prorogue
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Lord Pannick previously acted for those who brought a case against Mr Johnson when he tried to prorogue Parliament in 2019.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2022
And she used withering language to describe the effect of the court’s ruling on the formal order to prorogue.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
Johnson announced on Aug. 28 that he had asked Queen Elizabeth to prorogue, or suspend, parliament for five weeks from last week until Oct.
From Reuters ● Sep. 16, 2019
Rudd revealed she had asked for the legal advice given to the government on its decision to prorogue parliament, but she never got it.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2019
Lord Dalhousie was satisfied that no benefit to the public could be expected from a continuance of the session, and had come to prorogue the parliament.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger
While the Liberal Party holds its internal contest, parliament is prorogued until March 24.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025
Canada's parliament has been prorogued - or suspended - until 24 March to allow time for the leadership race.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
Parliament was in session but was prorogued on Monday through a government notification uploaded on its website.
From Reuters ● Jul. 4, 2023
Parliament was formally suspended, or prorogued, on Thursday in a tradition-steeped ceremony involving ermine-draped members of the House of Lords and an official proclaiming “the queen wills it” in Norman French.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
Governor Daly prorogued the house in a graceful speech.
From History of Prince Edward Island by Duncan Campbell
The process, known as proroguing, usually passes without much notice, except for the pompous rituals and antiquarian costumes that accompany it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
Johnson claimed that proroguing Parliament was just an efficient way to get the government organized regarding its domestic agenda, such as new plans for the National Health Service and strategies for fighting crime.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 30, 2019
This is a good quick backgrounder from the House of Commons library on how exactly proroguing parliament works.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2019
This is known as proroguing, and would require the permission of the Queen.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2019
Here all the discourse is, that now the King is of opinion to have the Parliament called, notwithstanding his late resolutions for proroguing them; so unstable are his councils and those about him. 18th.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke
Vocabulary lists containing prorogue
The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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