The party instituted gender-based affirmative action in 1940 by requiring the Republican National Committee to have one woman and one man from each state, decades in advance of similar reforms by the Democrats.
For me, London Road's most extraordinary sequence is the local street party instituted to judge the first "in bloom" garden competition, which will decide who has the nicest display of hanging baskets.
He was not a doctrinaire Nazi: one of his students recalled that, when the party instituted a series of compulsory political education lectures, Heidegger shooed a student making a party-line speech off the stage ("This jabber will stop immediately!," he's said to have shouted) and replaced him with a speaker who talked about Sigmund Freud.
The new party instituted a number of changes in its political program, carefully moderating some of the more extreme positions of the former Vlaams Blok.
Republican state parties often instituted complex registration and procedural rules to limit the number of votes cast by supporters of urban Democratic machines; frequently the machines, dominated by Irish politicians, learned to live with the rules and then used them to restrict the participation of other immigrant groups.
In a press release Cooley explained that the veto on bachelorette parties was instituted "as a sign of solidarity until marriage is legal everywhere for everyone".
After narrow defeat in the general election of 1964 Douglas-Home resigned the leadership of his party, having instituted a new and less secretive method of electing the party leader.
In 2011, Evangelos Venizelos, who was then the finance minister and is now the leader of the socialist party, Pasok, instituted a new property-tax law.
Mr. Aghailas said in a recent interview that Mr. Curtis's party had instituted a very selective registration process that ensured support of its slate by most voters.
For example, cities and states governed by the party have instituted participatory budgeting programs in which people in neighborhoods decide how parts of municipal budgets should be spent.
