parliamentarian
noun
Examples of parliamentarian in a Sentence
Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
Similar moves are also afoot in Tanzania and South Sudan, parliamentarians in those nations told Reuters, revealing for the first time a broad anti-LGBTQ legislative drive across East Africa.
—Reuters, NBC News, 23 June 2023
In reality, Nada told me, the only person on his call history who might actually have been an Islamist was an Algerian parliamentarian and the operator of a language school in Milan.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
On Thursday, Eva Kaili, the Greek parliamentarian who until last week was one of the body’s 14 vice presidents, will appear in a Belgian court for a pretrial hearing.
—Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
Once things settled down, the parliamentarian's staff found the formal script for such moments -- Womack had, on instinct, delivered the almost perfect response.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
No one was injured in the blast at Kuibyshev oil refinery Friday, which was caused by an explosive device, according to a Telegram post from Russian parliamentarian Aleksandr Hinstein, but a worker from Ukraine was detained by Russian security services trying to leave the country.
—John Hudson, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
Lawmaker Taiga Ishikawa is Japan’s first openly gay parliamentarian.
—Mari Yamaguchi, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
The real estate agent straightened and smoothed his hair with his hands, then broke into a wide grin as a female parliamentarian entered with two bodyguards in tow.
—Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
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1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Note: The parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives is appointed by the Speaker of the House. The Secretary of the Senate appoints the Senate's parliamentarian with approval of the majority leader.
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