Rigsdag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Rigsdag
< Danish, equivalent to rigs, genitive of rig kingdom + dag diet, assembly. Cf. Reichstag
Example Sentences
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Altogether the six anti-Nazi parties obtained 1,941,600 votes, almost 400,000 more than they got in 1939, and increased their seats in the powerless Rigsdag lower house from 137 to 143.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inger Merete Nordentoft, Communist member of the Rigsdag, principal of a large school, and spinster, applied for three months' maternity leave.
From Time Magazine Archive
When therefore the Rigsdag rejected the budget, he advised the king to issue another provisional financial decree.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
The whole question of the provisional financial decrees was ultimately regularized by a special resolution of the Rigsdag; and the retirement of the Estrup ministry in August 1894 was the immediate result of the compromise.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
The women voted for the first time at a general election in 1918 and nine, representing all parties, were elected to the Rigsdag, five to the Upper and four to the Lower House.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper
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