national parliament

collocation in English

meanings of nationaland parliament

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national
adjective
uk /ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/ us /ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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parliament
noun
uk /ˈpɑː.lɪ.mənt/ us /ˈpɑːr.lə.mənt/
in some countries, the group of (usually) elected politicians or other people who make the laws for ...
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Examples of national parliament

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That is why no responsible nationalparliament can accept it in such a form.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is now preparing a new adoption law which will reportedly soon be put before the nationalparliament.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
You would think that we were in a nationalparliament!
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Today, with the game of musical chairs that is being played by the government, women make up 8% of the nationalparliament.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
No member of a nationalparliament would consider for a moment having limited and anything but transparent democratic scrutiny of security and defence.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
These were not elections to the nationalparliament.
While members of the nationalparliament, they care about their local mandates and autonomy.
The community is secular (albeit it also takes care of its religious minority) and is governed by a democratically elected nationalparliament.
Far from being universally reviled, some of them were elected to the nationalparliament with record numbers of votes.
As many of these new powers required legislation, so the nationalparliament acquired greater influence.
Even so, the norm in most parliamentary democracies is for the nationalparliament to remain in existence for between roughly three and a half and four and a half years.
The tangible progress that women have made in the nationalparliament has not been so marked in some of the provincial parliaments, or in local government.
And the present incumbent seems to be trying for as much mileage as possible out of the larrikin image, in the now-televised theatre of the nationalparliament.
No nationalparliament has more democratic freedoms than we do.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Another key issue, apart from tax law, when it comes to the decision-making ability of each nationalparliament and government is defence policy.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The elected members of the nationalparliament lead anti-democratic demonstrations on the streets instead of opposing the government inside the parliament.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
What have gone relatively well, however, are the parliamentary elections, the elections for members of the nationalparliament.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is an absolute disgrace, and there was not even a debate in our nationalparliament on actually rescuing these bust banks.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
No nationalparliament is as consistent as we are in increasing the amount of work it does.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
To my knowledge, no such restriction exists in any nationalparliament.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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