Example sentences of "party the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for once , the regular Labour conference task of reminding the party the public purse is not bottomless was put in the shade by the two looming Tory conference tasks of presenting the poll tax — and 15 per cent base rates . |
| 2 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 3 | One person might give the Conservative Party the highest of three high scores , another might give it the highest of three low scores . |
| 4 | Fifth , it examines whether recent elections have produced a realignment in the party system ; have three successive handsome election victories now made the Conservative party the natural majority party ? |
| 5 | At least 70 alternatives have been submitted , with that of Polish Socialist Labour Party the front-runner . |
| 6 | Although Mr Kinnock and leading party figures have publicly backed moves towards one member , one vote in the party the annual conference is not due to discuss the issue until 1991 . |
| 7 | He even named the Government Chief Whip , Mr Tim Renton , and the party chairman , Mr Kenneth Baker , as Waddington allies who ‘ saw the danger ( but ) failed to prevent such a folly ’ which , Mr Tebbit argued , was in danger of handing back to an opportunist Labour Party the very ‘ key group of voters whose support is vital for a fourth election victory ’ — by implication Tory populists sensitive to what he called ‘ being swamped by people of different culture , history and religion ’ . |
| 8 | Rajiv Gandhi , on whose Congress Party the minority government of Chandra Shekhar depends , appeared this week to be on the point of withdrawing his support . |
| 9 | Higher taxes could well sink Mr Kaifu with the voters : a 3% consumption tax in 1989 lost the ruling party the upper house . |
| 10 | He ‘ wanted to call the new party the Social Democratic Party ’ . |
| 11 | At the time the Conservatives were low in the polls and within the Party the various political and organisational groups were not yet pulling hard together towards the election . |
| 12 | The price of such an agreement , of course , would be electoral reform — which , purely incidentally , would give his party the balance of power after any election in the foreseeable future . |
| 13 | Within the German Social Democratic Party the issue had been in dispute for some time . |
| 14 | Within the Conservative Party the Gulf crisis lent weight to the argument that a leadership challenge would be inappropriate . |
| 15 | Perhaps there was a party the night before , maybe we hung around in bed too long doing moist wicked things , or more likely I just slept in . |
| 16 | ‘ Conservatives have a strong localist tradition , but the danger of too much localism is that the Party 's voice and through the Party the political interpretation of the Government 's voice is not heard . ’ |
| 17 | He had also telephoned an old friend , who had invited him to a birthday party the following weekend , which he was looking forward to , although with some apprehension . |
| 18 | With fifty teams present , there had also been one hell of a party the night before . |
| 19 | He is unlikely to drive through the party the change in the culture of Labourism that would give any realignment depth and substance . |
| 20 | I would include in the party the current inexperienced members of the full squad , particularly Dewi Morris , who would reap huge benefits from making the trip . |
| 21 | He preferred to count what rugby had given him , as he remarked to his squad when the tourists handed out their thank-you presents at a private party the morning after the Second Test . |
| 22 | This outcome , in turn , gave the Labour Party the double advantages of being able to choose the date of the next election and of going into it with the prestige of being the government . |
| 23 | By ten o'clock on the day of the party the ‘ table ’ was loaded with food . |
| 24 | For the Labour Party the outcome was more ambiguous . |
| 25 | In the Labour Party the supporters of rearmament — Dalton and Bevin — were forced to work behind the scenes . |
| 26 | On the economy , on Europe and on support for the new leadership , Labour took a giant step towards becoming the Party the people will trust to govern Britain . |
| 27 | Although as the largest parliamentary party the CEDA might have expected to dominate government after the November 1933 election , this was ruled out by the President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , on grounds of the CEDA 's non-republicanism . |
| 28 | In the final play Freedom to Party the holocaust is over , but the battles remain . |
| 29 | She gave a lunch party the day I was there : just a modest little affair , a few media stars , a Hollywood lawyer , a chat-show host . |
| 30 | However , now is the time to discover ways of creating simple and delicious dishes with Dutch Edam , such as our Carrot and Butter Bean Souffles — a stunning starter for a dinner party the Chicken and Edam Salad ; a light and healthy lunch dish , and the Creamy Scrambled Eggs and Nut and Cheese Potatoes for warming winter snacks or suppers . |