Sentence examples for Parliament from high-quality English sources.

• Parliament had forged a sword.

• Parliament writes and passes laws.

• Parliament has voted against having a second referendum.

• IN MOST democratic countries, governments are made and unmade in parliament.

• The first elections to the Scottish Parliament were held in May 1999.

• In 1629 he dissolved Parliament, determined to rule by himself alone.

• The powers of the Scottish Parliament have been devolved from the UK Parliament.

• Visitor experiences in Parliament will depend heavily on whether Parliament is sitting.

Use Parliament in a sentence.

• Giles, in Parliament Square, is Parliament House, built by the town council between 1632 and 1639.

• “Cummings is in contempt of parliament and parliament needs to express its dissatisfaction,” said Lucas.

• In practice, however, the monarch and Parliament rarely come together, except at the openings of Parliament sessions.

• The state’s parliament building is the first completely new parliament building to be built in the history of the German Federal Republic.

• Wide shots of the chambers of the Scottish Parliament, Senedd - the Welsh Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly are allowed, but wide shots of Westminster are not.

• In September 2019 Boris Johnson attempted to prorogue Parliament for five weeks, but the Supreme Court later ruled the prorogation unlawful and MPs returned to Parliament.

• Long Parliament, the English Parliament summoned in November 1640 by King Charles I; it has been so named to distinguish it from the Short Parliament of April–May 1640.

• IN THE 17TH CENTURY parliaments gloried in names such as the Blessed Parliament, the Addled Parliament, the Happy Parliament and the Useless Parliament.

Parliament sentence examples

• In 1653 he came back from the wars, dismissed Parliament, and assembled a Parliament of his own (called Barebone’s Parliament after one of its members, Praisegod Barebone).

• The EC attends sessions of Parliament and is responsible for formulating regulations governing political parties at the European Parliament level and providing for public funding for the party campaigns for Parliament.

• Members of Parliament were gathered outside the capital and bribed to vote out the Parliament president, who had been viewed as unfriendly to Russian interests, according to a member of Parliament and to a record of the payments signed by lawmakers.

• Parliament could be at particular risk from becoming a hotbed of coronavirus transmission because the UK's 650 members of Parliament routinely travel across the country to and from their constituencies, as well as congregating in Parliament and interacting in close proximity.