Sentence examples for composition of the party from inspiring English sources

Circumstances change; the composition of the party changes; MPs change.

The absence of California in the Republican coalition was hardly the main factor in fostering Bush's radicalism, but the changed composition of the party contributed to his insularity.

He praises Miliband for raising reform, but clearly would like the package to extend to the party conference, leadership election rules and composition of the party national executive.

In 1919, while the civil war was raging, the 8th party congress convened which adopted a new party program, decided such important matters as the relationship with the peasant masses, the organisation of the red army, the leading role of the party in the work of the soviets, the correction of the social composition of the party, and other matters.

Gove, himself educated at a fee-paying school in Scotland, said the composition of the party's high command was "a function of the fact that – as we pointed out a couple of years ago – more boys from Eton go to Oxford and Cambridge than boys eligible for free school meals".

One analyst with ties to officials involved in party planning said that at the May meeting, cadres were also asked to submit their views on changing the composition of the party's upper echelons, in a glimpse of what may be called intraparty democracy.

Consider one possible explanation: what political scientists call "party sorting". Party sorting means that the composition of the parties in the American public has changed.

To hold otherwise would require courts to reexamine the question of venue whenever the composition of the parties was altered; such a result would generate needless litigation and unduly burden the judiciary.

But I think we needed a lot more change in the composition of the Conservative party than we appreciated at the time or than the party allowed at the time.

It showed this entailing the energetic signing up of Bengali members and groups to alter the composition of the local party and so ensure the ghetto king became a Labour candidate.

But when the MoD dug in its heels, telling Downing Street that Thatcher would be "physically uncomfortable in such a cramped space" and arguing that the "composition of the unveiling party was constrained by clergy protocol", the prime minister reacted with some force, writing on the reply: "Kindly ask the secretary of state (Heseltine) to see me immediately (underlined twice) after Cabinet.