Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a parliamentary manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a parliamentary manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
parliamentary manner; in the context of parliament.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I favor letting a president have the full 4 years; I disfavor parliamentarily weakening the post.
Balkinization 2006
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That question was raised in the debate, and it was answered by observing that to do so would be interpreted parliamentarily as a motion to reconsider, and would therefore be out of order for a committee to bring.
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That question was raised in the debate, and it was answered by observing that to do so would be interpreted parliamentarily as a motion to reconsider, and would therefore be out of order for a committee to bring.
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Pitt suggested that it would be respectful to the Prince of Wales, and expedient in the order of their proceedings, to know parliamentarily, whether he was willing to accept the regency upon the terms imposed by that house.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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Mr. Baxendale was in London, parliamentarily occupied.
A Life's Morning George Gissing 1880
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If the Mountain wished to win in parliament, it should not appeal to arms; if it called to arms in parliament, it should not conduct itself parliamentarily on the street; if the friendly demonstration was meant seriously, it was silly not to foresee that it would meet with a warlike reception; if it was intended for actual war, it was rather original to lay aside the weapons with which war had to be conducted.
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850
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This alarmed so much, that the predetermined vote of acquittal or approbation was forced to be dropped, and to their great astonishment the late cabinet is not thanked parliamentarily for having lost Minorca.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Later, as leader, he stood so far down the benches you couldn't hear what he was saying, but it didn't matter because he was a parliamentarily pointless Liberal Democrat.
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Turkey has been (and remains) key to our strategy of rebuilding Iraq into an effective, parliamentarily self-governing, and tribally integrated counter-balance to Iran.
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Turkey has been (and remains) key to our strategy of rebuilding Iraq into an effective, parliamentarily self-governing, and tribally integrated counter-balance to Iran.
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