Example sentences of "the [adj] democrats ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany , the Social Democrats ' caution about reunification has been punished by an enthusiastic electorate . |
| 2 | Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March . |
| 3 | With anti-European Tory MPs openly defying their leader , earlier this year , it appears Mr Major must rely — once again — on the Liberal Democrats ' support . |
| 4 | The Liberal Democrats ' defence spokesman , Menzies Campbell , said later that the president 's proposals were a gimmick and ‘ smacked of being seen to do something without serious understanding of its effectiveness ’ . |
| 5 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 6 | The Liberal Democrats ' success unleashed speculation about pacts , deals or at least closer co-operation between the two opposition parties . |
| 7 | But Wilson , 51 , the Liberal Democrats ' election campaign director , may be wishing life was that simple . |
| 8 | If smears from the far right were predictable , the campaign trail theme , echoed in the Liberal Democrats ' campaign against Ashok Kumar in Langbaurgh , that Taylor was not ‘ a local man ’ , was not . |
| 9 | The Liberal Democrats ' campaign for the Richmond seat will kick off tonight with the formal adoption of candidate George Irwin in Northallerton Town Hall at 7.30pm . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats ' campaign for the Richmond seat will kick off tonight with the formal adoption of candidate George Irwin in Northallerton Town Hall at 7.30pm . |
| 11 | The Liberal Democrats ' campaign for the Richmond seat will kick off tonight with the formal adoption of candidate George Irwin in Northallerton Town Hall at 7.30pm . |
| 12 | There 's still no overall control , but it was the Liberal Democrats ' night . |
| 13 | The Liberal Democrats ' total would fall from 22 ( including by-elections ) to 16 in the new Parliament . |
| 14 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 15 | I had hoped that the hon. Gentleman was going to say whether he was in favour of the Liberal Democrats ' position that there should not be a Secretary of State and on Labour 's position that there should be . |
| 16 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 17 | Labour made a net gain of 39 seats on Thursday , chiefly because its share of the vote increased by four points , from 31 to 35 per cent , but most of this modest gain was at the Liberal Democrats ' expense , not the Tories ' . |
| 18 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |
| 19 | I note that it is the Liberal Democrats ' policy to take power away from parents and governors and to give it to centralised bureaucrats , and that is precisely like the Labour party policy as in so many things . |
| 20 | Since then the proposal has featured in the Liberal Democrats ' health policy document Restoring the Nation 's Health . |
| 21 | The Liberal Democrats ' vote on Thursday , 18 per cent , was lower than that secured by the Liberals under David Steel in February 1974 . |
| 22 | Compared with the previous county elections in 1989 , the Liberal Democrats ' vote rose most in the south of England — where they were generally better placed to win seats . |
| 23 | But there was little he or Mrs Thatcher in earlier exchanges , could do to mitigate what Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal Democrats ' leader , called ‘ a shameful example ’ of human rights policy and what the shadow Foreign Secretary , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said was ‘ a policy of the three o'clock knock by police ’ . |
| 24 | MR PADDY Ashdown yesterday staked the Liberal Democrats ' claim to offer British politics a ‘ moral voice ’ for the 1990s , building on its stance over Hong Kong and the Vietnamese refugees . |
| 25 | The New Democrats ' distortion is nationalism : not the reasoned nationalism of the anti-federalists in today 's European Community , or even the relatively disciplined nationalism of 19th-century Western Europe , but something much more primal . |
| 26 | They were also losing votes to the left : in 1948 the Christian Democrats received 49 per cent of the votes while the Communists and Socialists together polled 31 per cent ; by 1963 the Christian Democrats ' share had fallen to 38 per cent and the Socialists and Communists ' had risen to 39 per cent . |
| 27 | After municipal elections last June , Mr Andreotti and the Christian Democrats ' party secretary , Arnaldo Forlani , vetoed Mr Orlando 's attempt to renew a coalition with the Communists and the Greens with which he had ruled for three of his five years as mayor of Palermo . |
| 28 | But the general response of voters made nonsense of the Christian Democrats ' appeal for support for strong government . |