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period and parliamentary
After an initially conservative period, strong liberal sentiments arose, so that in the 1848 constitution the country was made a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch.
What followed was the Second Republic's short ( 1921 – 1926 ) and turbulent period of constitutional order and parliamentary democracy.
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.
For example, the Crown Estate produced £ 200 million for the Treasury in the financial year 2007 – 8, whereas reported parliamentary funding for the monarch was £ 40 million during the same period, and republicans estimate that the real cost of the monarchy including security is between £ 134 and 184 million a year.
Throughout the gag period, Adams ' " superior talent in using and abusing parliamentary rules " and skill in baiting his enemies into making mistakes, enabled him to evade the rule.
They are permitted just a few questions each week in question period and those MPs cannot sit as voting members on parliamentary committees.
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.
The members of the present unicameral Parliament of Norway are chosen by popular vote at the beginning of each parliamentary period of four years.
During this period, Fox became possibly the most prominent and vituperative parliamentary critic of Lord North and the conduct of the American war.
Since Japan's period of parliamentary democracy began, there has been controversy over the performance of the " Kimigayo " anthem at public ceremonies.
Like all the aristocrats of the period, for the duration of the Social Season and parliamentary sessions, he and his family resided in state in a Dublin residence.
The period of the social season also coincided with the parliamentary sessions of the Irish House of Lords, which many of the peers in Dublin would be attending.
He also oversaw Blair's first parliamentary defeat, when the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats and sufficient Labour Party rebels voted against government proposals to extend to 90 days the period that terror suspects could be held for without charge.
This period is often called Taishō democracy, which represented the move away from Japan's traditional system of government and toward something that could be called a real parliamentary democracy.
" With the death of Kallay the policy was abandoned and in 1907 the name was changed to Serbo-Croatian, and this was the official language of Bosnia and Herzegovina throughout the parliamentary period, from the annexation until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after World War I.
It initiated a period of parliamentary government and political freedom interrupted by the outbreak of the liberation wars.
A minority government led by Gro Harlem Brundtland took over through the rest of the parliamentary period.
Subsequently, during a period when Queensland had a “ Premier who is not leader ” and the governing party had a “ Leader who is not Premier ”, there was speculation on the potential exercise of vice-regal reserve power by Campbell, in dismissing the premier in the absence of a parliamentary motion of no confidence.
Caretaker governments may also be put in place when a government in a parliamentary system is defeated in a motion of no confidence, or in the case when the house to which the government is responsible is dissolved, to rule the country for an interim period until an election is held and a new government is formed.
Ebert always regarded the institutions of parliamentary democracy as a more legitimate expression of the will of the people ; workers ' councils, as a product of the revolution, were only justified in exercising power for a transitive period.
Though his fame has become dimmed in comparison with that of Shaftesbury, Russell and Sidney, he was equally conspicuous in the parliamentary proceedings of Charles II's reign, and left a more permanent mark than any of them on the constitutional changes of the period.
Bos served as opposition leader during the parliamentary period of the Cabinets Balkenende II and III.
Its representative parliamentary monarchy also stood in stark contrast to the mix of dictatorships and instability endemic in the other nations of South America during this period.
Although very rare, minority governments can be formed during the formation period of a Dutch cabinet, since an election might not result in a coalition that can be agreed upon by the parliamentary parties.
Shaftesbury moved closer to the parliamentary opposition during this period, and became a supporter of ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

period and gathering
The Jeulmun was a period of hunting, gathering, and small-scale cultivation of plants.
Thus a new period in Belarusian history started, with all its lands annexed by the Russian Empire, in a continuing endeavor of Russian tsars of " gathering the Rus lands " started after the liberation from the Tatar yoke by Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia.
The first inhabitants of this early post-glacial landscape in the so-called Boreal period, were very small and scattered populations living from hunting of reindeer and other land mammals and gathering whatever fruits the climate was able to offer.
Although the complete destruction of every version of the Earth in every possible timeline, along with the death of nearly all the regular characters, would seem to make a continuation extremely unlikely, Adams had remarked that the afterlife-enhanced state of the regulars merely meant he would not have to waste time at the beginning of the next book gathering them together or explaining what they'd been up to in the intervening period.
In the period following Radical Reconstruction, Ed Wood, Sr. began hosting gathering of the Prince Hall Freemasonry, of which he was a founding member of the Arkansas Lodge and held rank of highest degree.
During the Second Temple period, Jewish sages debated whether the occasion of the gathering of a parent's bones for a secondary burial was a day of sorrow or rejoicing ; it was resolved that it was a day of fasting in the morning and feasting in the afternoon.
As in most other Japanese regions, prehistoric society in Yamanashi progressed though the hunting, fishing and gathering stage of the Jōmon period, then the rice-producing stage of the Yayoi period and subsequent village and regional formation.
From the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period, hunting and gathering cultures known as the Sangoan occupied southern Africa in areas where annual rainfall is less than a metre ( 1000 mm ; 40 in ), and today's San and Khoi people resemble the ancient Sangoan skeletal remains.
Starting at the transition between the Middle to Upper Paleolithic period, some 80, 000 to 70, 000 years ago, some hunter-gatherers bands began to specialize, concentrating on hunting a smaller selection of ( often larger than had previously been hunted ) game and gathering a smaller selection of food.
The ceremony was attended by a large gathering of Clark's descendants, reenactors in period dress, and leaders from the Osage Nation and the Lemhi band of the Shoshone.
A sesshin ( 接心, 摂心, 攝心 ), literally " touching the heart-mind " ( but frequently mistranslated in Western Zen centers as " gathering the mind "), is a period of intensive meditation ( zazen ) in a Zen monastery.
A person officiating or presiding over the gathering will be responsible for the declaring and timing of the period of silence.
The hot springs () were known since the Roman period, when the town was Aquae Flaviae ; the Waters of Flavius were an important social gathering point, but fell into disuse as the town was slowly abandoned by attacks.
Three years after Mabo died, that being the traditional mourning period for the people of Murray Island, a gathering was held in Townsville for a memorial service.
Left to operate for a period, the cotton-like product builds up on the inside walls of the larger bowl, at which point the machine operator twirls a stick, cone, or their hands around the rim of the large catching bowl, gathering the sugar strands into portions which are served on stick or cone, or in plastic bags.
The prosecution had asked for, and received, at least a three month period for the gathering and translation ( if applicable ) of the necessary evidence.
The Abwehr also made attempts to foster intelligence gathering links with the IRA, but found that the IRA was in no condition to be of serious use — these attempts were to occur during the period 1939 – 1943.
Analysis of Sahagún's research activities in this earlier period indicates that he was developing and evaluating his own methods for gathering and verifying this information.
It also marked a period of increased intelligence gathering.
The peoples who used Sangoan tools were hunting and gathering cultures, also known as the Sangoan, who occupied southern Africa in areas where annual rainfall is less than 40 inches ( 1016 mm ) from the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period.
The term also is commonly used to describe the gathering of work colleagues at a restaurant or bar after work hours, possibly outside the usual period.
Sled dogs from Sisimiut work only during winter, gathering strength during the summer period of inactivity.
Instead of gathering together all the Catholic parents and children and escorting them to the school as a group, the police specified a time period in which parents could walk to the school.

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