Word: parliament
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...Christmas season," Rey warned newsmen. Before year's end, he expects marathon sessions to wind up the Common Market's interim period of tariff adjustments, to sort out the thorny agriculture support-price issue, and to grant increased supranational powers to the EEC's executive and parliament. Said Rey: "If the solutions are not ready at midnight on Dec. 31, we will stop the clock and 1970 will commence a few hours later." In his opinion, 1970 belongs to Britain...
...turned out, Fianna Fail captured 75 seats in the 144-seat Dail, or Parliament, three more than it had before. The equally conservative opposition party, Fine Gael, won 50 and Labor only 18. The result confirmed Lynch, a compromise choice for his party's leadership in 1966, as Taoiseach (chief of the clan) in his own right-and that the Irish are not yet ready for new departures...
...past century, ten divorce bills have been introduced in Parliament, but none ever got out of committee. Under the 1929 Concordat between Mussolini and the Vatican, the law was even tightened. Up to that time, foreign divorces had been recognized, giving wealthier Italians an escape hatch. The Concordat abolished this exception, and slammed shut the hatch...
...Parliament, Socialists, Communists, Proletarian Socialists, Republicans and Liberals are for the first time united behind the divorce bill. Test votes show them narrowly victorious over Christian Democrats and smaller right-wing opponents. Though 101 Christian...
...well-deserved name for being rebellious, but the fight did go out of a lot of them as their land was stripped away and their leaders were killed or exiled; and some of their self-disgust may stem from not having been rebellious enough. A prose-poem called The Parliament of Clan Thomas (circa 1650) derides the peasantry for selling out to Oliver Cromwell and becoming, coincidentally, Uncle Toms. And after the Rising of 1916, the rebels were actually jeered by their fellow citizens. A few of the noncombatants later came to blather a good fight, but far more...