parliament
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After the disputed election, Kabila and Tshisekedi entered a power-sharing arrangement that allowed Kabila's coalition to retain control of parliament even after Tshisekedi took office in January 2019.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
In the interim, Netanyahu would remain prime minister, but his supporters would form only a minority of parliament.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
Rezaei’s role as a key interlocutor could sideline other Iranian figures such as Araghchi or Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of parliament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Elected to parliament in 1988, he took over leadership of the right-wing Likud party in 1993.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Father said Lumumba’s party won thirty-five of a hundredy-some-odd seats in the new parliament, mainly because of his natural animal magnetism.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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However, it isn't thought his ideas would be as significant as the setting up of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and the Northern Ireland Assembly, nor the introduction of regional mayors in England.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Lumsden, who is unable to sit in both parliaments due to a Holyrood ban on so-called dual mandates, is to resign from Holyrood just six weeks after winning re-election as a North East MSP.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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 ● Jun. 12, 2026
Popes rarely address parliaments, trying to avoid overt political interventions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 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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