During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

During the period of the Solidarity Electoral Action ’ s government, Leszek Miller was in charge of the parliamentary opposition, leading the political fight with the governing party.

During this decade, MK began contesting Westminster parliamentary seats as well as local government ones.

During elections in March 1994, power passed from Vere Bird to his son, Lester Bird, but remained within the ALP which won 11 of the 17 parliamentary seats.

During parliamentary elections in 1999, the seats in Riigikogu were divided as follows: the Centre Party received 28, the Pro Patria Union 18, the Reform Party 18, the People's Party Moderates ( election cartel between Moderates and People's Party ) 17, Coalition Party 7, Country People's Party ( now People's Union ) 7, United People's Party's electoral cartel 6 seats.

During the whole of the 1708 to 1868 period, and until 1950, the burghs of Ayr and Irvine were parliamentary burghs, represented as components of Ayr Burghs.

During this period, Fox became possibly the most prominent and vituperative parliamentary critic of Lord North and the conduct of the American war.

During the 1960s, the ceremony of assenting by Commission was discontinued, and is now only employed once a year, at the end of the annual parliamentary session.

During the campaign, the National Coalition made up some ground but the Fianna Fáil manifesto of give away promises ( no rates, no car tax, and so forth ) was far too attractive for the electorate and the National Coalition was heavily defeated, with Fianna Fáil winning an unprecedented massive parliamentary majority.

During the official memorial ceremony the next day Chancellor Joseph Wirth from the Centre Party held a soon to be famous speech, in which, while pointing to the right side of the parliamentary floor, he used a well known formula by Philipp Scheidemann: " There is the enemy-and there is no doubt about it: This enemy is on the right!

During these early years he opened new perspectives of law-all the while disowning his innovative ideas under a variety of pseudonyms lest he lose his coveted post as parliamentary librarian.

During his first year Parnell remained a reserved observer of parliamentary proceedings.

During the special plenary parliamentary debate of July 28, 2006, on the naturalization process of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, D66 supported a motion of no confidence against minister Rita Verdonk.

During that time, the paper supported parliamentary reform, but opposed a broader franchise and the Chartist leadership.

During 1869, he presented himself as the candidate of the liberal opposition at the parliamentary election for Meaux.

During his first term, Jagland was a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, and also served as the fractional leader for the parliamentary group of the party.

During the next few years, the government was gradually transformed into a full parliamentary system.

During the early 1950s, Pibunsongkhram's government had become increasingly corrupt, and the parliamentary election of 1957 was blatantly rigged to keep Pibunsongkhram in power.

During the early 19th century, however, attempts by prime ministers such as Robert Peel to govern in the absence of a parliamentary majority proved unsuccessful, and by the mid-19th century, the ability of a motion of no confidence to break a government was firmly established in the UK.

During the parliamentary recess, however, the executive remained in the hands of the Privy Council, which was responsible to the Riksdag alone.

During its history, the party has suffered slow but steady decline in adherence, following the decline of the percentage of Swedish-speaking population: in 1907 it got 12 % of national votes, after World War II 7 % and in the 2011 parliamentary election 4. 3 % ( 9 MPs ).

During the long years in opposition the party's support had grown steadily and in 1987 it attained the best parliamentary election result in its history.

During Holkeri's time in office, the Finnish economy suffered a downturn, precipitated by a coincidence of factors, and the 1991 parliamentary election resulted in a loss.

During a debate on defence a year later Attlee declared " We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves.

During these years, she involved herself in a renowned literary debate, the “ Querelle du Roman de la Rose ”.

During the 1993 policy debate, the National Defense Research Institute prepared a study for the Office of the Secretary of Defense published as Sexual Orientation and U. S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment.

During the preservation / conservation debate the term preservationist become to be seen as a pejorative term.

During the censure debate, Adams said that he took delight in the fact that southerners would forever remember him as " the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed ".

During the Islamic Golden Age, there was a logical debate among Islamic philosophers and jurists whether the term Qiyas refers to analogical reasoning, inductive reasoning or categorical syllogism.

During the debate over his amateur status, Nurmi was joked to have " the lowest heartbeat and the highest asking price of any athlete in the world.

During the twentieth century the relationship between science and spirituality has been influenced both by Freudian psychology, which has accentuated the boundaries between the two areas by accentuating individualism and secularism, and by developments in particle physics, which reopened the debate about complementarity between scientific and religious discourse and rekindled for many an interest in holistic conceptions of reality.

During the last ten years, different organizations have tried to measure and monitor the proximity to what they consider sustainability by implementing what has been called sustainability metrics and indices. This has engendered considerable political debate about what is being measured.

During that debate Marshall threatened to expel certain senators from the chamber for their raucous behavior, but did not carry through on the threat.

During a Senate debate in 1917, as Senator Joseph L. Bristow cataloged a long list of what he felt the country needed, Marshall leaned over to one of his clerks and said, " What this country needs is more of this ; what this country needs is more of that.

During the original debate over the amendment Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan — the author of the Citizenship Clause — described the clause as having the same content, despite different wording, as the earlier Civil Rights Act of 1866, namely, that it excludes Native Americans who maintain their tribal ties and " persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.

During the 1990s much debate has centered on the different functions of the ventrolateral ( i. e., lower areas ) and the dorsolateral ( higher ) areas of the PFC.

During early shuttle development there was great debate about the optimal shuttle design that best balanced capability, development cost and operating cost.

During the 1960s and 1970s psychosurgery became the subject of increasing public concern and debate, culminating in the US with congressional hearings.

They have to be paid " During the congressional debate on impeachment, some believed that impeachment required a criminally indictable offense.

During the debate over the 2006 extension, some Republican members of Congress objected to renewing the preclearance requirement ( the Act's primary enforcement provision ), arguing that it represents an overreach of federal power and places unwarranted bureaucratic demands on Southern states that have long since abandoned the discriminatory practices the Act was meant to eradicate.

During the 1950s, there was considerable debate over whether " clean " bombs could be produced and these were often contrasted with " dirty " bombs.

During a debate on the legality on the 11 January 2012, UK Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes Mark Lancaster, Conservative, stated importation of Khat into the UK stands at 10 tonnes every week.

During the debate, the contribution of British airborne forces in the Far Eastern theatres was perhaps underplayed, to the long term detriment of the argument.

During the debate in 1987 over a free trade agreement between Canada and the United States, Atwood spoke out against the deal, including an essay she wrote opposing the agreement.

During the televised leaders ' debate, Turner attacked PC leader Brian Mulroney over the patronage machine that the latter had allegedly set up in anticipation of victory, comparing it to the old days of the Union Nationale in Quebec.

During a debate in Parliament on 2 March 1978 Michael Foot labelled Tebbit a " semi-house-trained polecat " in response to a question from Tebbit asking if he accepted that the legislation being proposed that made it compulsory for people to join a Trade Union was an act of Fascism.

During the Bill Oakley / Josh Weinstein era, they still tried to keep his sexuality mysterious and there was debate among the writers about his orientation.

During this period a debate began on what operating system to run on the new machines.