Sentence examples for parliament established from inspiring English sources

In January 1606 Parliament established November 5 as a day of public thanksgiving.

Lithuania's parliament established in 2010 that the CIA did operate a site close to Vilnius.

Parliament established the council in 1957 to administer, without political interference, the distribution of all federal funds for cultural enterprises.

In 1908 Parliament established the system that permitted magistrates to prescribe "Borstal detention" as a separate sentence for young offenders.

In 1696 Parliament established the Board of Trade largely with the intention of maintaining even tighter control of colonial trade.

In 1879 Parliament established a national Thanksgiving Day on November 6; the date has varied over the years.

Mentioning these three episodes -- the hijacking and the attacks on the Red Fort and the Kashmir assembly -- Mr. Advani said the attack on Parliament "establishes that terrorism in India is the handiwork of Pakistan-based terrorist outfits known to derive their support and sustenance from Pak I.S.I".

Mr. Akef led the Brotherhood during the twilight of the Mubarak government, from 2004 until 2010, a period in which the group ran for and won one-fifth of the seats in the lower house of the Egyptian Parliament, establishing itself as the country's most significant political opposition.

It is not until March 2010 (Ley Orgánica 2/2010de 3 de marzo) that a new law was passed in the Parliament establishing that during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy women are free to interrupt a pregnancy.

When the Greek people went to the polls earlier this month, the Syriza coalition won nearly 17% of the vote, confounding expectations and making Mr Tsipras the leader of the second-largest party in the Greek parliament, establishing him as a key political player.

Owing to Henry Drummond's concerns in 1852 that the LNC was a front for land speculation, the sale of LNC-owned land for building had been expressly forbidden by the Act of Parliament establishing the LNC, and consequently much of the land not in use for burials remained undeveloped, aside from the land sold in the 1850s and 1860s, and the areas sold by Cyril Tubbs.