Example sentences for: parliament

How can you use “parliament” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The palace balcony from which Spartacist leader Karl Liebknecht proclaimed his doomed “Socialist Republic” in 1918 was added to the front of the Staatsrat (Council of State) building on the east side of the square, while the monstrous bronze, glass, and steel Palast der Republik, once, not so very long ago, the seat of East Germany’s parliament, replaced what remained of the royal residence.

  • O’Connell was made lord mayor of Dublin in 1841, but failed in his bid to have the Act of Union repealed and an Irish parliament re-established.

  • Getting a federal government’s priorities in proper perspective, one member of parliament bemoaned the cultural center as “50 years ahead of its time — that’s how long it’ll take the taxpayers to meet the 500 percent cost overrun.”

  • The LAT 's "Column One" details a corollary of Russia's constitutional provision that no member of its parliament can be prosecuted for a crime while in office: One hundred and five of this year's candidates are convicts and four others are wanted by police.

  • The ceremonial sword of state, mace, and oar are kept here and used at the opening of parliament, held each year in early November.


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