[W]e could define a national parliament broadly as a Member State's central representative assembly which elects or at least dismisses the national government, and which holds it to account. This seems to be a robust definition comprising the unicameral parliaments, the lower chambers of the bicameral parliaments and the senates with censure powers in the EU Member States.

Red ferment is one in which red mould grows on polished round rice, and is a specialty of the area round Gutian and Pingnan in Fujian province.

The relation between tense and time in English, however, is by no means straightforward, as we saw in Ch. 1, §3, and it is important to be aware that preterite tense does not always signal past time.

Six towns and townships make up Kinmen County namely, Chincheng Town, Chinhu Town, Chinsha Town, Chining Township, Lieyu Township, and Wuchio Township. The total land area is 150 square kilometers with a population of about 80,000.