Example sentences of "party which had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks were attended by all the other parties which had secured representation in the National Assembly [ see p. 39129 ] . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The four opposition parties which had formed the Democratic Bloc in May [ see p. 38982 ] voiced opposition to the constitutional proposals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The results were , however , contested by 14 of the parties which had participated in the elections . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And , finally , a party which had seen itself as being part of a process of international socialist revolution , linked with the Russian revolution of nineteen seventeen , becomes a party which is primarily a party of Chinese nationalism . |
| 22 | According to local press reports three people were killed in Bamenda , including Tita Fomukong , chair of the Cameroon National Party which had supported Biya . |
| 23 | Other sources of unease were the unfulfilled aspirations of the minority Shiite community , mostly concentrated in the region south of Baghdad , and the occcasional stirrings of the Communist Party which had gained strength during the Qasem period and become solidly represented in the army until efforts to purge them in the 1970s . |
| 24 | All this had been achieved at the expense of the Liberal Party which had monopolized all three areas before 1910 . |
| 25 | The party which had ruled France for ten of the past 12 years was in a state of ruin . |
| 26 | But it was the Labour Party which had become the official Opposition in 1918 . |
| 27 | On April 19 Verdiger announced that he would after all support Labour , but on April 22 Shas , the ultra-orthodox party which had played a major role in the collapse of the coalition in March by abstaining in a vote of no-confidence , announced its absolute support for Likud . |
| 28 | In a general election on May 9 , 1987 , the Nationalist Party narrowly defeated the Labour Party which had governed in Malta for the previous 16 years . |
| 29 | Under the terms of the Bill a successful candidate would be required to form a government from the political party which had nominated him , even if that party had failed to win a majority of seats in the legislature . |
| 30 | Deposits would be returned to the payee unless the case went to a full hearing and the party which had paid the deposit lost and had an order for costs made against them , in which case the deposit would be forfeit as part of the costs payable . |