Sentence examples for divided parliament from inspiring English sources

The plan needs to be approved by the nation's divided parliament to go into effect.

Legislation to overhaul the legal system and shorten the process has been blocked in Italy's deeply divided Parliament.

He was indicted in 2010 by a sharply divided Parliament, charged with violating the laws of ministerial responsibility.

Whether the self-avowedly ambitious centre-left leader will fare any better than his party colleague in a bitterly divided parliament is, for the moment, unclear.

It was the 11th postponement since the first attempt by the sharply divided Parliament to elect a new president in September.

There is no love lost between the two squabbling politicians, but they managed to work together to pass three constitutional amendments together in a fiercely divided parliament.

With nine days to polling day and amid fresh evidence of a tightening race, the Tory high command was forced to devote a party election broadcast to warning voters of the spectre of a weak and divided hung Parliament.

The low turnout was a blow to the embattled government of Giuliano Amato, which had hoped that a favorable vote would give it strong public backing for electoral reforms that previous center-left governments had not been able to pass in the badly divided Italian Parliament.

LONDON -- A sharply divided British Parliament on Thursday rejected the immediate use of force as a response to suspected chemical attacks in Syria, putting Washington on notice that it would be deprived of the assistance of its most trusted ally if it launches a strike on Damascus in the next few days.

In 1430 Parliament divided electoral constituencies to the House of Commons into counties and boroughs.

But the alternative model put to the people – with a head of state elected by parliament – divided the republican movement and failed to sell a risk-averse public.