parliament
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Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said that the government needs to pass 44 resolutions by Nov. 1 and that parliament must pass 43 laws in order to unlock some funding.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Sep. 10, 2026
The former salesman needs to find three additional votes to secure a stable majority in the state parliament and form a government.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Sep. 8, 2026
At the edge of the crowd, I ran into Redi Muci, a member of the Albanian parliament for the left-wing party Lëvizja Bashkë, which translates as the “Together Movement,” and the party’s leader, Arlind Qori.
From Slate โ Sep. 8, 2026
Dozens of young people congregated at Nepal's burnt-out parliament building on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the former government.
From Barron's โ Sep. 8, 2026
Some aspects of Islamic law are observed in Iran's legal system, but today the country mostly operates under civil law, ratified by the parliament.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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In 1780, remarkably, Richmond proposed annual parliaments and universal male suffrage, 138 years before the latter would be achieved.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Jun. 12, 2026
Popes rarely address parliaments, trying to avoid overt political interventions.
From Barron's โ Jun. 8, 2026
McConnell, who was first minister from 2001 until 2007, told BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast he "would like to see the two parliaments coming together" to investigate the embezzlement.
From BBC โ Jun. 1, 2026
The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”
From Slate โ May 26, 2026
The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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