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
  • The move comes ahead of parliamentary elections that must be held no later than April in Greenland.
    — Gqlshare, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Carney is expected to call a parliamentary election by the end of the week, to take place in late April or early May.
    — Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Has been a member of the parliamentary procedures team for four years.
    — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In the queen's stead, her son Prince Charles will read her speech, which sets out the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • Although the bloc supported by the militias won the most votes, its share of the country’s 329 parliamentary seats dropped by almost two-thirds.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • These parliamentary elections are just as crucial as the ones to choose a president.
    — Garret Martin, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2022
  • There, the scene has devolved over the past week into the parliamentary equivalent of a Superfund site.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Some students had camped at the back gate of the parliamentary building since Wednesday evening, protesting the law and demanding the government pull out all military personnel from civilian jobs.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Military personnel were called in for security in the parliamentary building to assist the police.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2025

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