Sentence examples for or parliaments from inspiring English sources

Now, you did have, in many of these countries, diets, or parliaments, or some representative bodies.

Aside from the Convention's president and vice-presidents, the voting members represented either the European Union's institutions or the Member State governments or parliaments.

The adage of France's two-round elections, be they for presidents or parliaments, is that the voters "choose in the first round and eliminate in the second".

This is not a decision that should be made by politicians or parliaments; it is a decision that has to be made by historians".

Shura councils or parliaments have been created by ruling families, but with the intention of solidifying the rulers' power and representing their interests.

And even that charter, as the passage of the Counter-Terrorism Act has most recently revealed, has never proved very effective at countering the will of princes or parliaments.

Don't put your hopes in the revolution or parliament.

No fire has burned the Majlis, or parliament, down.

The military wing of Hamas boasted that it had aimed at the Israeli Knesset, or Parliament.

The poll will decide who represents them in the country's 290-seat majlis, or parliament.

A fiasco in the Diet, or parliament, on June 2nd showed politics at worst.