Sentence examples for bulk of the party from inspiring English sources
The report will warn that, while the bulk of the party backs the coalition deal, there is still a hardcore of dissenters – dubbed the "all-end-in-tears brigade" – at odds with "the simplistic gung ho supporters of... coalition".
At present they can rely on the bulk of the party feeling cheerful and loyal, but as time wears on and more of those cheery new MPs are disappointed by reshuffles, then so the rebel group grows.
He has kept the bulk of the party behind him by remaining publicly ambivalent about any number of policies for which he was in fact the paymaster: conspicuously, market-oriented reforms of the public services, and the war in Iraq.To hop or not to hopNow he must define himself, and the Tories expect him to hop left.
During the South African War (1899 1902) his enthusiasm for the British Empire led to his estrangement from the bulk of the party, and, late in 1905, a few weeks before the Liberals returned to power, he completely broke with them by declaring his opposition to Irish Home Rule.
Although a new grouping, Liberal Left, will unfurl its banner at a fringe meeting opposing the continuance of the coalition as a threat to liberal values, the vast bulk of the party recoils at the idea of ministers quitting within two years of taking office, so provoking an election in which they would probably be hung, drawn and ridiculed.
The bulk of the party's MPs do not.
In this contest Stalin embodied the attitudes not merely of the people he had brought in through the control of the apparatus but also of the bulk of the old party militants.
He said there was no desire for it within the bulk of the Labour party, but there was a "real desire" to win the 2015 general election.
Equally, the militia missed an opportunity to destroy the bulk of the raiding party when they concentrated on recovering and dividing the recovered bullion and other plunder.
What they are talking about is not the preservation of the coalition, but a merger of the bulk of their party with the bulk of the Lib Dems, presumably spinning off some MPs they dislike on the Tory right and Lib Dem left, and leaving them in a congenially centrist party.
Immigration is a genuine problem: he is seriously at odds with the bulk of his party on the issue, though many independents would go with his plan.The more persuasive reason for worrying about Mr McCain is his age.
