During the Era of Silence political parties were banned and the parliament was not in session between 1934 and 1938 as the country was ruled by decree by Konstantin Päts, who was elected as the first President of Estonia in 1938.

During the English Civil War ( 1642 – 45 ) the town sided with parliament but was largely unaffected by the conflict.

During this time, the Tories and Labour had exchanged places at the top of the opinion polls on numerous occasions, and by the time of the election most opinion polls were showing a slim Labour lead, which most observers predicted would translate into a hung parliament or a narrow Labour victory at the election.

During these disorders, the Council of State still assembled at the usual place and the " Lord President Bradshaw John Bradshaw ( judge ), who was present, though by long sickness very weak and much extenuated, yet animated by his ardent zeal and constant affection to the common cause, upon hearing Col Syndenham's justifications of the proceedings of the army in again disrupting parliament, stood up and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that detestable action, and telling the council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to sit there to hear his great name so openly blasphemed ; and thereupon departed to his lodgings, and withdrew himself from public employment.

* During the second parliament, three parties ( Free Trade, Protectionist and Labor ) had roughly equal representation in the House of Representatives.

During the Era of Silence, political parties were banned and the parliament was not in session between 1934 and 1938 as the country was ruled by decree by Konstantin Päts.

During this period, membership in the English baronage, formerly a somewhat indistinct group, became restricted to those who received a personal summons to parliament.

During his rule, de Montfort called the first directly elected parliament in medieval Europe.

During the Yeltsin years in the 1990s, these groups were well organized, voicing their opposition to reform through strong trade unions, associations of directors of state-owned firms, and political parties in the popularly elected parliament whose primary constituencies were among those vulnerable to reform.

During the 1990s, the absence of absolute majorities in the Spanish parliament made governments reliant on support from the various nationalist parties ( Catalan, Basque, Canary Islands, etc.

During the 1890s, two consecutive sessions of the Norwegian parliament voted to abolish the badge, but the decision was overruled by royal veto.

During Yanukovych's term he has been accused of tightening of press restrictions and a renewed effort in the parliament to limit freedom of assembly.

During his first appearances in parliament, he talked to the government through her: he would whisper the questions he had to her, and she would ask them loud and clear.

During its period in parliament 1982-1986 it had trouble positioning itself between the small left parties ( PSP, PPR and CPN ), the PvdA and the CDA.

During his early years in parliament, Ryti succeed in bringing order to the government budget.

During the 17th century, two bills came before parliament to make sections of the river navigable.

During the 2005-10 parliament she was a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.

During his time in the Union parliament, Cartier introduced a bill in 1852 for the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada.

During his tenure as Prime Minister his seat in parliament had been occupied by Vidar Brynsplass.

During his years in parliament and in various governments, he was respected by his political allies and opponents alike, but never gained the popularity of other prime ministers in his time in office.

During this time, he oversaw the drafting of Afghanistan's constitution, was involved with the country's first elections, and helped to organize the first meeting of Afghanistan's parliament ( the Loya Jirga ).

During those eleven years, King Charles ruled without parliament.

During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis Boris Yeltsin ordered the use of tanks against the Russian parliament which opposed him.

During the Russian Revolution of 1905, Witte advocated the creation of an elected parliament, the formation of a constitutional monarchy, and the establishment of a Bill of Rights through the October Manifesto.

During the reigns of Louis XVIII, Charles X and Louis Philippe, the Chancellor of France presided over the Chamber of Peers, the upper house of the royal French parliament.

During the hearing, the judge assesses the offense, the mitigating factors, and the defendant's character, and passes sentence.

During his stay at home, Mao's interest in the revolution was rekindled after hearing of the 1925 uprisings in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

During the five hour hearing on February 23, 1761, Otis vehemently denounced English colonial policies, including their sanction of general warrants and writs of assistance.

During the Cold War, electromagnetic hearing was clinically studied in the United States for applications including covert message transmission and use as a non-lethal weapon.

During the sentencing hearing on February 11, Guandique said to Levy's family, " I am sorry for what happened to your daughter ," and insisted on his innocence.

During the Franco-Prussian War, Gautier made his way back to Paris upon hearing of the Prussian advance on the capital.

During the battle, Cassius commits suicide after hearing of the capture of his best friend, Titinius.

During his sanity hearing, things look bleak for Deeds, especially since he initially refuses to defend himself.

During the court hearing Katz conceded by issuing a statement retracting his own work.

During a pre-trial hearing, a Laramie police officer testified that the violence against Shepard was due to how the attacker " about gays ," per an interview of the attacker's girlfriend who said she received that explanation.

During the custody hearing, both Ted and Joanna are unprepared for the brutal character assassinations that their lawyers unleash on the other.

During the April 25, 2007 U. S. House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs hearing on Puerto Rico's political status, he was seen treating McClintock very cordially, which suggests that the tension levels between them had eased somewhat, suggesting he may have wanted to help reunite the party as it prepares for the 2008 electoral campaign against incumbent Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá and assume a different non-elective role within the statehood movement to which he has devoted nearly two decades of his life.

During the hearing Hammett refused to provide the information the government wanted, specifically, the list of contributors to the bail fund, " people who might be sympathetic enough to harbor the fugitives.

During this period he could really do no wrong-loaded with riches and honours, he was so famous and so formidable as a performer that his rival and friend, the castrato Gioacchino Conti (" Gizziello ") is said to have fainted away from sheer despondency on hearing him sing.

During a time in Mexico he was influenced by hearing of the execution squads established by Porfirio Diaz, and became a supporter of Emiliano Zapata.

During the 12-hour hearing on the final day, Darrow gave a speech that has been called the finest of his career.

During the annulment hearing, Henry VIII looked at the Hebrew version of Leviticus 20: 21, which states that it is unclean for a man to take his brother's wife and that, if a man did, the union would be childless.

During a court hearing on a drug possession charge, it was argued by his Philadelphia public defender that Young had symptoms of chronic traumatic brain injury ( due to the sport ).

" During that hearing, he also stated: " Some people might say — and I think I would sympathise with this view — that perhaps if we had delayed the ceasefire by a few more days, we might have got rid of Saddam Hussein.

During their honeymoon, the couple kept hearing a woodpecker incessantly pecking on their roof.

During the summer of 1874, Smetana began to lose his hearing, and total deafness quite quickly followed ; he woke on the morning of 20 October to find himself completely unable to hear anything.

During this period, he lived in Chester, hearing music in the cathedral and also becoming familiar with Welsh folksong.

During an absence of Jenners, Minton's allies worked to have the hearing request dropped and the Judicial Committee sent the measure to the full Senate in a vote of 9 to 2.

During her illness, Emily was comforted by their pet cat Peter, a stray black and white kitten that they took into their home, after hearing him mewing in the rain one night.