rump parliament in a sentence
Examples
- In the Rump Parliament, Scobell found himself in the middle of the clashes leading to its dissolution in 1653.
- In 1659 he attended the restored Rump parliament and was charged with raising troops in Gloucester in July 1659.
- He was an active member of the Rump Parliament, where he emerged as deeply hostile to Royalists and Papists.
- In the Bosnian Serb rump parliament, only members of the leading party supported by the Radicals were in session.
- With the expulsion of the Rump Parliament by Oliver Cromwell in 1653, Reynolds for a time disappeared from public life.
- The Assembly must have stopped meeting sometime between then and Cromwell's dissolution of the Rump Parliament on 20 April 1653.
- Only about one third of the Rump Parliament became front benchers who were consistently present and engaged in their parliamentary position.
- On 7 July 1659 the restored rump Parliament made Thomlinson one of the five commissioners for the civil government of Ireland.
- At this point, the rump parliament had only 99 deputies and did not reach a quorum according to its own rules.
- In 1657 he was Mayor of Derby and in 1659 was in parliament again as part of the recalled Rump Parliament.