How to Use parliamentary in a Sentence

parliamentary

adjective

• In the Netherlands, the far right won the most parliamentary seats in last year’s election.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
• The planned strike has led to the closure of streets and schools, as well as the postponement of the day’s parliamentary session.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
• The State Opening has been used to mark the start of a parliamentary year since the late 14th century.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 July 2024
• On Tuesday, the King kicked off the first start of the parliamentary year of his royal reign at the Palace of Westminster.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
• About a third of young people don’t vote in the first round of parliamentary elections.
  — Nadia Beard, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• She was met with cheers and applause in the packed parliamentary chamber.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Lai won with just a bit more than 40 percent of the vote, and the DPP failed to win a parliamentary majority.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• That means that vote after vote over the next two years will likely teeter on a parliamentary cliff.
  — Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
• All three parties were part of the pro-Sisi bloc during the last parliamentary elections.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• In 1945, women in France were allowed to vote in parliamentary elections for the first time.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• That led President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election for the end of the month.
  — Simon Constable, Fox News, 16 June 2024
• Popova failed to win a seat in parliamentary elections in 2021.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard and Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
• This is the nature of the parliamentary regime of a multi-party coalition.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
• The move comes ahead of parliamentary elections that must be held no later than April in Greenland.
  — Gqlshare, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
• Carney is expected to call a parliamentary election by the end of the week, to take place in late April or early May.
  — Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
• If this country had a more parliamentary system, a snap election would have already been called, and the House GOP may well have lost it.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2023
• Berlinguer nearly brought the PCI to power in the Italian parliamentary elections of 1976.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 May 2025
• Berlinguer nearly brought the PCI to power in the Italian parliamentary elections of 1976.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
• Has been a member of the parliamentary procedures team for four years.
  — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
• In the queen's stead, her son Prince Charles will read her speech, which sets out the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
• Although the bloc supported by the militias won the most votes, its share of the country’s 329 parliamentary seats dropped by almost two-thirds.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2021
• Although the bloc supported by the militias won the most votes, its share of the country’s 329 parliamentary seats dropped by almost two-thirds.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• There, the scene has devolved over the past week into the parliamentary equivalent of a Superfund site.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• There will be a push to vote before EU parliamentary elections in early June 2024.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
• Israel’s parliamentary system: The Supreme Court is viewed as the sole check on lawmakers and the prime minister.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• The crackdown comes months ahead of Palestine’s first parliamentary election in 15 years.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• The scandal took place just months before the Oct 3-4 parliamentary election.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
• On Monday, the first-day of the special session, the House stumbled out of the gate as a proposal to suspend the rules to speed up the parliamentary process failed on multiple voice votes.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2023
• The vote’s failure marks a setback for President Lai Ching-te, who has adopted a tougher stance toward China and hoped to use the recalls to gain a parliamentary majority.
  — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 30 July 2025
• The math was simple: The parties in Netanyahu’s coalition received just 48.4 percent of the vote and attained a parliamentary majority only through a quirk of the Israeli electoral system.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 29 July 2025