Sentence examples for likud A from inspiring English sources

A bloc of Likud, a party that officially opposes any Palestinian state, is in growing revolt.

"We must sound a different voice from within the Likud, a stronger, much clearer one.

"Against all odds: a great victory for Likud," a beaming Netanyahu told cheering supporters in a speech at party election headquarters in Tel Aviv.

But, after watching the exchange, I realized that the vender's ten-second shouted question had given Likud a fourteen-minute-fifty-second advantage.

He could call an early election but, under Israel's party-list system, that might just give his enemies in Likud a chance to bring a higher proportion of hardliners into the Knesset.

The main parties are Likud, a centre-right party; Kadima, a centrist party; Labour, a centre-left party; Yisrael Beiteinu, a rightwing Russian immigrant party; and Shas, a centre-right party representing Sephardic Jews and led by Eli Yishai.

"There are people in AIPAC who believe that it should be an arm of the Likud, an arm of the Republican Party," he said.

Mr. Peres said that there had been a change within the Likud, an acceptance of the need for a Palestinian state, but that it had yet to formulate a policy to express that.

He was a "Likud prince," a champion of the mass-settlement project.

In an effort to persuade waverers, Mr Netanyahu suggested that "A big Likud means a stable government", with his message plastered on thousands of billboards across the country.

Despite slight variations, elections seem a done deal: Kadima wins comfortably, Labour comes in a distant second, and Likud takes a severe beating.