A bipartisan agreement in 1996 went further, banning party business affiliations from such things as monopoly businesses, public-infrastructure projects and investment in China, pending a clear definition of what constitutes a party-controlled business.Nevertheless, there are continuing charges of favouritism, mismanagement and embezzlement.
They don't constitute a party or even an interest group.
These writers don't constitute a party, or a movement or a club, but they have purposes and methods in common: flaneurs, ramblers, climbers, twitchers, urbanists and scryers of signs, tramping about (in good thick socks).
"What constitutes a private party?" asked Bob Rinaolo, a member of Community Board 2, which recommended last month that the State Liquor Authority reject a liquor license application.
Consider the bar on what constitutes a successful dinner party officially lowered.
While not constituting a new party, they will sit together in the House of Commons and take part in question period.
Unlike Syriza in Greece or Podemos in Spain, the organisers of Brazil's protests are not left-wing and do not constitute a political party.
The survey was conducted after Ofcom's suggestion that the Greens did not constitute a major party prompted David Cameron to suggest he would not take part unless they were given a place, sparking a controversy that has had broadcasters scrambling to come up with revised arrangements and smaller parties issuing competing demands about the format.
If these four recent investors were working together, they would constitute a "concert party", with combined ownership above the 30% threshold (Goldilocks and the Three Bears? Some concert).
In short, the fact that an African-American like Obama is now the presumptive Presidential nominee of a major US party constitutes a new and historic breakthrough for American society.
