Sentence examples for devolved assemblies from inspiring English sources

These tensions relaxed somewhat during the late 20th century, when devolved assemblies were introduced in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

Meanwhile, Labour's slender majority in the House of Commons eroded with the defection of the Liberal and nationalist parties following the defeat of referenda in Wales and Scotland that would have created devolved assemblies.

During his first year in office, he organized referenda that created devolved assemblies in Scotland and Wales and developed a joint committee to coordinate constitutional and other policies with the opposition Liberal Democrats.

He pointed to support for expansion demonstrated on Monday in letters to May from 50 MPs and representatives from the major parties in the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolved assemblies, as well as from representatives of Britain's largest union, Unite.

If the Commons were to remain with its current electoral system, and if the devolved assemblies turned out not to be as powerful as is often assumed, then it might well make sense to increase the power of the Lords, adding veto and initiative powers to its current ability only to revise and delay.

And with that, sovereignty would return to the UK parliament and devolved assemblies.

Sinn Féin, its onetime political wing, now forms part of the power-sharing executive in the devolved Northern Ireland assembly at Stormont.

Attempts to legislate to allow gay marriage have been vetoed by the Democratic Unionist party and a majority of Ulster Unionists in the devolved Northern Ireland assembly at Stormont.

Earlier, in 2000, the Cornish Constitutional Convention launched a campaign which resulted in a petition signed by 50,000 people calling for a fully devolved Cornish assembly.

Local decisions were devolved to neighbourhood assemblies in which everyone could participate; other parts of Rojava insisted on strict gender parity, with every office having co-chairs, male and female, in Afrin, two-thirds of public offices are held by women.

If, however, something close to a fully federal system has emerged, with real power and legitimacy devolved to regional assemblies and mayors, and with a more proportional electoral system for the Commons, then a powerful upper house may come to seem not only unnecessary but dangerous, for it would risk gridlock.