Sentence examples for democratic plank from inspiring English sources

The Republicans were in favor of ballistic-missile defense, so Mr. Clinton made it part of the Democratic plank too.

But Democrats should really consider the fact that lower-income people smoke at a higher rate than any other group in America, so therefore we will be taxing those least able to pay for a very noble cause... but taxing the poor isn't exactly a traditional Democratic plank.

Castro's proposal includes the usual Democratic planks on Dreamers, family separation and other issues, but then goes further.

The Democratic platform plank stated the opposite: any time, for any reason.

— and as long as I have a voice in the United States Senate, it's going to be for that Democratic platform plank that provides decent quality health care.

The Liberals, meanwhile, have taken a more highbrow approach to policy that includes democratic renewal planks like reforming Canada's "first past the post" voting system.

In another bad moment for women, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd today bashed Hillary Clinton supporters for wanting to add to the Democratic platform a plank addressing the "pervasive gender bias in the media" exposed during the Democratic primaries, including a demand that party leaders denounce future examples of such bias.

Mr. Bradley said Mr. Gore's attacks against his plan "have cast doubt on his commitment to a basic plank of Democratic platform, which is national health insurance".

The Democratic platform includes a plank called "Staying True to Our Values at Home," which pledges to make sure that the nation's antiterrorism efforts do not run afoul of the Constitution or people's civil liberties — a pledge critics say has not always been kept in the last four years.

Eliminating the national debt has not been a plank of any Democratic economic program in living memory, and most Democrats who are now talking gravely about its importance have never uttered the words "eliminate the debt" before.

SUNDAYBUSINESS, PART 2 A New Plank for Democrats A draft of the Democratic platform calls for a wholesale rewriting of President Bush's national security strategy.