Sentence examples for riksdag in from inspiring English sources

He returned to the Riksdag in 1991.

The confirmation of royal autocracy by the Riksdag in December 1680 subordinated the council's powers, fulfilling Gyllenstierna's goals in the same year as his death.

Gustav succeeded in 1771 to a Swedish throne that had been weak since it was subordinated to the Riksdag in 1720.

All bills are referred to committees; the results of their deliberations are reported in printed form to the Riksdag in plenary session.

He was elected to the third (middle-class) chamber of the Riksdag in 1859, and, as a leader in that body, he continued to press for reform, which culminated in the establishment of a modern two-chamber parliament (still called the Riksdag) in 1865.

As chancellor, Oxenstierna was one of the five regents who were to govern Sweden during Christina's minority; he also drew up (probably with Gustav's approval) the regeringsform ("form of government") accepted by the Riksdag in 1634.

In the Riksdag as in the waters off Stockholm, Swedes are finding their cold war memories seem a bit less stale.

First elected to the Riksdag (parliament) in 1958, he lost his seat in 1964 but regained it in 1967.

Charles XI had stipulated a regency, but the regents proved anxious to obtain the new king's concurrence in all decisions, and the Riksdag called in November 1697 declared him of age.

A historian of early modern Sweden and a professor at the University of Uppsala (1903 20), Edén was elected to the Riksdag (parliament) in 1908 and quickly rose to prominence in the Liberal coalition party of Karl Staaff.

When the Danes resisted, repelling an attack on Copenhagen in February 1659, a Riksdag was called in Gothenburg in 1660 to deal with the military situation.