Sentence examples for native parliament from inspiring English sources

The viceroy was often a Sardinian, the native parliament had three branches, and international politics separated Sardinia from Italian affairs.

Disillusioned, however, by the British government's failure to relieve the Great Irish Famine of the late 1840s, he became convinced that a native parliament was required for Irish land reform and other needs.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, bass guitarist Bootsy Collins, a Cincinnati native of Parliament-Funkadelic fame, was also on hand to root for the once and future champion from Cincinnati.

Maybe reporting your native land, its parliaments, its cities, means renewing those roots.

Leyla Zana, a veteran politician who is standing as an independent in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, served almost 10 years after making a speech in her native Kurdish in the parliament chamber.

All major British parties supported them, although some members of Parliament felt that native rights were inadequately protected.

Such a risk was his resignation in 1908 from the civil service to stand as the Liberal candidate for Parliament for his native county, North Waterloo, a Conservative stronghold.

His stirring defense of the native peoples before the Spanish Parliament in Barcelona in December 1519 persuaded King Charles I (the emperor Charles V), who was in attendance, to accept Las Casas's project of founding "towns of free Indians"—i.e., communities of both Spaniards and Indians who would jointly create a new civilization in America.

ISTANBUL — A prominent Kurdish lawmaker gave a speech in his native Kurdish in Turkey's Parliament on Tuesday, breaking taboos and also the law in Turkey, a country that has long repressed its Kurdish minority for fear it would try to secede.

There had been deep cuts in English teaching provision for non-native speakers in the last parliament, she added.

He served as an aide to a member of parliament originally from his native city of Samara, Mikhail Degtyaryov.