Sentence examples for example of parliament from inspiring English sources

He pointed to mandatory sentencing laws as an example of parliament seeking to bind the hands of the judiciary and thereby prevent proper consideration of individual cases.

Sedley then goes beyond tabloid tittle-tattle to point to other examples of parliament bringing the law into contempt.

"Take, for example, members of parliament," MacDonald says.

For example, members of Parliament must publish proposals online and allow for discussion during a two-month period.

Participants cited the example of Youth Parliaments such as those in Togo and Mexico, and had a frank discussion about the difficulties of ensuring that these types of initiatives make meaningful contributions to the official bodies and processes of government.

The Irish Parliament did not follow the example of the English Parliament; it declared that James remained King and passed a massive bill of attainder against those who had rebelled against him.

Apart from the sad reality of the British parliament currently being in meltdown and therefore hardly an example of a "proper" parliament, this is a deeply misleading statement.

A lot of that is harnessing new technology but there is also the example of the Scottish parliament's petitions committee, whereby issues from the public can be taken before the parliament.

Last week, for example, a Green member of parliament, Noel Mamère, accused President Jacques Chirac of padding electoral rolls when he was mayor of Paris (and was promptly reprimanded for abusing parliamentary privilege).

As an example, when a member of parliament saluted Van Rompuy's recent success with some Flemish verse, the Prime Minister completed the poem by memory.

Each of these examples of the willingness of parliament to pass laws that breach democratic freedoms, taken individually, might be justified on the grounds of necessity and proportionality.