prorogue

How To Use prorogue In A Sentence

• Having only a confused, frightened sense of our one national leader, say "prorogue" and "G20" and frown, soundlessly. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• If a party with a Parliamentary majority, such as Chrétien's did, prorogues, the other parties can do nothing. Walk, chew gum - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca
• It seems unbelievable that the Conservative government has prorogued Parliament for the second time in a year. Archive 2010-01-01
• -- In this word the diphthong ue is entirely sunk, as well as in the words dialogue, synagogue, &c; out in the words prorogue, disembogue, &c., it is not entirely sunk, for it has the evident effect of lengthening the final syllable. The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to
• Dinwiddie could be a gruff man, and he guarded his prerogatives, so he had one conflict after another with the House of Burgesses, which he usually prorogued dismissed if it did not do his bidding. George Washington’s First War
• The legislature moved to prorogue the present session.
• That's exactly what Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper did in early 2010, employing a time-honored Canadian political tactic known as a "prorogue" to shut down parliamentary debate.
• The only way to do that would be to "prorogue" the House completely. Michael Garrity: Why Americans Should be Following Canadian Politics Right Now
• The technical definition of 'prorogue' is as follows: Jeffrey Feldman: Oy, Canada! Conservative PM Uses Rare Act To Suspend Parliament
• How often, alas! have the assemblies been prorogued, raised, and dissolved, by magistratical authority, and sometimes without nomination of another diet? Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive