Example sentences of "his own party " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 2 | But many commentators believe that there are points of common interest between the government , the traffickers and the traditional ruling class , and that Mr Barco , a lame-duck president in the closing months of his administration , may no longer have the power within his own party to sustain his offensive . |
| 3 | Brazil 's latest political phenomenon , Fernando Collor de Mello , the governor of Alagoas state and a defector from the ruling PMDB , who founded his own party last year , astonished Brazil 's political class by taking a dramatic early lead in the opinion polls . |
| 4 | But , of course , his attack was very much on-target if he simply wished to attack those elements of the media that were least favourable to his own party and government . |
| 5 | It is true that the Smolensk archives dropped uncensored into German hands in the Second World War , and that Yakovlev is remarkably self-critical of his own party ; but only Makarenko stands outside the Bolshevik view of things . |
| 6 | But he commanded general respect as an authoritative voice , in tune with the need for social order , sensitive to the needs of the unions and his own party , but also with a genuine cross-party appeal . |
| 7 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 8 | By this time Odinga had formed his own party , the KPU ( Kenya People 's Union ) , but following an incident in Kenyatta 's presence at Kisumu he was jailed in October 1969 and the KPU banned . |
| 9 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 10 | Rightwingers in his own party , however , fear that by embarking on a dialogue under US auspices , Israel will eventually be pushed , despite its own reservations , into talks with the PLO and advance the creation of an independent Palestinian state . |
| 11 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 12 | They cautiously resumed aid ( at $58m a year ) in 1987 after Mr Bouterse allowed a free election in which his own party fared badly ; and were upset again last August when the chief police inspector was found with a bullet in his head near Mr Bouterse 's office . |
| 13 | Mr Orlando , who last month took a deep breath and announced his intention of leaving the Christian Democrats to lead his own party , is the more bitter of the two . |
| 14 | Mr Andreotti , inveterate beneficiary of the existing system , is hostile to Mr Segni 's proposals , but has surprised his own party by expressing interest in Mr Craxi 's idea . |
| 15 | The general thought he could do better , and for a time considered launching his own party . |
| 16 | So long as he can block Labour , his own party will stick together . |
| 17 | Nawaz Sharif , the Pakistani prime minister , is under particular pressure from within his own party . |
| 18 | Dismissing Paisley 's support as ‘ a fascist organization masquerading under the cloak of religion … deluding a lot of sincere people … hell-bent on provoking religious strife in Northern Ireland ’ , he seemed unprepared for the reaction against him within his own party . |
| 19 | He hardened his opposition to both , despite the fact that his own party chairman had once favoured the first , and vocal forces within his Scottish party were in support of the second . |
| 20 | He is not doing badly enough to find another nominee through a brokered convention , but he is not doing well enough to please a majority even within his own party . |
| 21 | Mr Clinton seemed eager to heal wounds and to overcome dissatisfaction within his own party . |
| 22 | But , as a two-time General Election loser — and a perceived drag on his own party 's prospects — there were few who did not concede that his career at the top of British politics was at an end . |
| 23 | To those concerned about political stagnation , about the need for a change , he suggested , with some effectiveness , that it was enough that change was being wrought in his own party . |
| 24 | Dick was very annoyed when his own party ruled out this solution as being insufficiently comprehensive . |
| 25 | Over the last weekend , he single-handedly managed to create a 3-4 point drop in his own party 's support , with a knock-on effect against Labour . |
| 26 | Instead , by sticking inflexibly for instant PR , claiming all the credit for constitutional reform , and continuing to rubbish Labour , Paddy Ashdown did his own party , and the cause of constitutional reform , a disservice . |
| 27 | ‘ I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs , ’ he said of the fight against anti-Europeans in his own party . |
| 28 | THE Prime Minister scored the luckiest escape of a lifetime last night with a knife-edge victory over the ‘ enemy within ’ of his own party . |
| 29 | OUSTED councillor Ralph Knight has been snubbed for the second time in two months by members of his own party , it was revealed last night . |
| 30 | And he attacked his own party 's scheme to house mentally handicapped in the community . |