Sentence examples for chiefly democratic from inspiring English sources

In a news conference here Thursday, Mr. Schwarzenegger did not apologize for the state of California's fiscal affairs and instead stood defiantly against the people he had alternatively battled and wooed for the better part of six years — chiefly Democratic lawmakers, public employee unions and so-called special interests.

In their own defense, New York lawmakers, chiefly Democrats, point out that Democratic lawmakers from other states have also had a difficult time getting their own bills passed in a Republican-controlled Congress.

Forty-six sleepover guests gave $516,000 to related fund-raising committees, chiefly the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and New York Senate 2000, accounts that are designed to accept unlimited soft-money contributions, the center found.

In 1992, Bill Clinton galvanized the middle class, as Cuomo had, but challenged the orthodoxies that Cuomo by then had come to represent: chiefly, the old Democratic faith in the efficacy of government.

The Republicans hoped to prove that the Solyndra loan was a political favor to wealthy investors with Democratic ties, chiefly George Kaiser, an Oklahoma billionaire.

They also suggested that the combined fund-raising would make his campaign competitive with Mr. Obama and other pro-Democratic groups, chiefly unions, which are planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on federal, state and local elections this year.

In Vinick's case that was because he was from a "blue" state, solidly Democratic California, and chiefly because he was in favour of abortion rights, enabling him to appeal to women voters who had long eluded the Republicans' reach.

From Sarah Jessica Parker, recording an automated phone message for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, to Ed Asner, who made one for the Democratic National Committee attacking Mr. Bush's Social Security proposals, famous names are being enlisted, chiefly on behalf of the Democratic candidate, to mobilize support.

Many commentators, including our own Michael Wolff, have questioned the merit of the election law charges and suggested that the onetime Democratic presidential hopeful is chiefly on trial for adultery – even as his late wife Elizabeth was dying of cancer.

In January he visited Europe, chiefly to emphasise that Japan was a staunch democratic partner on NATO's eastern flank.

Civil disobedience as non-violent protest or civil resistance are also acts of conscience, but are designed by those who undertake them chiefly to change, by appealing to the majority and democratic processes, laws or government policies perceived to be incoherent with fundamental social virtues and principles (such as justice, equality or respect for intrinsic human dignity).