Sentence examples for on a party basis from inspiring English sources

In some, like Texas, judges are elected and re-elected on a party basis.

And only ten out of 77 seats in the lower house of parliament are filled on a party basis.

Candidates in December's local elections will be allowed to contest the seats only as independents, not on a party basis.

Elections are fought and successful candidates find their seats in the legislature on a party basis, and it is through parties that the Upper and Lower House and their committees conduct business.

"Sinn Féin and the SDLP can no longer say they work on a cross party basis when they make these decisions without discussion".

The company pays clowns on a per party basis somewhere between 20 and 40 bucks.

It's obvious that the city needs long-term transport solutions, but infrastructure projects are debated on a party political basis – there's not enough consensus-building or long-term vision.

He said that when the time was right the government would introduce a new public health bill and, on a cross-party basis, a law to remove the defence of "reasonable chastisement" – smacking.

"The judge-led inquiry will, of course, during the course of a year, produce some ideas about what we should do - and then I think if we can act on it on a cross-party basis.

"We'll run this on a cross-party basis, because a national project like this doesn't belong to us – it belongs to the country," she said.

When Labour originally set up the Browne review last year, they did so on a cross-party basis and so there was a neat symmetry in both coalition parties quickly accepting the direction it set out.