Crossword clues for parliamentary
parliamentary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
parliamentary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a congressional/parliamentary election (=to elect people to a congress or parliament)
▪ People voted overwhelmingly Republican in the last congressional elections.
a parliamentary candidate
▪ O'Connor was the parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrats.
a parliamentary commission
▪ A report was made by a special parliamentary commission.
a parliamentary democracy (=one with an elected parliament)
▪ Britain is a parliamentary democracy.
a parliamentary majority (=one that has enough seats in parliament to control it)
▪ Labour increased its parliamentary majority.
a parliamentary seat
▪ He and his followers won 10 of the state's 13 parliamentary seats in last month's general election.
a parliamentary/congressional inquiry (=by Parliament/Congress)
▪ The report of a parliamentary inquiry into the drugs trade is published today.
parliamentary approval
▪ The law is still awaiting parliamentary approval.
parliamentary scrutiny (=by parliament)
▪ The Labour Party expressed concern about the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of MI5.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approval
▪ It failed to win government and parliamentary approval.
▪ A proposal by the opposition Labour Party for a more extensive package failed to gain parliamentary approval.
▪ Development plans by government agencies which were opposed by the Park would require parliamentary approval.
▪ The draft orders are again the subject of consultation, following which parliamentary approval turns them into legal binding requirements.
▪ At present there is a moratorium on the construction of nuclear plants, and the plans would need parliamentary approval.
▪ The head of state would have no powers to dissolve parliament or to appoint state officials without parliamentary approval.
▪ Known as the Crossman scheme, it failed to gain parliamentary approval before the 1970 election.
candidate
▪ Hadley is NatPower's new business development director but happens to share his name with the Responsible Independent parliamentary candidate for Wimbledon.
▪ Each of the prospective parliamentary candidates for Orkney and Shetland added their voices to the growing storm of unrest.
▪ The same argument applies with even greater force to the parliamentary candidates - Jones, Thorne, Davis and Gardner.
▪ In 1936 she was adopted as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Exchange division of Liverpool.
▪ John Taylor became one of the best known prospective parliamentary candidates when some local tories objected to his selection.
▪ But for the 4 prospective parliamentary candidates ... the proof of the pudding has to be in the eating.
▪ Alan Milburn, Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Darlington, claims the figures are only the tip of the iceberg.
▪ Keir Hardie joined Labour because the Liberals would not make him, a miner, a parliamentary candidate.
colleague
▪ I remember vividly the response which this evoked among many of my parliamentary colleagues.
▪ They were not respecters of party lines and the last two in particular were widely distrusted among parliamentary colleagues.
▪ My parliamentary colleague, the Member for Ludlow, Christopher Gill, has been leading the chase.
commission
▪ The parliamentary commission investigating Mr Kohl has said it will not use the files as evidence.
▪ Unity and the Communists also agreed on who should preside over the parliamentary commissions.
▪ A parliamentary commission is re-evaluating Tangentopoli.
▪ In October 1989 the opposition unsuccessfully attempted to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the affair.
▪ It called for the formation of a joint parliamentary commission in April, when the two-plus-four talks would also begin.
▪ A parliamentary commission is investigating whether Mr Kohl's governments swapped favours for party donations.
▪ A parliamentary commission was appointed on April 18 to investigate the Shkodër killings.
committee
▪ Civil servants give evidence to parliamentary committees and other official inquiries.
▪ If the parliamentary committee wishes to see Britain's racing transformed, it should forget about tampering with the levy rate.
▪ He continued to serve on increasing numbers of parliamentary committees until his death 26 March 1652.
▪ The panel's report, which has been submitted to a parliamentary committee, set out two lines of argument.
▪ He was named to all the parliamentary committees for Shropshire from 1646 until his death.
▪ As an important Liverpool trader, he was on most of the parliamentary committees concerning trade, monopolies, and navigation.
constituency
▪ Also Brent East has the highest concentration of immigrants of any parliamentary constituency in the country.
▪ Separated for local government purposes, the Hartlepools were united as one parliamentary constituency in 1868.
▪ Even in a traditionally Conservative parliamentary constituency, the youthful team could be crucially important.
▪ Of crucial importance, in the end, was the fact that all four areas were in Conservative-held parliamentary constituencies.
▪ Pocket-Breaches, Veneering's bought parliamentary constituency.
▪ The commissioners are enjoined not to cross local authority boundaries in creating parliamentary constituencies.
control
▪ The comptroller's scrutiny of items of expenditure helped promote Treasury and parliamentary control of public expenditure.
▪ There is no parliamentary control over Government borrowing.
debate
▪ The series of parliamentary debates and votes leading to the congress session revealed deep-seated divisions among the opposition.
▪ The parliamentary debate on the Report showed the Home Secretary adopting a two-pronged strategy in his response.
▪ The parliamentary debate has been deferred.
▪ The language of parliamentary debate in Britain has reflected this change.
▪ Television also received a disproportionate amount of public attention in the press and parliamentary debate.
▪ Soporific parliamentary debates now make essential viewing, and posters and T-shirts bearing his features sell fast.
▪ They were subject to exhaustive parliamentary debate and, on occasion, referendum.
▪ A parliamentary debate on the issue might be the one thing to tear the coalition apart.
democracy
▪ As a whole it reaffirmed liberal individualism, pluralism and parliamentary democracy.
▪ Established elements of parliamentary democracy in Britain are challenged.
▪ I see no purpose in a further referendum on that matter - we are a parliamentary democracy.
▪ Perhaps that is one of the safeguards that has made this country such a successful and stable parliamentary democracy.
▪ However, we should interfere in local government with some trepidation because local democracy and local accountability underpin parliamentary democracy and accountability.
▪ Is majority rule under a system of parliamentary democracy a sufficient guarantee of legitimacy?
▪ For the whole sample, the comparison reveals that presidential democracies are more likely to break down than parliamentary democracies.
▪ Within our system of parliamentary democracy, only inter-party competition was seen as crucial and desirable.
deputy
▪ Six parliamentary deputies faced criminal prosecution once their parliamentary immunity had been removed.
election
▪ Local and parliamentary elections are due this autumn, and Mr Milosevic may hold the presidential poll early, possibly in September.
▪ A parliamentary election dominated by his Communist opponents.
▪ Impressed by Chandrika's brilliant campaigning, Mrs Bandaranaike stepped down as party leader before the 1994 parliamentary elections.
▪ Otherwise, the ruling center-right coalition was sure to lose the 1998 parliamentary elections.
▪ The decision highlighted scandals plaguing the ruling Socialist Party just five weeks before parliamentary elections.
▪ Jan 12, following the parliamentary elections held on Dec 10, 1989.
▪ But he would vote for the official Labour candidate in a parliamentary election.
▪ Now everyone expects Ion Iliescu and his post-communist party to win this autumn's presidential and parliamentary elections.
enclosure
▪ The landscape of parliamentary enclosure at Oare on Exmoor Somerset.
▪ The landscape of parliamentary enclosure in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.
▪ But probably four out of five of these farmsteads in the fields are the consequence of parliamentary enclosure.
▪ The landscape of parliamentary enclosure at Brauston, Leicestershire.
▪ Farmsteads are still rare outside the villages: the few that exist were mostly built after the parliamentary enclosure of the parishes.
▪ On the far side of the meadows of the River Welland are the regular fields of parliamentary enclosure.
▪ The landscape of parliamentary enclosure on King s Sedgemoor Somerset Levels.
government
▪ With the introduction of parliamentary government in 1918, a layer of elected politicians was superimposed on the existing administrative apparatus.
▪ The fourth element of the constitution is one that I have described as a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy.
▪ Morley denied that they were intended as a prelude to parliamentary government.
▪ Such was the power of the High Command that they were able to install a parliamentary government by a few sharp memoranda.
▪ The Basic Law inaugurated a system of parliamentary government, in which the prime division is between government and opposition.
immunity
▪ The House refused demands it stripped Muawad of his parliamentary immunity.
▪ Six parliamentary deputies faced criminal prosecution once their parliamentary immunity had been removed.
▪ Qirrish's parliamentary immunity was removed.
inquiry
▪ But it is the upcoming parliamentary inquiry into the affair that promises to produce the real fireworks.
▪ Shekhar initially apologised over the surveillance and offered a joint parliamentary inquiry.
▪ On June 27 the liberal opposition failed to win sufficient support to set up a parliamentary inquiry.
institution
▪ The 1979 Constitution was suspended, and parliamentary institutions were abolished.
leader
▪ But after the vote on Mr Craxi, parliamentary leaders agreed to take all such decisions by a show of hands.
▪ Connie Hedegaard took over from Engell as the Conservatives' parliamentary leader.
▪ Disappointment and frustration began to accumulate in criticism of Buxton as parliamentary leader of the cause.
▪ Were they a challenge or complement to parliamentary leaders?
▪ Hence the parliamentary leaders dominated the mass party, which was conceived only as a means for contesting elections.
majority
▪ The draft was due to be discussed with opposition parties in September with a view to securing a parliamentary majority.
▪ Will Barak be able to go on ignoring the contradictions of his parliamentary majority for much longer?
▪ Was it because its parliamentary majority prevented any real possibility of its position being threatened?
▪ Yet there was always an element of complacency about an administration which enjoyed a substantial parliamentary majority.
▪ Ministers could expect to have a parliamentary majority whatever they did.
▪ He had only a tiny parliamentary majority, and Britain was in the grip of another economic crisis.
▪ A key provision was the need for a three-fifths parliamentary majority for constitutional amendments.
▪ Buthe won the 1996 election so narrowly that he reluctantly had to rely on the nationalist parties for a stable parliamentary majority.
material
▪ If this is correct, the purposes for which parliamentary material will be admitted is enlarged.
▪ Again, is parliamentary material admissible in support of an argument for an alternative construction?
▪ And the Committee has kept a close watch on the uses made by the broadcasters of parliamentary material in their programmes.
▪ Contextual parliamentary material is only admissible to the extent necessary to understand parliamentary statements establishing parliamentary intent.
▪ When reference to contextual parliamentary material is necessary is also uncertain.
▪ So, for what purposes may parliamentary material be admitted where a legislative text is ambiguous or obscure?
opposition
▪ In the spring of 1962, with the national emergency now over, the parliamentary opposition came back to life.
▪ Nor did he enjoy the business of parliamentary opposition.
▪ Restraint was initially the responsibility of the parliamentary opposition using a system of procedural checks on estimates and expenditure payments.
▪ The announcement represented a compromise after weeks of tension between the government and the parliamentary opposition.
▪ Most leading ministers resigned, complaining of his dictatorial behaviour, and now form the parliamentary opposition.
party
▪ The division occurred on the day of a vital meeting of the 140 members of the Janata Dal parliamentary party.
▪ After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton.
▪ The latter was essentially isolated within the Conservative parliamentary party.
▪ Now, the Leader of that parliamentary party with an overall majority is entitled to be asked to form a government.
▪ Membership of the parliamentary party has changed; the manual workers have all but disappeared.
▪ There were also increasingly visible divisions within the parliamentary party itself.
▪ The right-wing populist Progress Party is the only one of the eight parliamentary parties opposed to the treaty.
▪ The clearest characteristic of the parliamentary party was its strongly regional base.
politics
▪ They are also the continuing decline of parliamentary politics and political control increasingly orchestrated by a small clique within the Cabinet.
▪ Yet mass media coverage of general elections and parliamentary politics is highly personalized and concentrates on the party leaders.
▪ But these delicate flowers of parliamentary politics could not blossom in the climate of autocracy.
▪ However, they were not interested in parliamentary politics but in arousing the workers.
▪ All was far from well in parliamentary politics.
▪ On July 16 Bhutto announced her intention to abandon parliamentary politics and engage in street demonstrations to press for fresh elections.
▪ The connection between parliamentary politics and the filling of revenue posts was continuous throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
procedure
▪ In 1983 the Procedure Committee recommended drastic revision of parliamentary procedure on taxation.
▪ The vote came after majority Nationalist Party officials said today the party would use parliamentary procedures to block implementation of the bills.
▪ These parliamentary procedures rest upon the government's command of a majority.
▪ The arcane language of parliamentary procedures always seemed to come more easily to Dole than straight forward talk on fundamental values.
▪ Such breaches of parliamentary procedure carry a £500 fine.
▪ Mr Major insisted that the Government would abide by normal parliamentary procedures.
▪ Within a matter of weeks he had put in place a constituent procedure entirely different from the parliamentary procedure of 1945-46.
question
▪ Even a parliamentary question received such an ambiguous answer that deputies were little the wiser after the government's reply.
▪ A series of parliamentary questions has been asked about the funding of books in education.
▪ I have answered parliamentary questions from the hon. Gentleman when I have been able to do so.
▪ In theory all parliamentary questions must be answered after one month.
▪ My hon. Friend asked about answers to parliamentary questions.
▪ I have tabled parliamentary questions about that, but I have received no proper answers.
reform
▪ In 1832 the first parliamentary reform bill was passed and Dundee was one of the new constituencies created by the Act.
▪ Never forget that parliamentary reform has affected the lives of most readers of this paper.
▪ The Government are committed to sustaining the momentum of parliamentary reform.
▪ From early youth Cayley was a keen proponent of parliamentary reform, and he took an active part in local Whig politics.
▪ Pressure for some parliamentary reform, with a redistribution of seats and a widening of the franchise, began to develop.
▪ The campaign for parliamentary reform had drawn the population in, inpart through great reform meetings.
▪ The concession of some parliamentary reform was seen as necessary in order to prevent worse happenings.
▪ He was an active parliamentarian who supported Catholic emancipation, parliamentary reform, and the repeal of the corn laws.
report
▪ Its strident headlines implied that the march of modern Jacobinism was about to be started by an obscure parliamentary report.
▪ He studied the parliamentary reports closely after each session ended.
▪ SkyNews also broadcasts a live parliamentary report and covers the House in its nightly news bulletins.
representation
▪ Making parliamentary representation conditional upon loyalty to the Emperor system, formally narrowed the freedom for party initiatives.
▪ They may now congratulate themselves on having obtained some parliamentary representation.
▪ Croydon is indeed a borough fortunate in its parliamentary representation.
▪ It is in fact increased, in as much as their political choices are assured of fair parliamentary representation.
scrutiny
▪ Nevertheless, it is still open to question whether these arrangements are an adequate substitute for parliamentary scrutiny.
▪ It reformed the judicial system, buttressing its independence, and introduced parliamentary scrutiny of important public sector contracts and appointments.
seat
▪ In 1942 she married James Hoy who gained the Leith parliamentary seat for Labour in the 1945 general election.
▪ Many councils are controlled by their political opponents, even in areas where Conservatives hold parliamentary seats with quite large majorities.
▪ Hannington unsuccessfully contested parliamentary seats in 1929, 1931, 1934, and 1950.
▪ As events were to demonstrate, eleven parliamentary seats or a difference of twenty-two votes in a parliamentary division were at stake.
▪ Election results Mahathir's coalition won 127 parliamentary seats, thereby securing its two-thirds majority.
▪ The socialists looked set to lose 200 or more of their 270 parliamentary seats.
▪ They will be lucky if they retain as many as 80 of their present 265 parliamentary seats.
session
▪ It will bring forward legislation in the coming parliamentary session to introduce student loans, partially replacing grants, from autumn 1990.
▪ Barring unexpected defections from the coalition, Mr Hashimoto should be confirmed in a special parliamentary session on Thursday.
▪ My father has a flat, which he uses during the parliamentary session.
▪ He added that if swift action was taken, new legislation could be in place by the end of the parliamentary session.
▪ He was discovered and bitterly attacked by his former friends in the next parliamentary session.
▪ This dispute has been settled too late for the bill to be included in the parliamentary session that starts in November.
▪ The coming parliamentary session will provide a momentous opportunity for public debate on a matter of deep moral significance.
▪ Hoyte had twice extended the parliamentary session in 1991, ostensibly in order to allow new electoral rolls to be drawn up.
sovereignty
▪ It should not be seen as a restriction on parliamentary sovereignty.
▪ The threat which this arrangement poses to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty is obvious.
▪ The passion with which the mythology of parliamentary sovereignty is defended ... baffles Paris and Bonn.
▪ The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty was illegitimate, if not incomprehensible, to Rousseau.
▪ Neither distinction can be sustained when the courts are required to determine the limits of parliamentary sovereignty.
▪ By virtue of the concept of parliamentary sovereignty, the act would be definitive.
▪ It precedence derives from the concept of parliamentary sovereignty.
▪ The concept of the rule of law is not logically compatible with that of parliamentary sovereignty.
support
▪ Despite her current parliamentary support, analysts warn she could run into trouble because of her spouse-and her gender.
system
▪ A democratic, parliamentary system of government has been set up with free elections at least once every five years.
▪ Those pressures are all the more acute in a parliamentary system where a leader must respond to pressures from his colleagues.
▪ In parliamentary systems, too, Prime Ministers seem increasingly active in managing their media relations.
▪ In the model of liberal democracy, interests are aggregated through political parties and expressed within the parliamentary system.
▪ All elections in two-party parliamentary systems are essentially about whether or not it is time for a change.
▪ When this situation exists the freedom to protest outside the parliamentary system is of great importance to such minorities.
▪ Clearly, these views are incompatible with the Labour Party's acceptance of the parliamentary system.
▪ The fragility of the parliamentary system was already apparent.
time
▪ Occasionally governments assist private members with their Bills, particularly by allowing extra parliamentary time.
▪ Privatization, like nationalization, imposes a stiff workload and absorbs a great deal of parliamentary time.
▪ There is constant negotiation between the whips of the main parties over the use of parliamentary time.
▪ It could be considered a waste of prime parliamentary time.
▪ Today is a rare opportunity for Ulster Members to have parliamentary time.
▪ It would be an extravagant use of parliamentary time to require new legislation for changes of this kind.
▪ Mr. MacGregor I have not received any representations about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members.
▪ Mr. MacGregor I do not think that it is necessary to provide any more parliamentary time for that.
vote
▪ And they would have to garner at least 3 percent of the parliamentary vote to receive state funding.
▪ In contrast, no government has sought to remain in office after losing a parliamentary vote of confidence.
▪ Vote of confidence On April 19 the new government won a parliamentary vote of confidence by 339 votes to 207.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ parliamentary elections
▪ a parliamentary debate
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the Committee has kept a close watch on the uses made by the broadcasters of parliamentary material in their programmes.
▪ Both parties wanted the government to hold parliamentary elections first.
▪ Collectively they are evidence of a coherent, deeply felt, formidable body of opinion within the present Conservative parliamentary party.
▪ Formally, it was parliamentary and the approval of the Supreme Soviet was needed for all significant laws and appointments.
▪ He subsequently fought and held his parliamentary seat against his former party.
▪ Land was the basis of Lowther's county and parliamentary position; the law gave him added influence and opportunity.
▪ That apparatus does not fit with parliamentary self-government.
▪ The settlement followed three weeks of mounting tension which triggered communal rioting and disrupted government and parliamentary business.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parliamentary
Parliamentary \Par`lia*men"ta*ry\, a. [Cf. F. parlementaire.]
Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority.
--Bacon.Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act.
--Sir M. Hale.-
According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion; parliamentary order; parliamentary procedure.
Parliamentary agent, a person, usually a solicitor, professionally employed by private parties to explain and recommend claims, bills, etc., under consideration of Parliament. [Eng.]
Parliamentary train, one of the trains which, by act of Parliament, railway companies are required to run for the conveyance of third-class passengers at a reduced rate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
parliamentary
1610s, from parliament + -ary.
Wiktionary
parliamentary
a. 1 Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament 2 Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament. 3 (context British English) A class of train (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary%20train)
WordNet
parliamentary
adj. relating to or having the nature of a parliament; "parliamentary reform"; "a parliamentary body"
having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament; "parliamentary government"
in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly; "parliamentary law"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "parliamentary".
In order not to compromise the influence of his family in the arrondissement of Arcis, that old statesman would doubtless propose for candidate some young man who could be induced to accept an official function and then yield his place to Charles Keller,--a parliamentary arrangement which renders the elect of the people subject to re-election.
With one senator excluded from voting by parliamentary law and the other absent by reason of physical disability, Mr.
Roby the ministerialist, sitting at the end of the table between his sister-in-law and Mrs Happerton, was very confidential respecting the Government and parliamentary affairs in general.
The miscarriage off Toulon became the subject of a parliamentary inquiry in England.
Theo, have no doubt that after a few months as an unhappy guest of Lord Monkshood and his parliamentary constables I would wind up in a lime pit somewhere, or a furnace.
Henry Hunt and others, met in Spa-fields on the 10th of February, under the pretext of petitioning for parliamentary reform.
The protestors and the mounted grims seemed to have control of the field with all the parliamentary constables killed, lying wounded, or in retreat.
Henry was, no doubt, entirely bent on his destruction, when, on his failure by a parliamentary impeachment, he attacked him upon the statute of provisors, which afforded him so little just hold on that minister.
Mr Rattler and Mr Roby had throughout their long parliamentary lives belonged to opposite parties, and had been accustomed to regard each other with mutual jealousy and almost with mutual hatred.
Saudi regime has pursued very superficial political and economic reforms, the government in Tehran has removed many of the religious restrictions, especially those on women, and helped to reinvigorate a quite lively parliamentary and political debate, which culminated in the critical parliamentary election in April 1992.
The marshals of the Parliamentary Guard came to take me to Strawflower Square, which was almost deserted.
Beck of Kentucky, Randall and Woodward of Pennsylvania, Marshall of Illinois, Brooks, Wood, Potter, Slocum, and Cox, of New York, Kerr, Niblack, Voorhees, and Holman of Indiana, Eldridge of Wisconsin, Van Trump and Morgan of Ohio, unitedly presented a strong array of Parliamentary ability.
Thus, after he and Peel had declared Canning and his cabinet to be irreligious, revolutionary, and dangerous to the country, in all the cant phrases of the time, their very first act was to take possession, as it were, of the Canning cabinet itself, and next of the Canning policy, on account of which the illustrious dead had been solemnly denounced by the one, and vituperated, in a manner far exceeding parliamentary licence, by the other.
Isabelle described the latest session of the European parliamentary committee into adai rights.
Except for occasional spells of depression he remained confident that he would achieve his goal - not by force and scarcely by winning a parliamentary majority, but by the means which had carried Schleicher and Papen to the top: by backstairs intrigue, a game that two could play.