national parliament
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnationalandparliament
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national
adjective
uk/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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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 ofnationalandparliamentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnational parliament
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That is why no responsiblenationalparliamentcan accept it in such a form.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It is now preparing a new adoption law which will reportedly soon be put before thenationalparliament.
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You would think that we were in anationalparliament!
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Today, with the game of musical chairs that is being played by the government, women make up 8% of thenationalparliament.
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No member of anationalparliamentwould consider for a moment having limited and anything but transparent democratic scrutiny of security and defence.
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These were not elections to thenationalparliament.
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While members of thenationalparliament, they care about their local mandates and autonomy.
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The community is secular (albeit it also takes care of its religious minority) and is governed by a democratically electednationalparliament.
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Far from being universally reviled, some of them were elected to thenationalparliamentwith record numbers of votes.
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As many of these new powers required legislation, so thenationalparliamentacquired greater influence.
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Even so, the norm in most parliamentary democracies is for thenationalparliamentto remain in existence for between roughly three and a half and four and a half years.
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The tangible progress that women have made in thenationalparliamenthas not been so marked in some of the provincial parliaments, or in local government.
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And the present incumbent seems to be trying for as much mileage as possible out of the larrikin image, in the now-televised theatre of thenationalparliament.
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Nonationalparliamenthas more democratic freedoms than we do.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Another key issue, apart from tax law, when it comes to the decision-making ability of eachnationalparliamentand government is defence policy.
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The elected members of thenationalparliamentlead anti-democratic demonstrations on the streets instead of opposing the government inside the parliament.
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What have gone relatively well, however, are the parliamentary elections, the elections for members of thenationalparliament.
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It is an absolute disgrace, and there was not even a debate in ournationalparliamenton actually rescuing these bust banks.
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Nonationalparliamentis as consistent as we are in increasing the amount of work it does.
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To my knowledge, no such restriction exists in anynationalparliament.
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