parliament
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Champagne, who will present the budget to parliament, added that the goals include boosting domestic commerce within Canada and "diversifying our trade."
From Barron's โ Nov. 5, 2026
Neither the bloc of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his rival Gadi Eisenkot secured a majority in parliament.
From BBC โ Nov. 4, 2026
“The opportunity for students to go into parliament would create a sort of battle royal between them,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Nov. 1, 2026
In 1833, the UK parliament passed a law to abolish slavery in most of the British Empire.
From Barron's โ Oct. 31, 2026
In March, the German parliament endorsed the Enabling Act, granting Hitler unprecedented power to enact laws without parliamentary involvement.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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 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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