When in 1646 Parliament ordered that Presbyterianism be established in England, he was nominated to serve as an elder in his local classis, or district ruling body.
During the English Civil War, Parliament ordered the dikes broken and the land flooded (1642) to stop a Royalist army advance.
On Monday, a senior member of the Afghan parliament ordered the international relations committee to summon NDS officials for a grilling over the intelligence-sharing deal.
Parliament ordered Mr. Cho's team to start an investigation four months ago after Kim Yong-chul, a former chief legal counsel at Samsung, became a whistle-blower.
The US was astonished when the European parliament ordered a halt to an American government programme to monitor international banking transactions for terrorist activity.
Parliament ordered his arrest, he was described as "a diabolical rebel", and some of his political books were publicly burned by the executioner at the Old Bailey.
Last month, the Supreme Court and the National Assembly in Parliament ordered a government agency charged with verifying the credibility of university degrees — usually for prospective employers — to check those claimed by all national and provincial Parliament members.
Parliament ordered inspections of psychiatric hospitals, and the chief of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry proposed fire safety "subbotniki," in which citizens devote their holidays to days of mass, Soviet-style volunteer work.
On February 1st, Egypt's president Abdelfattah al-Sisi, who rules by decree in the absence of parliament, ordered Mr Greste's deportation.Mr Greste, an Australian, had been in Egypt for less than three weeks when the authorities detained him and two colleagues on charges of spreading false news and aiding the Muslim Brotherhood.
