Words similar to commons

Example sentences for: commons

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, House of Commons) sovereignty and toward divided sovereignty of various kinds--parliaments for Scotland and Wales, stronger local governments with elected mayors, the European parliament.
The present Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, because of his tendency to change his public position on such things as the universality of social programs, is widely known as Lyin'-Brian . In the 1970s, Prime Minister Trudeau was overheard using the f-word in the House of Commons, but when asked about it later, he claimed that what he had said was fuddle-duddle . The country was generally amused (though not deceived) by this humorous explanation.
You quite clearly state your unwillingness to advise on issues of macroeconomics, but one assumes you are aware of all this "tragedy of the commons" talk that's going around about the Web.
The pitfalls of negotiation are described in He who gets between the onion and its skin will be rewarded by its stink, while an observation on rhetoric, as true of the House of Commons as of the Abbasid court, goes, Everything is cut short except a long speech.
Once again, it is a change that affects life in the commons.