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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prorogue .
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Examples
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Governor Marie Bashir had "prorogued" or discontinued Parliament.
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Governor Marie Bashir had "prorogued" or discontinued Parliament.
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When their king "prorogued" the French national assembly in 1789, the parliamentarians met anyway on a tennis court, the so-called Tennis Court coup.
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Remember that the CCFTA was stalled in the Canadian Parliament (we won't say "prorogued") on May 27/09.
The Killing Train 2009
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Dinwiddie could be a gruff man, and he guarded his prerogatives, so he had one conflict after another with the House of Burgesses, which he usually prorogued dismissed if it did not do his bidding.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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One recent practical application is mentions of Stephen Harper when parliament was prorogued.
Sysomos Has Your Info, and Has Some Interesting Results : Law is Cool 2009
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It seems unbelievable that the Conservative government has prorogued Parliament for the second time in a year.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Dinwiddie said that the emergency was so great that he had to assent to the act as passed; he did so on February 23 and then prorogued the assembly yet again.7
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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It seems unbelievable that the Conservative government has prorogued Parliament for the second time in a year.
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Dinwiddie said that the emergency was so great that he had to assent to the act as passed; he did so on February 23 and then prorogued the assembly yet again.7
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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