Sejm in a sentence

He managed to get more money out of the sejm than his father ever could, and at one of his sejm s he won the hearts of the assembly by unexpectedly appearing before them in the simple grey coat of a Masovian lord.

It was there that the tradition of the coronation Sejm (Polish: "Sejm koronacyjny") was founded.

Sanation deputies in the Sejm used a parliamentary maneuver to abolish the democratic March Constitution and push through a more authoritarian April Constitution in 1935; it reduced the powers of the Sejm, which Piłsudski despised.

Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament With the exception of ethnic minority parties, only candidates of political parties receiving at least 5% of the total national vote can enter the Sejm.

The 1182 Sejm in Łęczyca (known as the First Sejm) was the most notable of these councils, in that for the first time in Poland's history it established laws constraining the power of the ruler.

The Nihil novi act, adopted in 1505 by the Sejm, transferred most of the legislative power from the monarch to the Sejm.

The Parliament elected him, and he could appoint the Prime Minister as well as the government with the Sejm 's (lower house's) approval, but he could only dissolve the Sejm with the Senate 's consent.

It now returns to the more powerful lower house of parliament, the Sejm, where the ruling party can usually muster a slim majority.

The newly elected legislature — the lower house, the Sejm, and the Senate — will meet for the first time Monday.

Women comprise just 29% of parliamentarians in Poland's lower house, the Sejm, but the speakers during the debate were mostly women.

The press service of the Kyrgyz Parliament reported that Dzhumabekov congratulated Egils Levits on his election to the post of president by the country's parliament (Sejm), as well as on the 101st anniversary of Independence Day of Latvia.

The legislation passed Friday by the Polish parliament’s lower house, or Sejm, now will be taken up by the Senate and must also be approved by the president.

Additionally, if the envoys were unable to reach a unanimous decision within six weeks (the time limit of a single session), deliberations were declared void and all previous acts passed by that Sejm were annulled.

After the 1493 Sejm in Piotrków, it became a regularly convening body, to which indirect elections were held every two years.

Although he was reluctant to the parliamentary system and political independence of the nobility, he recognised the authority of legal norms, supported legalism and summoned annual sessions of the Sejm, usually obtaining funds on state defence.

Article 154, para. 3 An absolute majority of votes in the presence of at least half of all Sejm deputies is required to approve the cabinet, which the president will then accept and administer the oath of office.

Basically, this act transferred legislative power from the king to the Sejm.

Even though the Sejm was largely subservient to the Communist party, it is worth noting that a single brave deputy, Romuald Bukowski (Independent) voted against the imposition of martial law in 1982.

He also has the opportunity to directly influence it by using his veto to stop a bill; however, his veto can be overruled by a three-fifths majority vote in the presence of at least half of the statutory number of members of the Sejm (230).

In 1505 in Radom, the Sejm adopted the Nihil novi title, which forbade the King to issue laws without the consent of the nobility.