kayani and General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the head of ISI, were called to testify in parliament, something that had never happened.†   (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)
  • The Masons in parliament were furious.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 says there ought to be some way of working it out with the King and Parliament without having to fight.†   (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 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)
  • 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)
  • The master's trip to London was moved up so that he could deliver news of the setbacks to the Parliament and King.†   (source)
  • He would carry messages to Parliament, conduct his own business, and likely return to New York by the summer.†   (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)
  • The room buzzes with talk of the hunt and Parliament, horses and estates, but their eyes never stray too far from us.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Order everything you can find from Parliament: budgets, public reports, interpellations, and the like.†   (source)
  • He reminded himself that Paolo Roberto had also made a bid for a political career as a Social Democrat candidate for parliament.†   (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 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)
  • I follow the curve around the Parliament Building with its form of a squatting Victorian dowager, darkish pink, skirts huffed out, stolid.†   (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)
  • Members of Parliament and stable boys.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Excerpt from the memorandum sent by the Co-operative Committee 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)
  • 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)
  • Eighty-one countries have set aside certain positions for women, typically a share of seats in parliament, to boost their political participation.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Further, he was pleased to inform the Parliament, he had received "friendly offers of foreign assistance."†   (source)
  • And in Parliament, Wilberforce bargained furiously to build a voting bloc to overcome the shipping and slavery lobby.†   (source)
  • Edklinth and Armansky had known each other for twelve years, ever since a female member of Parliament had received death threats.†   (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)
  • 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 Separate Representation of Voters Act eventually robbed the Coloureds of their representation in Parliament.†   (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)
  • The same Whig leaders in Parliament spoke out as they had before, ardently denouncing the "wicked war."†   (source)
  • By 2007 Rwanda surpassed Sweden to become the nation with the highest share of women members of any parliament in the world—48.8 percent of its seats in the lower house.†   (source)
  • But in the same letter he declared that "rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parliament and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, [I] would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean."†   (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)
  • Unlike judges and magistrates, who were automatically permitted access to prisons, members of Parliament had to request permission to visit a prison.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • As the crisis in America grew worse, and the opposition in Parliament more strident, he saw clearly that he must play the part of the patriot-king.†   (source)
  • With Boston full of red-coated British troops—sent in 1768 to keep order, as another round of taxes was imposed by Parliament, this time on paper, tea, paint, and glass—the atmosphere in the city turned incendiary.†   (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)
  • On February 9, seven days after Mr. de Klerk's speech opening Parliament, I was informed that I was again going to Tuynhuys.†   (source)
  • The constitution had been established by Parliament, and it was his job to see that it stayed intact.†   (source)
  • Edmund Burke, Charles Fox, and others in Parliament opposed to the war were as downcast as prominent Tories were jubilant.†   (source)
  • The enormous engine fabricated by the British Parliament for battering down all the rights and liberties of America, I mean the Stamp Act, has raised and spread through the whole continent a spirit that will be recorded to our honor, with all future generations.†   (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)
  • WITH THE RE PEA L of the Stamp Act by Parliament in the spring of 1766, and the easing of tensions that followed in the next two years, until the arrival of British troops at Boston, Adams put politics aside to con-centrate on earning a living.†   (source)
  • Press freedom has also been enshrined by Parliament and is based on the socially and democratically acceptable restrictions of society, that is, the social contract that makes up the framework of a civilized society.†   (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)
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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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