As a punishment for his obstinacy, Murray was committed to Newgate, and remained there until the prorogation of Parliament.
October and November were the months fixed for the meeting of Parliament in Hanoverian times, and the prorogation usually took place in April.
But in the Commissions of Prorogation of the Grand Feast, 25th February, 19 Car.
AT the Feast of St. George, celebrated byProrogation at White-hall, for the Year 1636.
We propose that, during the prorogation at least, Members of Parliament, should, like beavers, build their own Houses.
But we have not yet mentioned the great crowning work of Ministers--the Queen's speech on the Prorogation of the Parliament last week.
Shortly after the prorogation came a dissolution and another general election.
For this prorogation there was not the slightest legitimate ground, as a great deal of the public business was necessarily left unfinished.
There remains for consideration the prorogation of Parliament on the 13th of August.
A numerously signed memorial was presented to His Excellency praying that there might be no prorogation of Parliament until the charges against the existing Government had been subjected to investigation.
The Prorogation will be on Saturday, notwithstanding a blunder about the Commission, by which we lose to-day in the House of Commons.
Canning has sent out his cards for a Cabinet dinner on the 23rd, so I suppose he does not contemplate the prorogation till about that time.
He said, in hisprorogation speech, that he did not think the session would prove of much advantage to the public.
About the time of the prorogation of the session, His Grace, the Duke of Richmond, came to Upper Canada, on a tour of inspection.
Prorogation might succeed prorogation, and dissolution, but there would be a revolution in the country sooner than a change in the feelings of its inhabitants with regard to Chief Justice Sewell.
A prorogation was anticipated, when the Usher of the Black Rod commanded, by order of His Excellency, their presence at the Bar of the Upper House, but the possibility of a dissolution of Parliament never occurred to any one.
The sudden prorogation was resorted to because the Assembly had, on the 3rd of April, resolved itself into a committee of the whole to take into consideration the state of the province.
Lord Dalhousie, who had paid a visit to Nova Scotia, immediately after the prorogation of the parliament of Lower Canada, returned to Quebec in August.
Indeed the administrator of the government in his prorogation speech remonstrated with the Assembly for the non-completion of the necessary business.
In these years it was a frequent practice with him, before each prorogation of parliament, to entertain the House with a "review of the session," in which he mercilessly attacked the Whig government.
The representatives of the kings of England and France were equally unfortunate in their claim for a prorogation of the decision.
Fresh and larger subsidies from France enabled him to continue this prorogation for seven months.
To do this the first step was fully to reconcile the king and the Parliament, which met again in February 1677 after a prorogation of fifteen months.
All Charles could do was to gain time by a sudden prorogation of the Parliament and by its dissolution at the end of May.
It was in fact only by an early prorogation which was prolonged throughout the year that the ministers were saved from impeachment.
The Duke of York, since the prorogation of Parliament on the 4th of November last, had married Maria D'Este, a Catholic princess, sister of the Duke of Modena.
The prorogation of Parliament was followed by the trial of three Whig leaders of eminence.
Grey, Earl of Stamford, had been on the eve of being tried by the Peers on a similar charge of concern in the Rye House Plot, but the prorogation defeated that, and he was soon after liberated.
Our prorogation is again postponed--postponed to the Greek calends, and here we are at the twenty-eighth of July.
Having in this way made a majority of the Burgesses subservient to his will, Berkeley used his right of prorogation to retain them indefinitely.
The power of prorogation made it possible for a Governor, when he had a House of Burgesses to his liking, to continue them indefinitely.
If the time remaining seems short, it should be prorogued as long as may be necessary and for such prorogation we notify," etc.
Strange as it seemed to him, she did not, but, on the contrary, always assumed that the prorogation of parliament would alone bring them together again.
The prorogation had relieved the King from the gentle remonstrances of the Houses: but he had still to listen to remonstrances, similar in effect, though uttered in a tone even more cautious and subdued.
Soon after the prorogation this reckless faction was strengthened by an important reinforcement.
After the prorogation of the Oxford Parliament he had commonly been counsel for the most noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition.
The effect of theprorogation was to put an end to a legal proceeding of the highest importance.
From the day of the prorogation the opposition to his designs had been growing stronger and stronger.
After the prorogation of the Assembly, Lord Howard wrote home his complaints against the stubborn Burgesses.
From the time of our entrance into affairs until the prorogation of the Assembly, which took place on the 13th of August, we did not cease to gain ground with the majority, in spite of their leaders.
We know how easily petitions are got up, and this case was no exception; but Sir Francis was kept in well-merited incarceration, until the Prorogation of Parliament on the 21st of June, which set him free.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prorogation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: continuation; prolongation; protraction
