Sentence examples for parliament produced from inspiring English sources

IF THERE is one reason why a hung parliament produced Britain's first coalition government for 65 years, it is the dire state of the public finances.

However, meetings between the two leaders and a speech before parliament produced only vows of friendship and a shared impression that reform was a good idea in principle.

11 In late 2014, the science and technology committee of the UK parliament produced a report calling for routine communication of the benefits and risks of screening programmes.

General elections for the Burmese parliament produce a clear victory for the National League for Democracy (NLD) in the House of Representatives and the House of Nationalities (respectively the lower and upper chambers).

A paper on hung parliaments produced by the House of Commons library notes that "if no party commands a majority, the previous government might remain in position and there might be a period of negotiation whilst they try to build a coalition or else decide to try to govern with a minority of Members of Parliament".

The new constitution passed in January gives more powers to the prime minister and parliament, now produced by genuine elections, rather than the president.

Finally, he tried to engineer the election so that the parliament it produced would acquiesce in all of this.Criminal proceedings against Pakistan's two pre-eminent politicians, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, both former prime ministers, kept them out of the country.

Dugdale said a new Scottish Labour analysis, based on research by Scottish parliament statisticians produced before the OBR's latest forecasts, showed the global oil price would need to hit $200 a barrel for fiscal autonomy to be affordable because of the projected gap between tax revenues, public spending and debt levels.

In 2007, the Scottish Parliament election produced a knife-edge result.

"The Parliament has produced a charter for the multibillion-pound animal-research industry to carry on business as usual, with scant regard either for animal welfare or public opinion," says Michelle Thew, chief executive of the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments.

But electoral changes introduced in 1996 -- under which Israelis vote directly for prime minister as well as separately for Parliament -- have produced a fractured Parliament with a profusion of narrow-interest parties and the need for coalitions, which have proved unstable.