Sentence examples for foreign parliament from inspiring English sources

It's significant … that a foreign parliament has [alleged] that our parliament is not doing its job".

Capitol Hill tends to get its information on the region from Georgia, and, perhaps in recognition of this, Medvedev said, of Congress, "This is a foreign parliament.

But beginning this weekend, he will travel to the world's most complex and troubled region, meet with prime ministers, speak to a foreign parliament and, by his presence, remind the Bush administration to pay heed to its right flank as it seeks to make peace.

A new limited privilege will be given to newspapers when reporting the proceedings of foreign parliaments.

Many members of foreign parliaments have addressed the council; Mr. Helms was not the first legislator to do so.

However, what was once an internal matter for Spain to resolve has now taken on an international perspective, as foreign parliaments and even governments wonder why, despite our calls for dialogue, Madrid refuses to sit down and talk.

Mr. Scharpen and Mr. Farris noted that some foreign parliaments are significantly larger than the United States House of Representatives — the House of Commons in Britain and the Bundestag in Germany each have more than 600 seats with each member serving a much smaller population.

He explains how the Speaker keeps order in the House of Commons and looks at foreign parliaments that do not operate to the rules of Erskine May dating back to 1844.

Turkey accepts that many Armenians died in partisan fighting beginning in 1915, but denies that up to 1.5 million were killed and that this constituted an act of genocide, a term used by many Western historians and foreign parliaments.

To attract foreign investors, Parliament needs to approve a solid legal framework for commercial relations.

Last year, after a series of opaque agreements with foreign companies, parliament had ruled that no new production-sharing agreements were to be signed until a comprehensive regulatory regime had been established.