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Recent Examples of parliamentary
Rama’s governing Socialist Party achieved a landslide win in the May 11 parliamentary election, getting 83 seats in the 140-seat parliament.
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Llazar Semini, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Kurz led his party to election victories in 2017 and 2019 by adopting a hard line on immigration similar to that of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), which won the last parliamentary election in September.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 26 May 2025
Supporters of Senate Bill 72 pushed the legislation through on the last day of the session after using a rare parliamentary maneuver.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 23 May 2025
Visit the Binnenhof, one of Europe’s oldest parliamentary buildings and stroll past Noordeinde Palace, the working palace of the Dutch king.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
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Llazar Semini, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Kurz led his party to election victories in 2017 and 2019 by adopting a hard line on immigration similar to that of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), which won the last parliamentary election in September.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 26 May 2025
Supporters of Senate Bill 72 pushed the legislation through on the last day of the session after using a rare parliamentary maneuver.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 23 May 2025
Visit the Binnenhof, one of Europe’s oldest parliamentary buildings and stroll past Noordeinde Palace, the working palace of the Dutch king.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parliamentary
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The opening of federal work following the Civil Rights Movement provided an alternative to manual labor, teaching or ministerial work in the form of white-collar jobs and skills training that many took into private sector jobs.—
J. David McSwane,
ProPublica,
4 June 2025
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Wilders’ announcement that his PVV party will be leaving the coalition means that any party members holding ministerial positions in the cabinet will leave, while remaining ministers from three other parties will continue as part of a caretaker cabinet.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
3 June 2025
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The ambassador, Nayef Al Sudairi visited the West Bank in September 2023 to present his credentials to Abbas in what was the highest-level official Saudi visit in decades at the time.—
Kareem Khadder,
CNN Money,
30 May 2025
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Spanish soccer giant Real Madrid used social media and its official website to announce a huge first team transfer on Friday morning.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Used over six centuries from roughly 2000 B.C. until 1450 B.C., the Minoan palaces were the main administrative, economic, religious and ideological centers of Crete, says Christakis.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has cut as many as 120,000 federal jobs but many workers have been placed on administrative leave, leaving them on U.S. payrolls pending court cases, Morgan Stanley said in a report.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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Lengthy timelines, changing political priorities and bureaucratic red tape can slow progress and introduce significant uncertainty into project planning.—
Seth Gellis,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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We are entangled in a bureaucratic maze: FEMA, the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, IRS and a patchwork of state and local agencies.—
Robert Kaplan,
Mercury News,
3 June 2025
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David Schulenburg co-produced the project, with Rick Mischel and Fonda Snyder as executive producers.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2025
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David Schulenburg co-produced, with Rick Mischel and Fonda Snyder as executive producers.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
9 June 2025
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“Parliamentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parliamentary. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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