So the Canadians, offspring of the British parliamentary tradition, have to be explained away as closet southerners clinging to the border.
The BP executives were testifying before a British parliamentary committee investigating the implications of the Gulf oil disaster on deepwater drilling.
News Corp. is owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, who last year answered questions before a British parliamentary committee looking into press conduct.
Labour MP Keith Vaz, a former chair of the Indian-British parliamentary group, said the government needed to reassure its Indian counterpart that their bilateral relationship was still a priority.
Because it is listed on NASDAQ and subject to Sarbanes Oxley, which requires internal procedures at publicly traded companies to pump out disclosures of material events like those that result in your chief executive being grilled before a British parliamentary committee.
That meant abandoning not just the British crown, but the British system of parliamentary democracy.
British members of a parliamentary committee dealing with the media are now broadening a planned inquiry into privacy law and press regulation.
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He remained an MP after quitting the government when Mr Blair left office and will replace Manchester Central MP Tony Lloyd as the British representative on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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In the parliamentary debate, British government spokesmen insisted on the importance of a UN mandate for military action, and on the narrow goal of disarming Iraq.
However an all-party parliamentary committee of British MPs at a news conference on Tuesday called for sponsors and drivers to withdraw from the race and for the F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to cancel it.
Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the British Overseas Territories, said "we all too aware of the claims by Argentina to all three of our territories in that region".
Their intervention was welcomed by the Labour peer Lord Morris of Manchester - the parliamentary adviser to the Royal British Legion and a long-time campaigner on behalf of the Gulf veterans.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron told a parliamentary committee he hoped to "persuade our European partners" to relax the embargo, which is due to be renewed in May, "but if we can't, then it's not out of the question we might have to do things in our own way".
In the busy parliamentary year of 1967, the British legalized both abortion and homosexual behavior, for instance.
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Portcullis House, a parliamentary complex whose bland, airport-like atrium has become the 21st-century agora of British politics, pullulates with MPs from the 2010 Tory intake (who make up nearly half the parliamentary party).
My initial stomping ground was British Parliament, serving as Policy Director to the largest All Party Parliamentary Group.
Mr Howard will make his speech during a visit to support Tory Parliamentary hopefuls Robert Light and Sayeeda Warsi - "the first British Muslim woman" selected to run for MP as a Conservative candidate.
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And yet Mr Blair, with his parliamentary majority of 176, is setting off a bigger bang under the British constitution than Guy Fawkes ever contrived with all his sacks of gunpowder.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague was to release more information Friday from Australia, and a parliamentary statement will be issued, the official said.
The phone-hacking accusations have reverberated through the top levels of British politics and journalism, led to the closing of a major tabloid and prompted a parliamentary committee to issue damning criticism of Murdoch.
's attempts to buy the 60.9% of broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC that it doesn't own, promising to hold a Parliamentary vote to delay the deal until investigations into the News of the World are finished.
He is particularly withering in his scorn for what he sees as the mystifications of the English parliamentary tradition (allegedly nurtured since the Middle Ages), the trumpery of modern British monarchy, the obscurities of English common law and the mediocrity of the current batch of British politicians.
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