But the Parliamentary committee said the professor was not guilty of wrongdoing in the incident.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

He had this thing called the drunken assembly, which was in a way kind of a mockery of parliamentary representations where his cronies would come and just get wasted and would make all sorts of flamboyant proclamations that seemed to represent what a real parliament would do.

他有个被戏称为"酒鬼议会"的东西,这个"酒鬼议会"是对议会代表们的嘲弄,他们也会开会,但不过是浪费时间,还发表一些冠冕堂皇的声明,就好像一个真正的议会似的

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In these elections, the former-opposition Movement for Democratic Change defeated President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in the parliamentary vote.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

In the June 7 parliamentary elections, Mr.Hariri's coalition won 71 of 128 parliament seats, while Hezbollah and its allies took 57.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Joao Soares,is President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which facilitates dialogue among members of the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

That is the largest parliamentary majority since Hungary's first democratic elections in 1990, following decades of Communist rule.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Larijani met with Western parliamentary leaders in Geneva, while Muttaqi addressed an international conference on Afghanistan in Kabul.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The opposition Democratic Alliance won 67 parliamentary seats, polling 16 percent of the vote or four points more than in the last elections.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Speaking in Amharic through an interpreter, Mr.Meles said the agreement would guarantee a level playing field for all competitors in upcoming parliamentary elections.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

The government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote in March.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

He told a parliamentary committee that a crackdown on electoral offenders could be an important step in the conduct of free and fair elections in Nigeria.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

The 39-year-old Hariri came to power after parliamentary elections in June.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

South Korean parliamentary opponents of a major free-trade deal with the United States got physical in a committee hearing room, but failed to prevent the deal from advancing toward ratification.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Political tensions have heightened in Iraq because its newly-elected parliament is still deadlocked over a choice for a new prime minister and government, nearly five months after the parliamentary election in March.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Sitting next to Mr.Meles at the signing ceremony were three top members of the old Coalition for Unity and Democracy,or CUD which mounted a powerful challenge to Mr.Meles party in the 2005 parliamentary vote.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Nash says this training will be especially important because Iraqi forces will handle security during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins in a few weeks, and parliamentary elections slated for January.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Until now, both the ruling March 14th coalition and the Hezbollah-led opposition have been running neck in neck in opinion polls and analysts were expecting the results of parliamentary elections to be extremely close.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Though Iraq is now grappling with political uncertainty five months after a parliamentary election, and with bomb attacks in Baghdad and other cities, the president and others in his administration are highlighting the coming formal end of the U.S.combat mission.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Three times in recent weeks, Republicans have used parliamentary tactics in the Senate to block the extension of benefits, angering the president at a time when he is trying to move this and other legislation through Congress before the congressional recess.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

"David Miliband said a while back, having said 54 times that in answer to parliamentary questions that nobody had gone through Diego Garcia, he said on the 55th time that actually the U.S.had now told him that people had gone through Diego Garcia.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

But I think Iran needs to do a much better job of respecting Iraq's sovereignty and they should start by ceasing to provide weaponry to various extremist groups in Iraq" Looking ahead to parliamentary elections in Iraq in January, Georgia Democrat David Scott and Ambassador Hill had this exchange about the question of a possible referendum on the U.S.military presence in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10