Sentence examples for Throne speech from inspiring English sources

Its legislative initiatives were outlined by the governor-general in a throne speech on October 16th.

Even members of Wilson's own party decried the maneuver as an arrogant throne speech.

Leaders of the separatist Bloc Québécois (49 seats) and the leftist New Democratic Party (30 seats) both said they will vote against the throne speech.

On October 16th his government set out a rather broader agenda in the throne speech at the start of the parliamentary year.

However, as the new session began on March 3rd, the throne speech outlining the legislative programme was notable for its dearth of new ideas.

The "throne speech", delivered to a new session of parliament on April 4th by the governor-general, was Mr Harper's big chance to set out a sweeping vision of Canada's future.

Mr Sezer was the only person just about acceptable to everybody: and so he stepped, largely unknown, up to the presidential throne.His speech at the opening of parliament last month, however, began to show where he stands.

The jubilee concert had a quarter-hour peak of 16.9 million viewers (65.4%) at its climax from 10.30pm, when the Queen and Prince Charles joined the performers on stage, with the heir to the throne delivering a speech in praise of his mother and hospital-bound father, Prince Philip.

The new Legislature was to-day [March 24] solemnly inaugurated by the Speech from the Throne.

Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II reading a speech from the throne at the state opening of Parliament, 1958.

There were some who objected to the President delivering the "Speech from the Throne" personally, as evidence of more encroachment.