democratic parliament
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdemocraticandparliament
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democratic
adjective
uk/ˌdem.əˈkræt.ɪk/us/ˌdem.əˈkræt̬.ɪk/
based on the principles ...
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parliament
noun
uk/ˈpɑː.lɪ.mənt/us/ˈpɑːr.lə.mənt/
in some countries, the group of (usually) elected politicians or other people who make the laws for ...
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(Definition ofdemocraticandparliamentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Their stock-in-trade is fear, fear of our neighbours, of democratic parliaments, of governments and of globalisation.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Our countries are, in fact, democratic states with democratic governments and democratic parliaments.
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Most democratic parliaments in the free world reject it on principle unless there is overwhelming public interest, which clearly there is not in this case.
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A sound real economy comprises rising incomes, high and rising demand, high productivity and an active financial policy on the part of democratic parliaments and governments.
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Democratic parliaments are elected everywhere.
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Should not they be given credit for the great steps that they have already taken in establishing ademocraticparliament?
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That is no way to behave in a pluralist,democraticparliamentwhere we thrive on proper debate, not shouting people down.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
That is an untruth, and you do not have to be in anybody's pocket to speak the truth in ademocraticparliament.
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Yet it did not consult, it would not listen and it decided to ignore thisdemocraticparliament.
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I wish long life to any real,democraticparliamentthat is close to the people and binds peoples together.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
In addition, sixty people were injured in the attack, which was targeted at ademocraticparliament.
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It has a democratic government and ademocraticparliament, but that needs strengthening.
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In anydemocraticparliamentworthy of the name, a political group is allowed to decide its own representative on certain committees.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
However, in a democracy and in ademocraticparliament, all sorts of views are heard.
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In ademocraticparliament, no speaker may be prevented from expressing his or her views by means of systematic heckling by colleagues who hold differing views.
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The momentous historical change that led up to the formation of the first trulydemocraticparliament and government of the republic has been welcomed throughout the world.
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If there are all these different groups, the minority parties, which we are not used to having in ademocraticparliament, will almost certainly effectively run the show.
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I would not have believed images and scenes of this kind to be possible in a multinational,democraticparliament, but we all bore witness to what happened.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Secondly, we are in ademocraticparliament.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We shall not be doing our duty if we replace our powers as an electeddemocraticparliamentand do not put the issue out to a referendum.
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