Sentence examples for favoured party from inspiring English sources

Their favoured party all but swept the board in provincial elections the day before.

The Conservatives are now neck and neck with Labour as the favoured party of gay voters, according to an opinion poll for PinkNews.

When the opposing parties in the Mahabharata war stand ready to begin battle, Arjuna, the hero of the favoured party, despairs at the thought of having to kill his kinsmen and lays down his arms.

The shift from Labour in 2005 to the Liberal Democrats in 2010 as the most favoured party for gay voters seemingly ignores the efforts that David Cameron made to make his party more attractive to them.

To minimise cognitive dissonance – the gulf between what we perceive and what we believe – we either adjust our views to those of our favoured party or avoid discovering what the party really stands for.

The survey by TNS UK found that the Liberal Democrats were the favoured party of coalition for supporters of both the Conservatives (31%) and Labour (32%) if either party does not win an outright majority.

These (notably, the Kremlin's own favoured parties and the Communists) have either a grim record, or (notably, the power-shunning centre-left liberals in Grigory Yavlinsky's Yabloko) no record at all.What unites Mr Primakov and Mr Luzhkov is a belief in Russian state power: discipline at home, respect abroad.

The winner-take-all system generally favoured major parties over minor parties, large states over small states, and cohesive voting groups concentrated in large states over those that were more diffusely dispersed across the country.

He organised regular visits from sex workers, had a cell phone to conduct business and attended favoured inmate parties with drink and lobster bisque.

It would also amount to indirect interference in the political and electoral processes in the Member States, since it would - through the planned funding - give rise to 'favoured' and 'non-favoured' political parties, with subsequent repercussions on the results of the European Parliament elections.

When Smith died in 1994, however, Blair had overtaken Brown as the favoured candidate of party activists and the wider public.