Sentence examples for A hemicycle from inspiring English sources

The debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament has seating arranged in a hemicycle, which reflects the desire to encourage consensus amongst elected members.

Members are arranged in a hemicycle according to their political groups (in the Common Assembly, prior to 1958, members sat alphabetically ) who are ordered mainly by left to right, but some smaller groups are placed towards the outer ring of the Parliament.

The five windows of the choir hemicycle (a semicircular arrangement) relate in various ways to the Virgin Mary.

There are plenty of people who mock the legitimacy of the European Parliament, and plenty more who can think of better ways to pass a morning than tuning in to a session in the hemicycle.

A transgressive and regressive hemicycle can be observed within each genetic unit.

The hemicycle design is a compromise between the different Parliamentary systems.

Goupil also had a hand in the distribution of Paul Delaroche's "Hemicycle des Beaux-Arts" (1841), an elaborate group portrait of artists from antiquity through the 17th century.

In France the anti-EU National Front won the election and its leader Marine Le Pen told MEPs on Wednesday that "a new wind is blowing in this hemicycle [debating chamber]".

Having been posted outside the entrance to the hemicycle, members can sign the declaration and if a majority do so it is forwarded to the President and announced to the plenary before being forwarded to the other institutions and formally noted in the minutes.

A few hours before our spat, Romano Prodi had unveiled his new blueprint for the future of Europe in the cavernous "hemicycle" of the European parliament.

A massive 1 billion EUR lobbying campaign by groups representing the food industry saw the bill die on the floor of the hemicycle in the European Parliament.