I spoke, in the first of these papers, of the Parliaments of the Established and Free Churches, and how they can hear each other singing psalms across the street.
Declaration on the Conference of the Parliaments 15.
To this end, the exchange of information between the national Parliaments and the European Parliament should be stepped up.
The President of the European Council and the President of the Commission will report to each session of the Conference of the Parliaments on the state of the Union.
In this context, the governments of the Member States will ensure, inter alia, that national Parliaments receive Commission proposals for legislation in good time for information or possible examination.
Declaration on the role of national Parliamentsin the European Union 14.
For it has been directly witnessed in certain foreign countries that following on the establishment of parliaments those bodies actually distressed and confused the people and their well-meant reforms produced maleficent results.
It is unquestionable that the object in establishing parliaments is to bring about justice and righteousness, but everything hinges on the efforts of the elected representatives.
Parliaments have been sometimes the critics of these works, and have found erroneous propositions and contradictions in them.
The orators in the parliamentsof England, the diets of Poland, the states of Sweden, the pregadi of Venice, etc.
A humourist of our own day has laughed at Parliaments as "talking shops," and the laugh has been echoed by some who have taken humour for argument.
The governors' messages to the Colonial Parliaments are travesties of those which custom in England leads us to call "the Queen's.
They believe that the process of election would not be more purified by female emancipation than would the character of the Parliaments elected.
This, which was meant for a temporary measure, has never been repealed, and is still the law under which Parliaments are held.
D'Ewes's journals of her parliaments contain the earliest reports of parliamentary debates.
The first volume of the commons' journals comprises the debates from the accession of James the first, to the cessation of parliaments under Charles the first.
Not a few Whigs applauded him for asserting the authority of Parliaments and the principles of the Revolution, in opposition to a doctrine which seemed to have too much affinity with the servile theory of indefeasible hereditary right.
He succeeded in obtaining the consent of the Parliaments of both kingdoms to the Union; but that reconciliation of races and sects, without which the Union could exist only in name, was not accomplished.
In long Parliamentsthe representative character is in some measure effaced.
At such a time it is that we are called upon to shut the door of this House against the last great judicial functionary to whom the unwise legislation of former parliaments has left it open.
According to the constitution, the duty of making provision for the discharge of those functions devolved on the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland.
Parliaments were then sometimes of eighteen or twenty years' duration.
The objections to long Parliaments are perfectly obvious.
That Parliament, you tell us, will be much more democratically inclined than the Parliaments of past times.
Only observe this, that, whatever may be the legal term, it ought to be a year longer than that for which Parliaments ought ordinarily to sit.
Those gentlemen who invited me to appear as a candidate before you were doubtless acquainted with the part which I took in public affairs during the three first Parliaments of the late King.
The contrast with the suspicious and grudging attitude of the Plantagenet and Lancastrian parliaments is significant of the change in national sentiment.
Berkshire in all Mary's parliaments except that of April 1554, but received no higher political office than the lucrative mastership of the court of wards.
A misrepresentation of the proceedings of the Commission of the Generall Assembly by the Parliaments Letter of May 11.
The Provincial Parliamentsfollowed the Parliament of Paris.
For nearly half a century a member of the House of Commons, and for six parliaments during that period one of the two representatives for Yorkshire.
Parliaments afterwards in the reign of William III.
But our Parliaments were sterner: they felt bound to prove the greater purity of the lay jurisdiction.
They were employed, by the Parliamentsthrough all that century.
Lancre wrote his book mainly to show how much the justice of French Parliaments and laymen excelled the justice of the priests.
But a more reasonable cause of discontent arose from the fact that, while parliaments were conceded to Hungary and Bohemia, the Constitution which had been promised in March to the Austrian Empire was as yet unrealized.
The first two Parliaments of his reign Charles dissolved speedily, because instead of voting supplies they persisted in investigating public grievances.
Thus, in the council of elders around the village patriarch, political historians trace the beginnings of the senates of Greece and Rome and the national parliaments of later times.
On the other hand the new regimes have increased the international power of the Church; Catholic members are numerous in the parliaments of the republics and the constitutional monarchies.
Pascal devotes them to public contempt, parliaments condemn their books to be burnt, universities denounce their system of morals and their teaching as poisonous.
The policy Escaped him, of first striking Parliaments To earth, then setting them upon their feet And giving them a sword: but this is idle.
Wentworth, horrified at the way in which a war with Scotland has been precipitated, carries his point, that Parliaments should be called in Ireland and England.
You can not but conclude, without the possibility of a doubt, that long parliaments are the foundation of the undue influence of the crown.
While parliaments are septennial, the purchase of the sitting member or of the petitioner, makes but the difference of a day.
A crowded meeting was held at Westminster on April 5 and was addressed by Fox who, with vehement eloquence, recommended annualparliaments and an addition of 100 county members as a means of freeing parliament from the influence of the crown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parliaments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
