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Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Le Pen’s trial has cast a shadow over a strong renaissance for National Rally in recent years; the party won the first round of a snap parliamentary election last summer before the country’s leftwing alliance won the second round.
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Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
The law was then used to raid NGOs sympathetic to the opposition days before the October 2024 parliamentary election.
—Anastasiya Zavyalova, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
Leading polls and media platforms in Bangladesh predict that the BNP will dominate the upcoming parliamentary elections, which are due to take place in December or soon afterwards.
—Shamim Chowdhury, NPR, 27 Mar. 2025
The big picture: The judiciary is by far the most powerful institutional check on the power of the government in Israel's parliamentary system, where there is no clear delineation between the executive and legislative branches.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
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Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
The law was then used to raid NGOs sympathetic to the opposition days before the October 2024 parliamentary election.
—Anastasiya Zavyalova, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
Leading polls and media platforms in Bangladesh predict that the BNP will dominate the upcoming parliamentary elections, which are due to take place in December or soon afterwards.
—Shamim Chowdhury, NPR, 27 Mar. 2025
The big picture: The judiciary is by far the most powerful institutional check on the power of the government in Israel's parliamentary system, where there is no clear delineation between the executive and legislative branches.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parliamentary
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This joint ministerial decision was designed to lend legitimacy to the process established under the EU-Turkey deal, but was mired in logistical and legal challenges.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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Their efforts were undermined by regular flux at ministerial level, with the UK having had four prime ministers in as many years.—
Patrick Boyland,
The Athletic,
21 Mar. 2025
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Additionally, department employees may not, when acting in their official capacities, speak at, attend, or otherwise participate in events hosted by the ABA.—
Scott MacFarlane,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Over 1,300 federal employees impacted by the Department of Education's March 11 reduction in force received their official separation notices Thursday, according to copies reviewed by ABC News.—
Arthur Jones II,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2025
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At the same time, the leader of another HHS agency that works on domestic violence, the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services, was placed on administrative leave.—
Selena Simmons-Duffin,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2025
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The agency announced the shuttering on February 24, with staff members put on administrative leave.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Blockchain also removes geographic and bureaucratic barriers to banking.—
Raymond Qu,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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So if the party was going to succeed, this class had to be destroyed and replaced with a new bureaucratic caste of Communist officials.—
Ian Johnson,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2025
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Instead, in an interview in March for this week’s Variety cover story on Wyle, executive producer John Wells and executive producer and showrunner R. Scott Gemmill said the show will jump forward roughly nine to ten months, taking place the following July.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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Iconoclastic critic, art historian, and photographer Max Kozloff, who served as Artforum’s executive editor in the 1970s before turning to his own artistic practice, died on April 6.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Parliamentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parliamentary. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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