Sentence examples for half party from inspiring English sources

I had heard about these events -- half test drive, half party.

And the song's intent was complicated: half party, half protest, invoking the joy of a voluntary wedding while inveighing against forced ones.

Half party, half farmers market, this midday purgatory continued for some time.

Traditionally Germany was known as a two-and-a-half party system in the political science literature, meaning that the two big parties (CDU and SPD) needed one small (half) party for its coalition governments (the FDP).

Be half business, half party.

For the next decade, every couple of years or so, the tribes would gather in Pasadena, Calif., for weeklong planetary encounters that were half celebrations of humanity and curiosity, half parties.

Miliband, after accusing Cameron of being paralysed by fear of his backbenchers, responded to Cameron's unexpected announcement by saying: "We look forward to voting together – two parties working together in the national interest, or one and a half parties working together in the national interest".

Though often described as a two-party system, Britain has since the 1980s actually been a two-and-a-half party system, with a few footnotes.

He called it a "one-and-a-half party" system in which the dominant Liberal Democrats maneuvered with minority parties to govern.

Armen Darbinian, a former Armenian prime minister, quips that his and other post-Soviet countries have become "one-and-a-half party states": a party of power, plus others that are basically decorative.

"What this also represents is the fact that two (or if we are being charitable two-and-a-half) party politics has very much broken down as a system.