Sentence examples for knowledge of parliament from inspiring English sources

Or is the British government, like the Americans in Laos, waging a secret war without the full knowledge of parliament and public?" The Observer located one of the insurgency's leaders, who told its reporter that the war had begun with an "explosion" in the country on 9 June 1965, triggered by what he described as poor local governance and "the oppression of the British".

But freed from the day to day pressures of an MP, he has used his first hand knowledge of parliament, status within the Liberal Democrats as a policy vice chairman and the leverage provided by the Lib Dem presence in the coalition to great effect.

In 2007, a leaked German government report revealed that the archive had since its inception employed as many as 79 former Stasi members, some of them without the knowledge of parliament, fuelling suspicions that incriminating files could have been destroyed or been tempered with.

Rising costs sprang from the need for a formal entrance and the need to accommodate parliamentary staff in light of better knowledge of how Parliament was working at its primary location on the Royal Mile, where it was clear there were staff overcrowding problems.

The newspaper had published his report on trucks owned by the Turkish Intelligence Agency that transported weapons to Syria via Turkey without knowledge of the Turkish parliament, a story for which Yağmur was honoured with the EU Investigative Journalism Award 2015.

Bermejo, who knew both de Schutter and De Kuijer well from sharing the same offices in Brussels, Geneva and Washington, claims his knowledge of the Dutch parliament was incredibly detailed and believes it will be difficult to replace him.

Rosencrantz tells him of the VKP and the Parliaments' knowledge of the dark powers of Leá Monde, and that the hidden powers deep within a person can be unleashed with the help of the Dark.

Despite a last-minute allegation that Busquin had misled the Parliament's research committee about his knowledge of the scandals, Prodi assured the Parliament that he had complete confidence in Busquin.

Though several members of Parliament criticized her level of knowledge or vision, most senior members thought she had performed adequately.

"No member of parliament or the Department of Health and Social Services, to our knowledge, knew about Savile's sexual abuse activities," but there were major consequences of their actions.

BRITAIN'S House of Lords defends its role as upper chamber of Parliament by pointing to the extraordinary breadth of knowledge within its ranks: these days a colourful mixture of political appointees, Anglican prelates and scions of ancient families.