Sentence examples for consecutive party from inspiring English sources

The Liberals' standing with the public has suffered over the past decade from a major ethics scandal in Quebec and from three consecutive party leaders who had distinguished résumés but left voters unimpressed.

The editorial of Ming Pao Daily News says Xi Jinping could face a personnel problem as five of his colleagues will reach their retirement age by the next party congress in 2017, breaking the chain of stable leadership formation for two consecutive party congress.

Basically: you know that kid you knew in sixth form who, over a three-year period, you took to 20 consecutive parties, and every time he just sort of sulked in one corner, occasionally playing Snake on his phone or moaning about dance music, but mostly just sort of cowering there, his posture slowly curling in on itself with sheer grumpiness?

I probably had eight consecutive parties there, and the routine was like clockwork: a warm-up in the arcade; a couple of games of bowling; a trip up to Zapp Zone (if we were lucky); and then everyone in a pincer movement down to the nearby Pizza Hut to gorge on the buffet and Ice Cream Factory, and hopefully not vomit.

The question now is whether the fourth consecutive Workers' party administration has the dynamism, creativity and nimbleness to address the fresher challenges created by growing middle class expectations, a deteriorating environment (a dire water shortage in São Paulo threatens to be one of the first crises of her second term) and unstable but aggressive capital markets.

This will strike many parents as a consummation devoutly to be dreaded, akin to a sentence of consecutive birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese's.

"We're going to have massive turnout". The Republican race appeared more competitive on primary eve, but the Democratic contest holds the greater significance, if only because of what it may say about the future of the couple who gave the party consecutive White House terms for the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.

I will give you a squillion pounds if you can think of a more depressing place/time combination than the Playboy Club, Las Vegas during Corey Feldman's 4th consecutive 40th birthday party.

At Westminster, Herbert Asquith, son of a Yorkshire tradesman, presided over a fifth consecutive year of Liberal party government.

"We had our chance and we blew it," says Eric Cantor, the majority leader in the House of Representatives, of the party's consecutive terms in government between 2000 and 2008.

Suddenly, Stephen Byers was popping up on every current affairs programme to explain how, by living in the past, I had lost the Labour party four consecutive general elections.