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parliament

[pahr-luh-muhnt, pahrl-yuh-] / หˆpษ‘r lษ™ mษ™nt, หˆpษ‘rl jษ™- /


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Wells said she formally introduced the "Digital Duty of Care" bill to parliament on Thursday morning.

From Barron's โ— Oct. 15, 2026

“We have requested information, as well as fair treatment and humanitarian consideration,” Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told parliament Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Oct. 14, 2026

But in August 2025, India's junior foreign minister Kirti Vardhan Singh told parliament that both agreements had expired.

From BBC โ— Oct. 14, 2026

The body had originally been due to lie in state at parliament, but the scale of the crowds and fears of a security breach forced a last-minute change of venue to Kasarani Stadium.

From BBC โ— Oct. 11, 2026

He was encouraged to write a letter to the Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, and he composed a five-hundred-word plea, extracts of which follow:

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Similar schemes are held for the devolved Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish parliaments.

From BBC โ— Sep. 17, 2026

However, it isn't thought his ideas would be as significant as the setting up of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and the Northern Ireland Assembly, nor the introduction of regional mayors in England.

From BBC โ— Jun. 28, 2026

In 1780, remarkably, Richmond proposed annual parliaments and universal male suffrage, 138 years before the latter would be achieved.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Jun. 12, 2026

Popes rarely address parliaments, trying to avoid overt political interventions.

From Barron's โ— Jun. 8, 2026

The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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