Sentence examples for standing parliament from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Soviet, the standing parliament, immediately rejected the draft and declared that the Congress of People's Deputies was the supreme lawmaking body and hence would decide on the new constitution.

When the Congress of People's Deputies elected the Supreme Soviet as a standing parliament, Yeltsin was not chosen, since the Congress had an overwhelmingly Communist majority.

Its subordinate body, the standing parliament known as the Supreme Soviet, was also slated for extinction, but a few legislators, pursuing the ideal of Western constitutionalism, argued successfully for a compromise.

No wonder he maintains such a cracking pace, up at dawn to stand on picket lines, even considering standing for parliament again when it looks as if Gordon Brown will call a snap election: after all, he thinks defiantly, he is only 82 and "Mr Gladstone was prime minister at 84".

Either that or standing for parliament.

In 2006, Rame surprised everyone by standing for parliament.

You know, while she's also standing for parliament.

He holds dual nationality, and Trinidadian law bans foreigners from standing for parliament.

The bill has now been kicked into a standing committee, parliament's closest thing to oblivion.

Peter Phillips, very much in favour of localism, is one of three architects standing for parliament.

It was championed by the former Tory council leader Mike Freer, who is now standing for parliament.