Sentence examples for associate party from inspiring English sources

Mr Miliband wants union members who "opt in" and become "associate party members" to be the unions' only say in leadership contests.

Miliband is believed to be focusing on requiring union levy payers to be asked to sign up to an associate party membership.

Other Tory donors receiving honours this year include associate party treasurer Dominic Johnson, who lent the Cameron family his west London townhouse rent-free when the former prime minister resigned and left No 10.

The Unite executive has already said it wants trade unionists who agree to become associate party members to be given voting rights in Labour parliamentary selections for the first time.

Mark Wickham-Jones, a professor of politics at Bristol University, said it was widely accepted that a shift to requiring union levy payers to make a positive decision to become an associate party member would reduce the number of affiliated union members dramatically, possibly to well below a tenth of the 2.3 million political levy payers currently affiliated to the party.

Unite is willing to support the idea of asking its members to make a positive choice to become associate party members, but it does not at this stage agree that its vote should then reflect the number of associate members recruited by each union.

"To the extent that voters who rejected us associate the party with anything at all, it is with the past".

Equally, I have met a few diehard Labour supporters in Sheffield who still nostalgically associate the party with the gritty labour union movement here.

"Negative publicity, including untruths, about Xi Jinping were not suppressed the way publicity about Hu Jintao was," said one associate of party leaders.

Elvis gave them away to his associates like party favours.

Christopher Chaney, vice president of Strategic Vision, said certain cultural outlooks associated with party affiliations could carry over into car purchasing.