Example sentences for: duma

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

  • The papers all note that not only did Chernomyrdin get voted down by the Duma again, but that the chairman of the central bank resigned.

  • A party called the Stalinist Bloc for the USSR is hoping to break through the 5 percent barrier that would give it members of the Duma.

  • Everybody notes that under the Russian constitution, a third defeat would allow Yeltsin to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, but the LAT alone reports a further element in the collision course between Yeltsin and the Duma: the Duma is considering bringing impeachment charges against Yeltsin, for his roles in the breakup of the USSR, in the attack on the parliament building in 1993, and in the war against secessionist Chechnya.

  • Indifferent to Yeltsin's latest pick and distracted by upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, the Duma rubber-stamped the appointment.

  • The firing of Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov by Boris Yeltsin two days before impeachment proceedings against the president were due to begin in the Duma provoked little surprise in that country's newspapers Wednesday.


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