Example sentences of "party to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years later , as I mentioned above , I was party to the same fear at Bramshill , in relation to the use of the Nato sweater . |
| 2 | Moreover , Canada itself was changing — in the great building programmes in and around Montreal ( not least at McGill itself , one of whose schemes resulted in the superb McLennan Library ) and , more ominously , in the growth of separatism that was about to rock , in Pierre Trudeau 's words , ‘ the smug complacency ’ of English-Canada , the Canada of the WASPS ( ‘ White , Anglo-Saxon and Protestant ’ ) and of the Roman Catholic Church , a party to the ‘ Quiet Revolution ’ . |
| 3 | Thereafter Trusts will be expected to continue to provide such services subject to review at the request of either party to the contract and , in the event of disagreement , the approval of the Secretary of State . ’ |
| 4 | I have certainly been party to one or two discussions amongst friends , and as part of my work I take groups of young people away on climbing trips , most to very white-dominated areas where the mere appearance of a black face in a pub or at a crag is enough to cause stares and whispers . |
| 5 | But John Evans , for the national executive , insisted that it was unreasonable to tie the party to a strict timetable since scientists and technologists did not yet agree on how nuclear plants could be decommissioned safely . |
| 6 | However , the conference overwhelmingly rejected attempts from the left to commit the party to a major extension of public ownership , and to take control of at least one leading company in each of the main manufacturing sectors . |
| 7 | The conference also approved the Britain in the Modern World policy review , which proposes : Cancelling one of the four planned Trident submarines ; Putting other Trident missiles and Polaris into international arms reduction talks ; Opposing the modernisation of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe ; A commitment to continued Nato membership , while arguing for the abandonment of its flexible response strategy ; Aiming to eliminate all nuclear weapons by 2000 ; Adoption of a policy of no first use of British nuclear weapons ; Decisions The conference yesterday : Rejected a motion which would have committed the party to phasing out nuclear power stations within 15 years . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ How would a political party as totally committed as the Labour Party to equality of treatment and of opportunity for girls and women , lend its support to the introduction of schools in which men exercise all the power , and women are assigned a subordinate and restricted role ? ’ |
| 9 | As late as last year a narrow conference majority wanted to hold the party to unilateral nuclear disarmament . |
| 10 | Christine McVicar , Glasgow Shettleston CLP , said she would not pay the tax , but failed to win conference support for a motion committing the party to a campaign of non-payment . |
| 11 | THE LABOUR conference voted by a 3-1 majority yesterday to reject moves to commit the party to changing the voting system at parliamentary elections . |
| 12 | On the question of whether as adviser he had been privy to confidential information , he said : ‘ Any ( management ) buyout is party to information other buyers wo n't have . ’ |
| 13 | After the Rayner Report in 1981 , we were party to discussions with Sir John Boreham , the then Head of the Government Statistical Service , and others with a view to setting up a National Statistics Council . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the appellant , who was not named as a party to the action , against an order that he was liable to pay £861 with costs . |
| 15 | His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order . |
| 16 | As in the Recruit scandal , the only party to be left out were the Communists , and the lion 's share of the money went to the the ruling Liberal Democrat Party . |
| 17 | A wafer-thin election victory returned the British Labour Party to power after 13 years . |
| 18 | She was also instrumental in nudging him into giving 25 per cent of the positions in the Socialist Party to women . |
| 19 | In the autumn of 1924 the general election reduced the Liberal Party to a pitiable number of MPs . |
| 20 | He started to see that in his opinion more could be done for humanity by Churches than by political parties , even the best of political parties such as he took the Liberal Party to be ; or at least that the Churches engaged at a more profound level with the predicament of humanity . |
| 21 | On 8 August 1952 he and Joan gave a farewell party to Cambridge friends . |
| 22 | Her supporters , however , claim that she has returned the party to the essential verities of sound money , lower rates of income tax , strong government , and rolling back government from areas where it has no useful role to play . |
| 23 | The adaptation of the Conservative party to the post-war Labour party initiatives is one example . |
| 24 | The one area of Conservative history which has flourished is political biography , but the danger of this is a tendency to reduce the history of the Conservative Party to a history of personalities and to avoid any analysis of Conservatism in terms of structures , interests and ideas . |
| 25 | In Andhra Pradesh , the autocratic rule of the former film star , Mr N.T. Rama Rao , has led to a steady haemorrhage of defectors from his Telugu Desam party to the Congress . |
| 26 | Party to be renamed next week . |
| 27 | David Noble-Rollin , of the Natural History Society of Northumbria led a party to Bolam last week . |
| 28 | The leaders of the Labour Party only just managed to hold the party to a ( common-sense ) multilateralist line on disarmament against increasingly emotional demands that unilateralism , already espoused by the Liberal Party , should become Labour Party policy as well . |
| 29 | So now , argue those who want the party to be modern and secular , is the time to act . |
| 30 | But it is neither fear of the Arabs , nor a belief in the impossibility of peace , that explains the attachment of Mr Shamir 's Likud Party to the West Bank . |