Sentence examples for from opposite parties from inspiring English sources
SCORECARD -- This spot tries to address two competitors, from opposite parties, in one televised swoop.
Most real debates, by House standards, are divided equally between opponents and supporters of a measure, usually from opposite parties.
In the past, the regions and the central government, usually from opposite parties, could blame one another for whatever fiscal issues arose.
So he proposed something of a political stunt: Why not rent a car together — two politicians from opposite parties, from politically pugnacious Texas, of all places — and broadcast their trip to Washington as a live bipartisan town hall?
He [Sarkozy] was a friend of mine for a long time … It can't be easy to be president, even when he tried to do things, there was always a spoke in the wheel, whether from opposite parties or elsewhere.
Two prominent senators from opposite parties accused the White House today of deliberately sabotaging their efforts to create an independent investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks, suggesting that the administration was afraid a commission might turn up embarrassing government mistakes.
In a case that involved an unprecedented public showing of support for the President's exercise of executive authority in DAPA and expanded DACA, the Court instead, through its inaction, left in place a preliminary injunction in highly partisan, politicized litigation involving 26 state governments - most led by governors from one party - against a president from the opposite party.
My colleague cites him as a model for a more reasonable brand of Republicanism, one that accepts that government has a job to do and that compromises must be struck with the opposition: "he's likable, he works with people from the opposite party and he governs well".
These days, senators who hang out with their peers from the opposite party are both extremely scarce and slightly suspect.
At TEDxNYED, former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative.
