When major parties merely party, the stage is set and the curtain opens for independent nominations.
In closing arguments yesterday and in testimony heard since the trial began last week, it was clear that, whoever might be right, there were not merely two parties coming to court to sort out opposing legal claims, but two parties culturally chafing up against each other with opposing worldviews.
There was no tightly organized "Liberal Party" as such but merely various parties and parliamentary groups that formed a dominant voting bloc of basically conservative deputies in the national parliament.
Eric Voegelin was one of the first to observe that both Italian Fascism and German National Socialism were more than merely political parties or regimes; rather, they exhibited certain traits of religious movements.
He did not foresee the constitutional turmoil this apparently straightforward arrangement would cause when a party election was forced when the Conservatives were in power, so that Conservative MPs would be electing not merely a party leader but a prime minister as well.
IT IS not merely a party stronghold, but a place where history was made.
The ski resort of Breckenridge is not content to be merely the party capital of the Colorado Rockies — now it wants to be the Amsterdam, too.
He explained that if Thursday's votes were merely a party-line exercise, there should be more changes to the nation's asylum laws, according to one of the people who attended the lunch.
Radical and raucous: Natalie Bennett is confident the UK would adapt to the chilled-out, kibbutz lifestyle (© Seth Watkins) No longer merely the party of 'recycling bores too timid to spoil their ballot paper', today's Greens are the serious party for radical and raucous change.
Some skeptics also say that Koenig hasn't done much with the head start, that he is merely a party boy — the Paris Hilton of Germany, as one art-world figure said to me, with an anonymous unkindness that seems typical of the trade.
But a new wave of applicants merely sees party membership as good for their careers.
