Sentence examples for facing parliament from inspiring English sources

That would allow the prime minister to rush over every Wednesday that the house sits after facing parliament.

As dozens of police watched, protesters first painted, then hung a 20 metre banner over the side of the bridge facing parliament.

Although Mr Haw - who began his Iraq peace vigil in 2001 - has been allowed to stay, all but three metres of his posters facing parliament have been removed.

It is hard to think of a more important question facing parliament today, both in terms of public policy and of functioning democracy.

"No other party but the left could pass such measures," said Nikos Athanasiou, who has watched the crisis unfold from the kiosks he runs facing parliament in Syntagma square.

"Not only that," he says, "there's this patch of wartorn land, directly facing Parliament, as if to say, 'Was it just to win dusty scraps of earth like this that these great imperialist wars were fought?'" He has also sought to address "what it means to put up a heroic monument in an age in which we no longer quite believe in heroism in the same way as the Victorians".

So while Mr Wahid faced parliament this week to fend off efforts to impeach him, many onlookers were asking whether his removal would improve matters.

If Brown decided to face parliament, he might come under pressure, as Baldwin also did, to step down as party leader.

He said he had decided to face Parliament on the issue to prevent damage to Spain's image as its struggling economy showed some signs of improvement, like increased tourism.

The revelation about Amazon's latest tax bill comes Google's Vice President for Sales and Operations faced  Parliament for the second timeto answer accusations that he misled the PAC over his company's tax affairs.

Even if no French president has to face parliament regularly and engage in the kind of verbal jousting seen weekly in Britain's House of Commons, this kind of dispute is a tried and tested part of French debate.