All 28 Uses
parliament
in
1776, by McCullough
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- ON THE AFTERNOON Of Thursday, October 26, 1775, His Royal Majesty George III, King of England, rode in royal splendor from St. James's Palace to the Palace of Westminster, there to address the opening of Parliament on the increasingly distressing issue of war in America.†
p. 3.3parliament = legislative assembly that passes laws (existing in some countries)
- 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.†
p. 3.7 *
- 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.†
p. 6.2
- But in striking contrast, several of the most powerful speakers in Parliament, like the flamboyant Lord Mayor of London, John Wilkes, and the leading Whig intellectual, Edmund Burke, had voiced ardent support for and admiration of the Americans.†
p. 6.8
- Yet for all that, no one in either house, Tory or Whig, denied the supremacy of Parliament in determining what was best for America.†
p. 6.9
- Howe, a member of Parliament and a Whig, had earlier told his Nottingham constituents that if it came to war in America and he were offered a command, he would decline.†
p. 7.1
- By the time the first news of Lexington and Concord arrived, it was the end of May and Parliament had begun its long summer holiday, its members departing London for their country estates.†
p. 7.7
- 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.†
p. 9.1
- To much of the press and the opposition in Parliament, the American war and its handling could not have been more misguided.†
p. 9.6
- 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.†
p. 10.4
- Like the Parliament, he had acted thus far in a spirit of moderation, he said, and he was "anxious to prevent, if it had been possible, the effusion of the blood of my subjects, and the calamities which are inseparable from a state of war."†
p. 11.3
- Fur ther, he was pleased to inform the Parliament, he had received "friendly offers of foreign assistance."†
p. 12.1
- His Majesty's appearance before Parliament had lasted just twenty minutes, after which, as reported, he returned to St. James's Palace "as peaceably as he went."†
p. 12.5
- Admitting to his ignorance of the real state of things in America—and inferring that this was no uncommon handicap in Parliament—he boldly proposed the repeal of every act concerning America since the incendiary Stamp Act of 1765.†
p. 13.6
- It was Parliament as theater, and gripping, even if the outcome, like much of theater, was understood all along.†
p. 14.1
- At about the time the chandeliers were being lighted in the House, John Wilkes, Lord Mayor of London, champion of the people and the homeliest man in Parliament, stood to be heard, and to let there be no doubt that he was John Wilkes.†
p. 14.9
- For all the delays and frustrations, however severe the tests of patience he was to suffer in his dealings with them and the system, he never forgot that Congress held the ultimate power, that he, the commander-in-chief, was the servant of some fifty-six delegates who, in far-off Philadelphia, unlike Parliament, met in secrecy.†
p. 50.6
- On New Year's Day, Monday, January 1, 1776, the first copies of the speech delivered by King George III at the opening of Parliament back in October were sent across the lines from Boston.†
p. 67.9
- 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.†
p. 71.7
- Like William, he was a member of Parliament and much admired by the King.†
p. 76.2
- In Parliament he rarely spoke.†
p. 76.4
- It would be six weeks before the news reached London, and on May 6, a storm of criticism and recrimination erupted in Parliament, led by the same ardent Whigs whose real power was no more than it had ever been.†
p. 109.4
- In testimony before Parliament, General Cornwallis would refuse to say that the Brooklyn lines could have been taken by an immediate attack, and said that at the time he never heard anyone claim they could have been.†
p. 195.3
- Edmund Burke, Charles Fox, and others in Parliament opposed to the war were as downcast as prominent Tories were jubilant.†
p. 195.9
- It offered all who, within sixty days, would come forth and take an oath of allegiance to the King—and pledge their "peaceable obedience" —a "free and general pardon," and that they would reap the benefit of his Majesty's paternal goodness, in the preservation of their property, the restoration of their commerce, and the security of their most valuable rights, under the just and most moderate authority of the crown and Parliament of Britain.†
p. 258.5
- WITH THE NEW YEAR, news arrived from England that on October 31 in London, His Majesty King George III had once again ridden in splendor from St. James's Palace to Westminster to address the opening of Parliament on the still-distressing war in America.†
p. 292.2
- The same Whig leaders in Parliament spoke out as they had before, ardently denouncing the "wicked war."†
p. 292.5
- 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.†
p. 292.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(parliament with a lowercase "p") a legislative assembly in certain countries (that can pass laws)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, you need to look at the context to determine the parliament to which Parliament is referring. For example, it could be the British Parliament, the European Union Parliament, the French Parliament, etc.