Sentence examples for various parliaments from inspiring English sources

Might they just have been better off lobbying for change from outside their various parliaments?

But their various parliaments and consultative councils are, with few exceptions, pretty toothless.

In 2008 she traveled to Europe to give speeches and meet with human rights activists and members of various Parliaments.

At present we have audit after the event, but what would be the alternative mechanism to permanent secretaries' personal accountability to the various parliaments for seeking to prevent such abuse?

They already run both departments.Britain will discover that it has a constitutional court in the form of the judicial committee of the Privy Council, an obscure body that will be called upon to adjudicate the inevitable and possibly bitter tests of strength between the various parliaments and assemblies.

By modern convention, the sovereign could only act with the advice and counsel of ministers drawn from, or approved by, the King's various parliaments.

Mr. Patten said he would need to persuade the various European parliaments and the public to provide reconstruction money after a war most of them opposed.

Serious crimes—"felonies" in contemporary parlance were tried by the various city parliaments of the realm, which acted as courts and provided the accused with due-process safeguards stipulated by the law.

Another school of thought wants a European assembly chosen by the various national parliaments to get ahead with discussions within the framework of the present Congress; and those, headed by Paul Reynaud, that wants a European assembly chosen directly by the people and wants it right now.

A sejmik (, diminutive of sejm, occasionally translated as a dietine; ) was the name of various local parliaments throughout the history of Poland.

Asked yesterday by Jeremy Vine about various hung parliament scenarios, he complained such talk "does my head in".