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 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
• 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
• 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
• Today, Rwanda ranks first globally in the number of women in parliament at a rate of more than 60%.
  — H.e. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Dr. K.y. Amoako, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2023
• But their rulings leave open paths for the City of Buenos Aires to put the system back online: One, the control commission in the city parliament must be functional.
  — Karen Naundorf, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
• One of Huda’s team even called a relative who worked in the Palestinian parliament.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• The coup-plotters fired at crowds and bombed parliament and other government buildings.
  — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
• His father, a judge, had been elected to parliament as a member of Atatürk’s Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi—the only party at the time—which oversaw the vast autocratic project of modernizing the new nation.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024