How to Use parliamentary in a Sentence

parliamentary

adjective
  • In the Netherlands, the far right won the most parliamentary seats in last year’s election.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The planned strike has led to the closure of streets and schools, as well as the postponement of the day’s parliamentary session.
    Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The State Opening has been used to mark the start of a parliamentary year since the late 14th century.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 July 2024
  • On Tuesday, the King kicked off the first start of the parliamentary year of his royal reign at the Palace of Westminster.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • About a third of young people don’t vote in the first round of parliamentary elections.
    Nadia Beard, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • She was met with cheers and applause in the packed parliamentary chamber.
    Emma Ogao, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Lai won with just a bit more than 40 percent of the vote, and the DPP failed to win a parliamentary majority.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • That means that vote after vote over the next two years will likely teeter on a parliamentary cliff.
    Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • All three parties were part of the pro-Sisi bloc during the last parliamentary elections.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • That led President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election for the end of the month.
    Simon Constable, Fox News, 16 June 2024
  • Popova failed to win a seat in parliamentary elections in 2021.
    Kim Hjelmgaard and Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
  • If this country had a more parliamentary system, a snap election would have already been called, and the House GOP may well have lost it.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Berlinguer nearly brought the PCI to power in the Italian parliamentary elections of 1976.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
  • There, the scene has devolved over the past week into the parliamentary equivalent of a Superfund site.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • There will be a push to vote before EU parliamentary elections in early June 2024.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Israel’s parliamentary system: The Supreme Court is viewed as the sole check on lawmakers and the prime minister.
    Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • On Monday, the first-day of the special session, the House stumbled out of the gate as a proposal to suspend the rules to speed up the parliamentary process failed on multiple voice votes.
    Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The bill, which is subject to changes during a parliamentary committee debate, needs at least 75 votes to pass.
    Renee Maltezou, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
  • That’s because of the victim, the timing – just two days before parliamentary elections – and the fact that almost no one is ever shot to death in Japan.
    Frida Ghitis, CNN, 8 July 2022
  • The vote on part of the legislation is just the first of three readings required for parliamentary approval, a process that is expected to take months.
    Laurie Kellman and Ilan Ben Zion, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Responding to a series of questions is not the same as parliamentary debate, of course.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
  • In late April, during the first phase of the election, where nearly one-fifth of all parliamentary seats were going to polls, witnessed poor voter turnout.
    Nilesh Christopher, WIRED, 30 July 2024
  • Under Britain’s parliamentary system, there does not need to be one until the end of 2024, though the government has the power to call one sooner.
    Jill Lawless, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Jansa was ousted from power in the parliamentary election in April.
    Dusan Stojanovic, ajc, 13 Nov. 2022
  • In June, voters throughout the E.U. gave far-right parties record support in the bloc’s parliamentary elections.
    TIME, 30 July 2024
  • Until 2019, the Tories held only three out of twenty-nine parliamentary seats in the region.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Only 40 percent of Iraqis turned out to vote in the parliamentary elections last year, and many have given up on the political process.
    Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The event was especially momentous as the first of King Charles’ reign, and his ceremonial role helped mark the start of the parliamentary year.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
  • If Georgian Dream’s win is confirmed, the party will have a parliamentary majority which will stoke fears about the country’s bid for EU membership.
    Reuters, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement The first vote passed 92-10 and followed a fiery debate between supporters of the law and its opponents, mostly members of Arab parliamentary parties.
    Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024

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