Example sentences of "presented to parliament " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swinton 's idea for three companies was also presented to parliament in a White Paper , but the general election of July 1945 brought Labour to power before any of the wartime government 's plans could be implemented . |
| 2 | ‘ The most devastating evidence about the scale of the problem was ‘ presented to Parliament ’ in 1980 . |
| 3 | As is explained later in the book , despite the high-sounding words with which the Bill was presented to Parliament it is a complete sham . |
| 4 | The recommendations of the Royal Commission 's report of 1889 ( Chapter 6 ) were embodied in a Bill which was presented to Parliament , and needed to be introduced four times before it was finally accepted onto the Statute book . |
| 5 | This was presented to parliament in June 1988 . |
| 6 | In the circumstances , another Bill was presented to Parliament , entitled The Croydon & District Electric Tramways ( Extensions ) Bill 1903 , offering alternative routings to those thrown out in the 1902 Act . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the Social Security Act presented to Parliament in 1986 attempts to redefine youth as all those under the age of 25 . |
| 8 | The details have already been completed , but the proposed law has not yet been presented to parliament . |
| 9 | But the issue touched many more than just the activists in the women 's movement : a petition demanding that the allowance ‘ be given to every mother for every child ’ was presented to Parliament with 300 000 signatures ( Fleming , 1973 ; Castle , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 11 | Few of the proposals were contentious , leaving the debate to be sharpened by the emotive issues of corporal punishment , which was included in the Bill as presented to Parliament on Second Reading , and the death penalty , which was not . |
| 12 | So it was that the most innovative proposal in the Criminal Justice Bill presented to Parliament on 10 November 1971 stemmed not from the Tory manifesto , nor from Crime Has No Boundaries , but from an official committee chaired by a Labour life-peer . |
| 13 | None of the disapplications and modifications now permissible under Sections 17 , 18 and 19 of the Act were in the Bill when first presented to Parliament . |
| 14 | The accounts presented to Parliament , in the form of Estimates and Appropriation Accounts , are statements of cash receipts and payments during a year regardless of whether they are in respect of current or capital expenditure and , if current , whether benefit of the related goods and services was received during that year . |
| 15 | These are normally presented to Parliament in the previous December , along with the winter supplementary estimates for the previous year . |
| 16 | The decisions in the annual survey , as they relate to the year ahead , can be translated directly into the cash limits and estimates presented to Parliament , without revaluation from one price basis to another . |
| 17 | The government 's formal reply to these reports is presented to Parliament by the Treasury in the form of a Treasury minute , and the reports and minutes are debated annually in the House . |
| 18 | My noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , at p. 112b , after pointing out that the draft Regulations were not capable of being amended when presented to Parliament , said that it was ‘ entirely legitimate for the purpose of ascertaining the intention of Parliament to take into account the terms in which the draft was presented by the responsible minister and which formed the basis of its acceptance . ’ |
| 19 | However , the abolition legislation had not at that stage been passed or even presented to Parliament . |
| 20 | These enactments , particularly when seen alongside pledges in the Conservative Party 's 1987 general election manifesto ( and subsequently presented to Parliament ) to allow schools and council tenants to ‘ opt out ’ of local authority control , would seem to envisage a diminished role for elected local government . |
| 21 | The decisions in the annual survey , as they relate to the year ahead , can be translated directly into the cash limits and estimates presented to Parliament , without revaluation from one price basis to another ( HM Treasury , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | As early as 1845 he surveyed a line for a railway crossing the Grampian mountains between Perth and Inverness , but the Bill presented to Parliament , requesting permission , was defeated in 1846 on the grounds of impracticality . |
| 23 | Although this is true of the appropriation accounts presented to Parliament in respect of the NHS as a whole , the way that the constituent health service bodies account for capital has been the subject of substantial change . |
| 24 | ‘ This is an historic measure and one of the most important reforms this Government has ever presented to Parliament … |
| 25 | Iliescu also announced on June 20 the nomination of Petre Roman as Prime Minister , calling on him to form a new government , which was presented to parliament on June 28 . |
| 26 | A detailed five-year development plan , drawn up after lengthy consultations with a wide section of interests , was presented to parliament in early June 1990 . |
| 27 | The November 1989 budget presented to parliament by Finance Minister Paul Pora was unexpectedly expansionist given the closure of the Panguna copper mine or Bougainville which had previously provided about 17 per cent of national revenue and 40 per cent of foreign exchange earnings . |
| 28 | The 1990 budget was presented to parliament on Nov. 17 , 1989 , by then Finance Minister Said Ahmed Said Ali . |
| 29 | Andreotti promised on April 17 that draft legislation allowing certain public-sector enterprises to offer shares would be presented to parliament within 30 days . |
| 30 | The budget for the fiscal year ending on March 31 , 1991 , was presented to parliament on Feb. 20 , 1990 [ see p. 37415 ] . |