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  • proper noun Alternative form of Storting.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Storthing established prohibition after a plebiscite in 1919 showed great popular support.

    1920, March 5 2001

  • 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

  • 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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