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- noun A
representative elected by thevoters of anelectoral district to thelower house of aparliament .
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Examples
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Becoming the Member of Parliament was the biggest learning curve in my life.
The Times of India 2010
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Canada follows the British Parliamentary system, where voters elect a local Member of Parliament.
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My conversation with former Ghanaian President John Kufuor, recent recipient of the World Food Prize, and my conversation with the Honorable Samia Nkrumah, current Member of Parliament in Ghana, captured the connection between Africa's Cold-War-dominated past and the current realities of new African politics.
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi: Beyond Famine and War: The Africa That I Saw Dr. Tukufu Zuberi 2011
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My conversation with former Ghanaian President John Kufuor, recent recipient of the World Food Prize, and my conversation with the Honorable Samia Nkrumah, current Member of Parliament in Ghana, captured the connection between Africa's Cold-War-dominated past and the current realities of new African politics.
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi: Beyond Famine and War: The Africa That I Saw Dr. Tukufu Zuberi 2011
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Canada follows the British Parliamentary system, where voters elect a local Member of Parliament.
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He was not even a Member of Parliament when Tony Blair set up the Saville Inquiry in 1998.
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Later, at a meeting of a House of Commons committee, an angry Member of Parliament asked the chairman of the Halifax Bank of Scotland, Dennis Stevenson, “Your highest paid banker, your head of corporate lending, Peter Cummings, was lending £40 billion of your £100 billion loan book to construction and property companies?”
Beyond the Crash Gordon Brown 2010
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Of course, my Member of Parliament is now no longer an anti-airport Liberal Democrat but a millionaire, overseas domicled, Jewish pig farming Conservative who doesn't like science.
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Naveen Jindal, executive chairman and Member of Parliament (Congress Party), has transformed the company from a moderate performer into a star.
India's Dirty War 2010
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Naveen Jindal, executive chairman and Member of Parliament (Congress Party), has transformed the company from a moderate performer into a star.
India's Dirty War 2010
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