parliament
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Recent polls suggest Netanyahu’s governing bloc could fall short of the 61 seats needed to command a majority in Israel’s 120-member parliament.
From Salon โ Oct. 18, 2026
Lecornu is under pressure to get a cost-cutting budget through parliament.
From Barron's โ Oct. 16, 2026
He said the parliament was "strengthened in its capacity to scrutinise" as a result of the change.
From BBC โ Oct. 15, 2026
The main demonstration outside parliament by thousands of university students and staff, trade unionists and opposition activists remained peaceful.
From Barron's โ Oct. 15, 2026
He was encouraged to write a letter to the Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, and he composed a five-hundred-word plea, extracts of which follow:
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Similar schemes are held for the devolved Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish parliaments.
From BBC โ Sep. 17, 2026
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
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 forums were parliaments of the people, not unlike the meetings of chiefs at the Great Place that I witnessed as a boy.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The American Revolution - Introductory
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"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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