parliamentary
/ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/ adjective C1- Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament. · Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.
- Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament. · The UK is a parliamentary democracy.
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But when I tell you that there is some account of the taking of the place by a parliamentary colonel in 1644, of the concealment of Charles for several days in the course of the Civil War, and finally of a visit there by the second George, you will admit that there are various associations of interest connected with this ancient house.”
Danglars had, however, protested against showing himself in a ministerial box, declaring that his political principles, and his parliamentary position as member of the opposition party would not permit him so to commit himself; the baroness had, therefore, despatched a note to Lucien Debray, bidding him call for them, it being wholly impossible for her to go alone with Eugénie to the opera.
Overcoming entrenched bureaucratic inertia and endless parliamentary debates, they hastily passed a bill to completely overhaul the metropolitan drainage system in record time.
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