"parliament" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He remained for seventeen days outside the National Assembly Building, in an effort to persuade parliament to pass a law against the WTO.
- The fresh accident will hamper attempts by Ministers to persuade parliament to lift a freeze slapped on completion of at least three nearly-completed reactors.
- Can Boris Yeltsin persuade parliament to abolish itself?
- Environmentalists and fishermen combined their efforts to prevent the closure; they persuaded parliament to amend the original plan.
- He advocated the termination of the Military Frontier and persuaded parliament to pass on 5 August 1861 the decision annulling any joint business with Austria.
- One of the aims of the Society had always been to persuade parliament to conduct a committee of inquiry into the lunacy laws.
- He had great success in persuading parliament to pass successive Navy bills authorising expansions of the fleet.
- In 1777, John Wilkes tried (but failed) to persuade parliament to buy the collection for the nation.
- Mr. Primakov has already persuaded parliament to pass the most austere budget in four years.
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