Experience shows that formal votes and veto rights in EU summits do not offer complete protection. The EU is a club, not a parliament.

经验表明，欧盟峰会上正式的投票与否决权并不会提供完全地保护。

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Not until the war France in 1697 did William III persuade Parliament to create a professional standing army, and Parliaments price for doing so was to keep the army under tight legislative control.

直到1697年的法国战争，威廉三世才说服国会建立一支专业的常备军，而国会这样做的代价是将军队置于严格的立法控制之下。

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Mrs Merkel has told the German parliament that she is not sure a deal can be reached.

默克尔夫人曾告知德国国会她对是否能达成一个共识并无把握。

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In last Thursday's elections, the Conservatives won the most seats in parliament but not a majority.

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A British lawmaker told parliament in eighteen seventy that Englishmen were leaving their country, not because they wanted to, but because they had to.

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Although the Maoists did not win a clear majority in a hung parliament, they easily secured support from other parties.

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He said there were many occasions when such super-injunctions were "amply justified" but said he could not envisage a court ordering Parliament not to discuss a topic.

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But Ms Hodge hit back, saying: "People like you used this legislation for a purpose not intended by Parliament", a claim Mr McKenna strenuously denied.

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The government reacted cautiously to the report, saying that it would honour its promise of a referendum, but not guaranteeing a vote this parliament.

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