How to Use parliament in a Sentence

parliament

noun

• The law was passed in the present parliament.
• The parliament has authority over the armed forces.
• The issue was debated in Parliament.
• The new parliament starts its four-year term at the end of May.
  — Se Eun Gong, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
• The parliament later called on member states to do the same.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
• If it is approved, the bill will progress to the next stage in parliament, reports Reuters.
  — Sylvia Hui, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2024
• The bill, known as C-18, was approved by the lower house of parliament late last year.
  — Paul Vieira, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2023
• The government said the non-dom measures alone will raise £12.7 billion over the course of the parliament.
  — Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
• The coalition still maintained the largest number of seats in parliament.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• And he’s just burned one of his key options, which is the option to dissolve parliament.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
• The parliament is also next to Borsen, as the building is called.
  — Christian Wienberg, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
• The vote now sends the legislation to the entire parliament for a series of votes.
  — Yonat Friling, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Both houses of the Russian parliament will meet next week to approve the treaties for the regions to join Russia.
  — Matthew Lee, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2022
• Not in your boardrooms or your C-suites or in your houses of parliaments or in your Congress.
  — Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
• Two far-right alliances are now the third- and fourth-largest groupings in the parliament, ahead of the centrist Renew Europe group.
  — Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
• She was elected to the lower house of state parliament in New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2024
• In Scandinavia, the far-right Sweden Democrats have moved from being a fringe group to become the third largest group in parliament.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023
• The bill has angered the French left, who view it as a means of appeasing far-right lawmakers in parliament.
  — Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• In France, the far-right candidate for EU parliament won 31.5% of the vote, according to exit polls.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
• The law, which was passed by New Zealand’s parliament this week, bans the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2008.
  — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• But the question is whether that will satisfy an electorate that voted the PTI as the largest party in parliament.
  — Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
• The exposé even led to hearings in Japan’s parliament, but the response was largely muted.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
• During the hearing, a lawyer for Swann — now a member of parliament for South Antrim — read a statement agreed upon by the parties.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
• The agreement still needs to be formally endorsed by member states and the parliament to be binding.
  — Ewa Krukowska, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2022
• Far-right parties that were once on the fringes have now won more than 10% of the seats in parliament — and are also likely to secure Cabinet seats.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2022
• See the letter to U.K. parliament and the list of signatories below.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023
• Now the coalition wants to give parliament more power to select judges and override Supreme Court rulings.
  — Ian Prasad Philbrick, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2023
• The next vote will take place in the Senate in February and later in the French Congress, a special body composed of both chambers of parliament.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
• Australia introduced a world-first legislation into the country's parliament on Thursday, which would see social media banned for teenagers under the age of 16.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• Before the soldiers could enter the chamber, parliament unanimously voted to overturn martial law, leading to its end six hours later.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024