Example sentences of "party which had " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 2 | An integral part of this strategy was to establish parties which had support from several or all of Senegal 's ethnic groups , by adopting the proportional representation system of election , and avoiding the close identity of an elected delegate with one geographical constituency . |
| 3 | The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory . |
| 4 | Revocation of an objective regime would only be possible with the consent of all parties which had consented to the regime and ‘ have substantial interest in its functioning ’ . |
| 5 | Voting for the resolution were the three moderate parties which had drafted it — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , the Basque Left ( EE ) and Basque Solidarity ( EA ) . |
| 6 | Its unified parliament , the House of Representatives , comprised the 159 members of the North 's former legislature and the 111 from the South , plus 39 members appointed on March 24 , mainly to give representation to opposition political parties which had been prohibited in the North and only recently legalized in the South . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the Front populaire ivoirien ( FPI ) , now emerging as the strongest of the 26 parties which had been allowed to register since May , elected its general secretary , Laurent Gbagbo , to stand against Houphouët-Boigny in the presidential elections ; he was the first opposition presidential candidate since independence in 1960 . |
| 8 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 9 | The first Conference of Balkan Democratic Parties in Athens on June 14 was attended by nine non-communist parties from Albania , Bulgaria , Greece , Romania and Yugoslavia as well as observers from smaller groups ; the participants agreed to establish a secretariat in Athens to promote co-operation among Balkan parties which had espoused democracy and a free market economy . |
| 10 | Opposition parties — which had called for two rounds of voting — claimed that the provisions were designed to give the advantage to the ruling Cameroon People 's Democratic Movement ( RDPC ) over emerging opposition parties which had intended to join forces during the campaign . |
| 11 | On Feb. 10 , 15 of the 23 parties which had contested the municipal elections had said that they would not participate in the legislative elections . |
| 12 | The results were , however , contested by 14 of the parties which had participated in the elections . |
| 13 | He had secured the support not just of members of parties which had formerly been members of the ruling coalition , but also of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — the former Communist Party ) and the Greens . |
| 14 | However , CODESA II , which brought together the government , ANC and 17 other organizations , ended in deadlock and delegates failed to adopt any of the reports of the five working parties which had been established at the first CODESA session in December 1991 [ see pp. 38662-63 ; 38705 ] . |
| 15 | Under the terms of this law , 21 political parties which had existed prior to the 1981 ban remained proscribed , including Nkrumah 's Convention People 's Party and the Progress Party . |
| 16 | The eight parties which had come together as the Kurdistan Front took part on May 19 in elections for an executive leader and a 105-seat Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly for the Kurds of northern Iraq . |
| 17 | She was supported by seven of the eight parties which had agreed to form a coalition Cabinet , although the Centre Alliance withdrew at the last minute . |
| 18 | On Sept. 17 President Babangida of Nigeria called for the imposition of sanctions against Liberian parties which had failed to comply with the Yamoussoukro lV peace agreement [ see p. 38993 ] . |
| 19 | The election was widely characterized as a contest between " angel " or pro-democracy parties which had opposed the Suchinda government ( the Democrat Party , New Aspiration Party , Palang Dharma and Ekkaparb ) and " devil " or pro-military parties . |
| 20 | The Alliance , an opposition grouping of five minor parties which had achieved 14 per cent of the vote in the 1990 election but secured only one of the 97 seats , campaigned strongly for change on the grounds that the current system made it almost impossible for minor parties to gain significant parliamentary representation . |
| 21 | The four opposition parties which had formed the Democratic Bloc in May [ see p. 38982 ] voiced opposition to the constitutional proposals . |
| 22 | Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats . |
| 23 | A communiqué issued after the meeting said that delegates had declared Iraq to be a " democratic federal country " , and had agreed on a federal structure based on wilayats or provinces , reportedly as a gesture to Islamic parties which had insisted on Arab-Islamic nomenclature . |
| 24 | The talks were attended by all the other parties which had secured representation in the National Assembly [ see p. 39129 ] . |
| 25 | On Dec. 3 Valentin Kuptsev , leader of the RCP until the ban , called for the parties which had emerged from the CPSU to prepare a revival of the party . |
| 26 | Of the 90 members of the National Assembly , serving a four-year term , 40 were directly elected ; the remaining 50 were distributed by the Republican Electoral Commission according to a proportional representation system among those eight parties which had reached the threshold for parliamentary representation by winning 3 per cent or more of the vote . |
| 27 | The same population which hero-worshipped Hitler would not tolerate ‘ little tin-pot gods ( Nebengötter ) alongside the Führer ’ , and wanted an end to ‘ this glorification of persons who would otherwise practically be nobodies ’ and to the uncalled for luxury-living in a Party which had come to power stating that it would wipe out such corruption . |
| 28 | The decline of the Scottish Tory Party which had marred the Thatcher years had been halted . |
| 29 | In some cases , however , the information on contacts may be slender , particularly if the sexual encounter followed a pick-up in a pub or resulted from a drunken all-night party which had been gate-crashed , and the contact-tracer may then be involved in trips , often abortive , to the Jolly Fig and Navel in the seedier part of town to try to locate Suzie — ‘ … the one with the long blonde hair , pink mini-skirt , and acne ’ . |
| 30 | In the general election of 1918 the Irish Parliamentary Party which had dominated Irish politics since the days of Parnell was routed by a reorganised Sinn Fein , many of whose members had fought in the 1916 Rising . |