Sentence examples for democratic partners from inspiring English sources

In one of the worst coalition squabbles so far, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats are fighting their Social Democratic partners over whether the government should assume a stake in the troubled car maker Opel, which employs 25,000 people in Germany.

"I've told my Democratic partners it's time for them to buy some suits.

After initially objecting to state involvement in the defense company, the Free Democratic partners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government softened their objection to a purchase by KfW.

(Some parties on the left disagreed, saying that Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and its Social Democratic partners were "shooting from the hip" — overreacting in the heat of the moment).

"We put on our boots and walked into the ditch — it's muddy and hot and dusty and bugs everywhere — and we're pushing," Mr. Obama said of the efforts of the White House and its Democratic partners in Congress.

The results of the European Parliament election last week suggest that voters put more trust in the conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel to handle the crisis than in her Social Democratic partners under Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Now, the firm is promoting Democratic partner Anthony Podesta.

McCain's Democratic partner in pushing immigration reform this year is Senator Charles Schumer, of New York.

Greece was now a major investor and Yugoslavia a democratic partner.

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

First, there is no general rule that in a grand coalition the social democratic partner always fares badly.