Sentences with phrase «parliamentary history»

Yet they provide a mass of information about not just the political system of a crucial period of parliamentary history, but the culture and values of local society.

The SNP secured the first majority in Scottish parliamentary history - an accomplishment many analysts had considered near impossible.

As the first condition - specific piece of legislation, the autism bill will make parliamentary history if it gets through.

Relpying to the debate, Defence Minister Peter Luff noted that Members present were witnessing a «footnote in parliamentary history», saying of Brown:

Its status as a record of Parliamentary history means that the pieces are conservative by nature as Swire explains: «We're discussing the forthcoming general election and how we can record it.

It summed the whole exchange up: this was one of those moments of parliamentary history which are best forgotten.

Electoral reformers have condemned this month's result as the most disproportionate in British parliamentary history

«T May shows how desperate she is to give the spy story legs with the «blank Czech» gag, the most laboured joke in parliamentary history.

The art is treated as a chronicle of Parliamentary history, and the staff will inspect each office to choose the safe spaces where works can be hung without being damaged by sunlight.

These appear in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Parliamentary History.

MPs are demanding an emergency law to remove police and crime commissioner Shaun Wright from office, after one of the severest grillings in parliamentary history.

The pair became the first twin sisters to sit on the Government front bench in parliamentary history.

Recently there has been a lot of inaccurate nonsense written about the origins of the 1922 Committee and readers should refer to Stuart Ball's The 1922 Committee: The Formative Years 1922 - 45 in Parliamentary History 9 (1990) pp 129 - 157 for the definitive history.

Of course, this was not the first time in Parliamentary history that this type of expulsion had occurred, in 1764 John Wilkes was expelled from the British Parliament and in a remarkable parallel to the 1986 situation in Nova Scotia, Wilkes could lay claim to originating the modern political comeback.