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- proper noun Alternative form of
Storting .
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Although a monarchy, its executive and legislative power is vested in the parliament, called the Storthing, and the King has merely a nominal command over the army and navy, with power to appoint the governor-general only.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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As late as 1866 the Storthing refused a grant to Ibsen definitely on the ground of the scandal caused by his sarcastic portrait of Pastor Strawman.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Sören Jaabaek (1814-94), a peasant farmer of ultra-socialistic views, who had, almost alone, opposed in the Storthing the grant of any pensions to poets, and whose name was an abomination to Ibsen.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Sören Jaabaek (1814-94), a peasant farmer of ultra-socialistic views, who had, almost alone, opposed in the Storthing the grant of any pensions to poets, and whose name was an abomination to Ibsen.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Scandinavian life, echoes of a frightened Storthing in Christiania, of a crafty court in Stockholm, and of Denmark stretching her bleeding hands to her sisters in an agony of despair.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Scandinavian life, echoes of a frightened Storthing in Christiania, of a crafty court in Stockholm, and of Denmark stretching her bleeding hands to her sisters in an agony of despair.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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As late as 1866 the Storthing refused a grant to Ibsen definitely on the ground of the scandal caused by his sarcastic portrait of Pastor Strawman.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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The Storthing established prohibition after a plebiscite in 1919 showed great popular support.
1920, March 5 2001
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The thirteenth Storthing (National Congress) of NORWAY, was opened on the 11th of February by King Oscar in person.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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Harring appeals to the Norwegian Storthing of 1851, confident that he shall receive ample justice at the hands of the Representatives of
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 Various
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