Sentence examples for less parliament from inspiring English sources

In today's debate in the House of Commons I intend to argue for more rather than less parliament, for strengthening parliament's ability to challenge the executive and play a role in the government's deployment powers.

In Egypt's quota-less parliament today, there are eight women out of 508 MPs – less than 2%, and down from the previous 12%.

Devolved assemblies were set up in Northern Ireland and Wales, while the Scots were given a more or less proper parliament.

One of the less predictable Parliament members on the Peace Now flight was Arieh Eldad of the National Union, a far-right opposition party.

They are so powerful, in fact, that they have more or less superseded parliament as the focal point of Thai politics.

Several analysts noted that while Israel's Jan . 22elections resulted in a less conservative Parliament than the previous one, the coalition Mr. Netanyahu assembled in mid-March tilts further to the right, particularly on the Palestinian question.

No less important, parliament should declare that no region can comprise more than four provinces, so allaying Sunnis' palpable fears of a Shia super-region that might leave them to rot in their much poorer provinces.

Their leading lights promise a "less political" parliament favouring "rationality"—that is, a firmer adherence to Mr Khamenei's wishes over the "tension-raising" of the previous lot.The election's other casualties are parliament, which has been emasculated, and the presidency.

In fact, petrol duty has gone up less in this parliament than it did in the last parliament and I don't mean just last government but last parliament [legislative period].

A referendum in 1996 gave the president more power and parliament less.

Women make parliament less exciting, because they talk about "small problems rather than big ideas and issues".