Kuwait s Parliamentary Revolution

Probably an oversight.

It was simply an oversight.

We're subject to government oversight.

We've looked at our government oversight.

Did you listen to the Parliamentary debate?

There is big oversight in that plan.

We've gone through three elections, presidential and parliamentary.

This kind of mathematical oversight is simply irresponsible.

Quite right, Miss Claythorne, it's an unfortunate oversight.

This is our opportunity to correct that oversight.

I suspect that there was an oversight in the examination.

So once politicians reach the parliamentary environment they will behave accordingly.

We are essentially going to become the parliamentary body of France.

If you give people power without oversight, it's a prescription for abuse.

The consequences of this assertion of parliamentary authority will be enormous. Parliamentary ratification did not simply provide a rubber stamp to a palace coup its approval was conditional. Emirs who need parliamentary approval to secure popular legitimacy must now reckon with the need to share power.

Let's review the next section, which concerns senate oversight of Starkwood field operations.

And they were based I think they were actually, they had oversight by Congress.

I got to stand before an oversight committee. What will I tell them about Treadstone?

Starkwood has let their security teams run amok all over the world, with no oversight.

I think it raises great things about parliamentary ideas, democracy, public space, being together, being individual.

If the delay is simply an oversight, will you please take care of it at once?

Parliamentary activity has become a political tug of war between the ruling and opposition parties over the issue.

Kuwait has just held its eleventh parliamentary election since independence in 1961. Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.

The Anglo Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

How can the scholar, who dwells away in the North West Territory or the Isle of Man, tell what is parliamentary in the kitchen?

If an oversight is the reason why you have not paid, please send us the amount due, and let us solve the problem immediately.

And in Iraq, finally, violence is on the rise again, and the country has yet to form a government four months after its last parliamentary elections.

And they were allowed to do so because of the absolute failure of oversight of the government that is supposed to be our government, protecting us.

According to our Greek daily about half of Greece's cops voted for Golden Dawn, helping it capture a handful of parliamentary seats in the may 2012 election.

Then the last major piece was citizen oversight. I don't believe that the Japanese government wants the people of Japan to know what the heck is going on.

We've got to get the people involved with an oversight panel made up of civilians who have nothing to gain or nothing to lose from telling the truth.

It turns out Boeing actually had to go buy back a good number of these manufacturers and bring back their expertise and oversight, which they assume wouldn't be necessary.

I think if we're going to fix this, one of the things we have to do is really change how we have oversight over the National School Lunch Program.

This happened by something as simple as fatigue or an oversight of concentration, where he forgot to remember the fact that the sun is constantly moving. a shot in a million

Metropolitan Police Commissioner talking about why the police need access to all of our communications, spying on us without any judicial oversight, and he said it was a matter of life and death.

According to Kuwait s constitution, the new ruler has one year to appoint a crown prince, but he has to appoint a prime minister immediately. The delay is significant, because Kuwaitis are unaccustomed to this kind of parliamentary influence.

And when you see this kind of behavior, what you see is the evidence of algorithms in conflict, algorithms locked in loops with each other, without any human oversight, without any adult supervision to say, Actually, 1.7 million is plenty.

Many people on the left have put their hopes in a Syriza win, but with the narrow victory by New Democracy, the right wing party, and with Golden Dawn winning 18 parliamentary seats, the false illusion of Greek democracy was shathered once again

With independence in 1961, these rules were codified in a constitution. Compared to other Gulf monarchies, the Kuwaiti royal family has limited powers, though constitutional rules have frequently been ignored charges of vote rigging marred the 1967 election, and parliamentary dissolution has dotted the country s history.

In Afghanistan, it could have meant instead of concentrating on the big presidential and parliamentary elections, we should have done what was in the Afghan constitution from the very beginning, which is to get direct local elections going at a district level and elect people's provincial governors.

With this election, Kuwaiti women participated in choosing the parliament for the first time. Though women have long been active in Kuwaiti public life, they were enfranchised only last year, after a long and difficult campaign, by a parliamentary vote, and accounted for just 28 of the 249 candidates.

One remembers Hitler, who, while his own party did not quite get 50 of the vote, could base his seizure of power on a parliamentary majority. More recently, elections in the post communist countries of Europe have brought groups to power whose democratic credentials are dubious, to say the least.

In the Netherlands, the shock that arose over the killing of the film maker Theo van Gogh runs deep and has led to demands for legislation against hate speech. In Britain, proposed legislation concerning incitement to religious hatred and terrorism has led to emotional parliamentary debates and to doubts about the liberal credentials of Tony Blair s government.

Parliament retains the right to interrogate cabinet members, including the Prime Minister, on financial and administrative questions and has frequently passed motions of no confidence in government. More recently, with the death last December of the Emir, Sheikh Jabir al Ahmad, parliamentary approval was exercised a key role in resolving succession debates among factions of the royal family.