【Vocabulary】- 市政厅 shìzhèngtīngtown hall- 栋 dònga measure word (for buildings)- 古老 gǔlǎoold, ancient- 议会 yìhuìparliament- 议员 yìyuánmember ofparliament Belfast's history is not very peaceful. There are two different...
(Placename) Isle of Man an island in the British Isles, in the Irish Sea between Cumbria and Northern Ireland: a UK Crown Dependency (but not part of the United Kingdom), with its own ancient parliament, the Court of Tynwald; a dependency of Norway until 1266, when for a time it cam...
“The first duty of a member of parliament is to do what he thinks in his faithful and disinterested judgement is right and necessary for the honour and safety of Great Britain.” There was a popular cry following the referendum of “What part of democracy is it you don’t understand?”...
(Placename) Isle of Man an island in the British Isles, in the Irish Sea between Cumbria and Northern Ireland: a UK Crown Dependency (but not part of the United Kingdom), with its own ancient parliament, the Court of Tynwald; a dependency of Norway until 1266, when for a time it cam...
3) “Robbie and Doug”: This is a Canadian reality show starring famous author Robertson Davies, who almost won a Nobel prize, and Doug Henning, a Canadian magician who ran for Parliament as a candidate for the ‘Natural Law Party’, which believes that all the problems in the world can...
The abolition of the Irish Parliament in 1800 inflicted major macroeconomic damage to the island, set Dublin into a spiral of decline, and denied the middleclass jobs in the apparatus of national government. There were few options for a career outside the British Empire and emigrants followed ...
At best, murdered Member of Parliament Jo Cox was a humanitarian in the Hollywood celebrity mold. Syria, Darfur, etc. Her concerns for refugees or “pro-democracy” collateral ony promoted neoliberal interventionism. The British MP’s martyrdom while opposing the BREXIT was beautifully parlayed into...
Oscar, who is aged 15 and attends Marden High School, becomes North Tyneside's Young Member of UK Parliament (MYP) after winning 3,100 votes. Tyneside teens voted in ASYOUNG Mayor and MP At the close of today's debates, MYPs will vote to decide which of the topics will become the fo...
Here is a video for an Iraqi recognized parliament member Hanan Al Fatlawi confesses on Iraqi National TV (min 1:04+): “Iraqi is a piece of cake. We divided it between us. Everyone took his/her piece, contracts, commissions,…all of us benefited…” ...
Vladimir Konstantinov, speaker of the Crimean Parliament: Konstantinov is on the list for the same reasons as Aksyonov. Konstantinov’s construction businessoweslarges sums to Russian and Ukrainian banks. The Ukrainians: Viktor Medvedchuk: Medvedchuk, leader of Ukrainian Choice, is being designated ...