Example sentences of "party which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The four opposition parties which had formed the Democratic Bloc in May [ see p. 38982 ] voiced opposition to the constitutional proposals . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was they who , at the turn of the century , founded the socialist parties which came to dominate the political scene in 1917 . |
| 6 | But it was the Labour Party which had become the official Opposition in 1918 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The decline of the Scottish Tory Party which had marred the Thatcher years had been halted . |
| 9 | Chatichai Choonhaven [ see p. 39007 ] , drawing its support largely from Chart Thai ( Chatichai 's old party ) and from Sammakkhi Tham , the air force 's protégé party which had won the largest number of seats ( 79 ) in the March election , but disintegrated with the collapse of the Suchinda government . |
| 10 | A fourth , dominated by Sir Stafford Cripps and the Socialist League , a body founded in 1932 by a large minority group of the Independent Labour Party which refused to leave the Labour Party , favoured a ‘ united front ’ with the Communists against fascists . |