Moreover, compared to close governing party losses, there is a sharp drop in turnout and contending party votes in close governing party wins.
Parliamentary elections followed in October under the limitations imposed by the LFO, and Musharraf's adopted political party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q), took more of the seats in the National Assembly than any other contending party.
"No one asked the rest of us whether we want to live in a society in which everything objectionable to every contending party has been expunged from our reading materials," she notes.
A plurality the biggest vote then wins.The contending parties start with the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, now led by Alain Juppé, the prime minister.
When contending parties invoke the process of the courts, however, it becomes our unsought responsibility to resolve the federal and constitutional issues the judicial system has been forced to confront.
The Internet is in the midst of a kind of 'constitutional crisis,' with contending parties struggling, largely out of public view, for control of the'root', the one central point of authority on which the functioning of the Internet depends.
IN THE convoluted dramas in the seas around China, Taiwan is often cast as a bit player, the optional extra to the lengthy lists of contending parties to the many territorial disputes.
A major item on the agenda of the Council of Constance was the challenge posed to the authority of both contending parties, council as well as pope, by the teachings of the Czech preacher Jan Hus.
In an acerbic, disabused, but ultimately convincing book, "Lincoln the Lawyer," the historian Brian Dirck argues that Lincoln took away from the practice of law and the love of legal language both a feeling for "grease" — that is, for finding an acceptable middle ground between contending parties — and a habit of detachment.
He was not a zealous politician, describing himself as "amid the Rage of contending Parties, a Man of Moderation". He spoke mainly on legal and constitutional questions, the most conspicuous of which was the Middlesex election of 1769, when he supported the expulsion of the political reformer John Wilkes from the House of Commons.
Because contending parties will be led by their intuitions to see different stipulations as reasonable, conceptual analysis will be very unlikely to decide between competing analyses that are all reasonably successful at capturing core cases.
