Example sentences of "[noun] for the [adj] party " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest opportunity for the local party organization to exercise freedom is in the choice of a parliamentary candidate . |
| 2 | The front runner for the Democratic Party presidential nomination , Bill Clinton , won primaries in New York , Wisconsin and Kansas on April 7 , and a non-binding contest in Minnesota . |
| 3 | In relation to English , however , the Council showed more sympathy for the working party 's views in its recommendations to the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | That is why the contests for the Labour Party 's leadership and deputy leadership sit so ill in the context of the continuing post-mortem — or biopsy , as Neil Kinnock insisted on calling it — after Labour 's fourth consecutive election defeat . |
| 5 | Why was the issue of economies one of so much difficulty for the Labour Party ? |
| 6 | Also standing are Carrie Hynd for the Green Party while on a lighter note Ben Shotton and Owen Unsworth are campaigning for the Young Church Organist and Macweirdo Spectacular political parties respectively . |
| 7 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 8 | The rebuff did much to undermine his enthusiasm for the Conservative party . |
| 9 | He had been a deputy in parliament for the Swiss Party of Labour from 1944 , when it was founded , to 1986 , having represented the Communist Party from 1936 until it was banned shortly before the Second World War . |
| 10 | It soon became apparent the way we were being footed about , we would have more chance of convincing Rupert Murdoch to stand as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Although US unions have been associated with support for the Democratic Party , the politicians and policies they have backed have by no means been the most socialist of those on offer . |
| 12 | The traditional southern support for the Democratic Party was maintained , in spite of the doubts of some of the more conservative southern politicians . |
| 13 | This openness also showed that in relation to science the consultative process revealed massive support for the working party 's view on the time to be devoted to science and on the position of balanced science but that the Council , with some reluctance , made recommendations in accordance with the Secretary of State 's different view . |
| 14 | Knowles ( 1952 ) and Newton ( 1969 ) also illustrate differences between mining areas in both their strike-proneness and their support for the Communist Party . |
| 15 | In many parts of the country these proved to be the most open elections ever to take place under Soviet rule , and gave ample demonstration of collapsing support for the Communist Party ( CPSU ) . |
| 16 | Thereafter , in 1970 , 74 and 79 , the governing party has been rejected without however any great surge of popular support for the alternative party , at least by the standards of earlier years . |
| 17 | that there would be no support for the Labour Party in Northern Ireland |
| 18 | By the end of the year the UDC , which in the summer had fully backed Leeds and urged its local branches to support the establishment of Workers ' and Soldiers Councils , had come round to full support for the Labour Party . |
| 19 | From 1945 until the 1960s the replacement of the electorate strengthened the ‘ working class ’ support for the Labour Party , but at the same time the current basis for such an alignment was weakening : |
| 20 | It must be said , however , that despite the forfeiture of much active and committed support among the industrial working class and the intellectual left , popular support for the Labour Party , as registered by the opinion polls , had not collapsed by 1970 . |
| 21 | The gains for the labour movement in the shipyards , at the power stations and on the streets were not therefore translated into electoral support for the Labour Party , on a broad enough basis . |
| 22 | 3 It is one thing to recognise the limited possibilities of insurrection in Britain , but it is another thing to move from this into support for the Labour Party . |
| 23 | In Britain , especially , the political ideas of trade union leaders in recent decades have been very confused ; on one side , most of them have continued to proclaim their general support for the Labour Party , and thus for the idea of a socialist society , however vaguely conceived , while on the other side , many of them have accepted in fact the principles of a market economy in the emphasis which they place upon ‘ free collective bargaining ’ . |
| 24 | Since 1973 there has been a steady increase in electoral support for the Conservative party which dominated centre-right coalition governments in the early 1980s . |
| 25 | ‘ If it had not been for the difficulties and bruises caused by the recession , I have no doubt there would be an increased majority for the Conservative Party , ’ he said . |
| 26 | There is the grudging recognition that , as it stands today , the House of Lords is an indefensible anachronism and that only limited legitimacy ( and therefore power ) can attach to a second chamber whose membership is largely based on heredity and which has an overwhelming and permanent majority for the Conservative Party . |
| 27 | They hoped and believed that Bonar Law would fail to secure an overall majority for the Conservative Party . |
| 28 | Following a survey for the Widdicombe Committee , Professor Miller concluded that ‘ very few respondents declared a willingness to vote in a local election for the major party they opposed nationally ’ ( Widdicombe 1986 , III : 106 ) . |
| 29 | Mrs Thatcher has told friends that the poll tax won the election for the Conservative Party . |
| 30 | The reason which they gave to me was that they did not believe that a man with my social background could win a General Election for the Conservative Party at that time in the twentieth century . |