Sentence examples for prorogue it from inspiring English sources

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It is difficult to fathom the argument from The Economist and elsewhere that this somehow renders Canada's Parliament, or its parliamentarians, powerless.Steven Fletcher Minister of state for democratic reform Ottawa* SIR – The last time Stephen Harper requested a prorogue it was granted and there was a legitimate reason for it.

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The assembly refused, and Bernard prorogued it in July.

The end of the Parliamentary session is known as prorogue, or prorogation, and it involves a few odd actions and Norman French being spoken in Westminster.

In 2008 Mr Harper persuaded the governor-general to take the unusual step of proroguing Parliament, when it looked certain that his minority government was about to fall.

Parliament is going to prorogue (go into recess at the end of the session) shortly, and it will not meet until the Queen's Speech on Wednesday 4 June.

It is the prerogative of the monarch to summon and prorogue Parliament.

On investigating the NFHS-2 data for the study behavior under consideration it was observed that the percentage use of contraception to prorogue the first pregnancy has increased by 3.5 percentage points from NFHS-2 survey to NFHS-3 survey (Fig.  2) and reached 7.9percentt from 4.4percentt for the women who ever have been married and aged 15 34 years at the survey times.

She allowed him to "prorogue"" or adjourn Parliament so he could desperately cobble together a budget not based on hate by late January, and maybe someone will adore it then.

Instead of asking it to form a new government or calling another election, Governor General Michaëlle Jean agreed to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's request to prorogue, or end, the session of Parliament, thereby delaying the possibility of a confidence motion, one Harper would likely have lost, until Parliament resumed sitting, which it did just this week.

When the opposition united once more to demand the release of paperwork on the subject, Harper refused … and then persuaded the governor general to prorogue parliament again.

The established Canadian practice to obtain the governor-general's approval to prorogue Parliament was followed in this case, which, incidentally, has not typically included a meeting.

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