It is the curse of modern times, that we never can be sure of our Parliamentary seat; not when we have it in our pockets!
Amid these circumstances he was obliged to come upon the scene as a professional politician, his position as bishop compelling him to take part in parliamentary affairs at Stockholm.
In ten years' time, he had made only one mistake when, in 1652, overlooking Parliamentary zeal for orthodoxy, he printed the Racovian Catechism.
During the Civil War there seem to have been active negotiations going on between some of the Parliamentary leaders and the Bordeaux malcontents.
The French were among the first to copy English broad-mindedness in philosophy and politics; to admire Locke and Newton; and to practise parliamentary government.
The Council, among other orders concerning the diffusion of Parliamentary publications abroad, directs the Customs to "permit Mons.
Ignorant as they were, they tried by giving advice to the king, who mocked them, and money to his ministers, to subvert parliamentary government established at the price of six years of civil war and six years of dictatorship.
The parliamentarysuffrage for the German Reichstag is more representative than that for the British House of Commons.
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He alone can address the higher courts and the parliamentary committees; a solicitor must keep to office work and the courts of first instance.
In spite of vicissitudes and a not unattacked reputation, he was the chief parliamentary figure on the death of Depretis, and dominated Italian politics till 1896.
The parliamentary struggles have certainly been neither noble nor romantic.
You see, a parliamentary session is a sort of campaign in which every arm of warfare is needed.
Removed from the melee and participating no longer in the parliamentary struggles, he began to observe more coldly certain questions important in those times, and to temper more than one antipathy of past days.
See, on this subject, the English, French, and Austrian parliamentary documents of the year 1868, and especially the reports of the agents of Austria at Iassy and Bucharest.
I findparliamentary intrigues hollow and unworthy of any notice.
He carried out his ecclesiastical policy by parliamentary help.
The Tunnage and Poundage Act of 1641 pronounced definitely against the legality of any extra parliamentary customs and thus closed another of the constitutional problems of finance.
A new Ordinal issued with parliamentary approval in 1550 was significant of the change in sacramental doctrine, and the four minor orders disappeared.
Just as the old direct taxes were first supplemented by, and then absorbed in, the general taxation of movables, so the customs, in the strict sense, were followed by the subsidies or parliamentary grants.
The ancient division, however, besides being maintained in general speech and usage, forms the basis on which the system of distribution of parliamentary representation now in force was constructed.
All the English counties, with the exception of Rutland, are divided into two or more constituencies, each returning one member, the number of English county parliamentary areas being 234.
The usual parliamentary proceeding was to vote so many "tenths and fifteenths" and so many subsidies, e.
The number of county areas for parliamentarypurposes in England and Wales is thus 253, and the total number of their representatives is the same.
In Wales there are 10 borough parliamentary areas, all of which, except Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea town division, consist of groups of several contributory boroughs.
Almost at the opening of the age of parliamentary taxation one of the older sources of revenue ceased.
In Wales eight smaller or less populous counties form each one parliamentary constituency, while the four larger are divided, the number of Welsh county parliamentary areas being 19.
These are practically the persons whose names appear in the parliamentaryregister or in the local government register as being entitled to vote at elections for members of parliament or county or parish councillors as the case may be.
Outside the county constituencies are the parliamentary boroughs.
I concurred with a great character at the national convention, in endeavouring to persuade our Roman Catholic brethren to take a decided part in favour of parliamentary reform.
There he was to make a motion on the question of parliamentary reform, introducing to the House his specific plan from the convention.
He was not without a natural desire, which he candidly avowed, to satisfy himself how far he could succeed as a parliamentary speaker, and how far his mind would stand the trial of political competition or the temptations of ambition.
The costume of a General of the Parliamentary Army (Lord Fairfax, General for the County of York) is shown in Fig.
Recent experience has made it perfectly clear that Parliamentary Government is being exposed to a strain for which it may prove unequal.
A more difficult problem it is impossible to conceive, because a Constitution of this kind runs counter to the whole tradition of Parliamentary sovereignty in this country and the colonies.
Thus, a wholeParliamentary day may be allotted to three clauses.
And lastly, and perhaps worst of all, it defeats the fundamental rule of our Parliamentary system--that the majority shall prevail.
Fitzwilliam was known to favour Parliamentary Reform and Catholic Emancipation, and the liveliest hopes and fears were entertained of a decisive change of system.
Big Bills are hustled through with the aid of every undesirable expedient known to parliamentary procedure, and little Bills in pathetic shoals are massacred at the end of each session.
The Imperial Parliament (I) The State Of Parliamentary Business.
Now this question of parliamentary reform was intimately related to the question of taxing the American colonies.
Pitt and the New Whigs, being advocates of parliamentary reform, came out flatly in support of the principle that there should be no taxation without representation.
He was opposed to parliamentary reform for much the same reason that the Old Whigs were opposed to it, because he felt that it threatened him with political ruin.
It will be a constitutional, democratic and parliamentary monarchy under the Karageorgevitch Dynasty, which has always shared the ideas and the feelings of the nation, placing liberty and the national will above all else.
There were first the already existing and parliamentary institutions which had become revolutionary in spirit and methods of action.
The first parliamentary leaders wished to use as the basis for carrying out both tasks the old institutions, the municipal and provincial councils, and the coöperative societies, at the same time taking steps gradually to democratize them.
The undersigned will take part in the parliamentary labor after having made this reserve.
So Pontefract came back to the Crown, the Parliamentary garrison were imprisoned in the magazine, and the third siege began.
I breathed more freely as we turned our backs upon the hideous memorial of parliamentary administration, and steamed away into a purer air.
The present enterprise is the creation of parliamentary faction.
In the caboose,' he repeated, screaming with enjoyment at the thought of it, and evidently wishing that all the parliamentary orators on the globe were in the same place.
One feels that there will be something to retire upon when parliamentary oratory has finished its work of disintegration.
Horne Tooke's Diversions of Purley were written to beguile his imprisonment occasioned by a libel; and his trial resulted in making parliamentary reports legal.
Is a dull parliamentary speech, or an animated debate at the racecourse, most vivid with the spirit of English life?
Westminster revives the tragic memories of the State trials, and seems yet to echo the Oriental rhetoric that made the trial of Hastings a Parliamentary romance.
It may be presumed the herald-painter did not stand in the same relationship to the Parliamentary general.
And it is therefore necessary that you know how England happened to develop a parliamentary form of government while the rest of the European continent was still ruled by absolute monarchs.
He kept his parliamentarystyle with the rest,--the diffuse rhetoric, the constant repetitions, the lengthy preparation for ideas not worth the prelude.
He served in the Parliamentary army, and proved troublesome to Cromwell, who imprisoned him.
In the biography of her husband she relates faithfully his services to Charles the First at the head of an army which he himself had raised; his final defeat near York by the Parliamentary forces; and his escape to the continent in 1644.
Its plot was furnished by the stirring events which took place when the Society of United Irishmen were fighting for parliamentary reforms.
As a lawyer he was an impressive pleader and in parliamentary debate able and ingenious.
As to parliamentary supremacy, Otis was much more emphatic than Hutchinson.
It is still a principle of parliamentary representation that from the moment a member is thus chosen to sit in parliament, he is the representative of the whole empire, and not of his particular constituency.
So long as America remained dependent, parliamentary supremacy was necessary.
Parliamentary supremacy in the British empire is, indeed kept well in the background at the present moment, but let any great emergency arise, such as some peril to the mother country.
This act also granted the Catholic clergy a full parliamentary title to their old ecclesiastical estates, and to tithes paid by members of their own religion, but no Protestant was obliged to pay tithes.
It lies on the Nith, opposite to Dumfries, with which it is connected by three bridges, being united with it for parliamentary purposes.
Pugin, erected by a parliamentary grant obtained in 1846.
The division since 1885 is into north, south, east and west parliamentary divisions, each returning one member.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parliamentary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
