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Examples of prorogue
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Unable to elect a Speaker, Manning advised the President to prorogue Parliament.
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Harper again advised the Governor General to prorogue Parliament on December 30, 2009.
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It is the prerogative of the monarch to summon and prorogue Parliament.
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And if voters did not know what it meant to prorogue Parliament, they certainly smelt a rat.
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The President has the power to summon and prorogue either House of Parliament or to dissolve Lok Sabha.
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It is also the duty of the king to prorogue sessions through a Royal Decree when the House term expires.
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First, the President, on Cabinet's advice, may prorogue Parliament by proclamation in the Government Gazette.
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This met strong opposition from Tories as well as Whigs, and James's response was to prorogue Parliament on 20 November 1685.
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Michaelle Jean to prorogue Parliament was in December 2008 when he faced the threat of a coalition forming among opposition parties.
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- Postpone: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
- Adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body
- (Prorogued) A legislative session is the period of time in which a legislature, in both parliamentary and presidential systems, is convened for the purpose of lawmaking, usually being one of two or more smaller divisions of the entire time between two elections. ...
- To prolong or extend. [15th-18th c.]; To defer. [from 15th c.]; To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session. [from 15th c.]
- (prorogued) adjourned (postponed). (Romeo and Juliet)
- Prorogation ends a session of Assembly, but does not dissolve it.
- To end a session of parliament without calling an election. When the Governor prorogues parliament on the advice of the Premier, the business of the parliament remains on the agenda for the next session.
