Sentence examples for given party from inspiring English sources

The directly elected candidates (known as direct mandates) entered the Bundestag, but a given party might then have more candidates than its share of the second votes would imply.

In addition to a meal of crabmeat salad, beef tenderloin and warm madeleines, the 45 guests were given party favors: bottles of red wine with labels that read "Vintage Patterson".

In CBS News/New York Times polls taken in February 2000 and January this year, the percentages of respondents who aligned themselves with a given party or ideology were almost precisely the same.

At a time when the public want politicians to be more accountable, he tells this week's House Magazine, if a politician is elected on a given party manifesto then decides to defect, it should lie with voters whether that politician should remain an MP or not.

His central idea is that the interests of a given party always determine what this party regards as moral principles, and hence, these principles are not universal.

The reason is clear: if the ideology of the judge to be replaced is close to a given party, then this party has no incentive to agree on a different candidate, unless he/she belongs to the same ideological group.

Suburbanites have always given parties -- birthday parties, Memorial Day parties, block parties, Tupperware parties.

Note to party bosses: Give party voters a choice.

And we need to give party members a proper voice.

That gives party bosses handy powers of patronage, but it is deadly for democracy.

With the convention eight days away, 11th-hour scheduling changes are giving party planners headaches.