prorogations

We do not have successive parliaments have their work interrupted by prorogations.

Don’t Do Mandatory Drug Sentences : Law is Cool 2009

Rare indeed is the Canadian political crisis that comes along in summer or over the long Christmas break - or, for that matter, during prorogations.

Archive 2010-01-01 Edstock 2010

Rare indeed is the Canadian political crisis that comes along in summer or over the long Christmas break - or, for that matter, during prorogations.

Why have a Parliament anyway? the rev. paperboy 2010

Item, that after the prorogations aforesayd, the ambassadors of

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Howbeit at length after sundry prorogations then made and continued on this behalfe, our ambassadors and messengers aforesaid vpon the 28. of August last past, assembling themselues for our part at the towne of Hage in

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

When parliament at length met (after several prorogations) on the 30th

London and the Kingdom - Volume II

This he did by corrupting the Burgesses and continuing them by prorogations for many years.

Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker 1922

Lower House was worn out by repeated prorogations immediately following the opening session, and with the exception of the discussions allowed in 1741 and 1742, Convocation ceased to be a deliberative body until 1854.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

These prorogations allwayes puts an end to all debates and all bills which are not ffinished and brought the king to pass, so that at their meeteing againe they must begin the things they would have or were about the Last tyme anew.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

Strong language about the proposals as cheating and fraudulent was freely used, but nothing that in Mr. Gladstone's view justified one of those high-handed prorogations after the manner of the

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880