Sentence examples for parties shape from inspiring English sources

So how do the parties shape up?

The author disputes this by arguing that conventions let the parties shape their images and platforms.

Throughout Europe, xenophobic and racist parties shape the agenda, preying on people's ignorance and fear.

And we will look at how presidents change the political parties they belong to and how their parties shape and constrain presidential action.

We seek to ask how formal and semi-formal institutions like parties shape and connect the nodes of political life – from the formation of legislation, to public opinion, and local/regional power structures.

As if to prove his point, polls today both reflect public opinion and are used to test policies and messages that help political parties shape that very same public opinion.

This general election will not be won and lost at the national level, as such contests normally were in the second half of the 20th century, when there was a standard Conservative-Labour battle in most constituencies, and when a broadly uniform national swing between the big two parties shaped the final verdict.

"We're calling on both Iraqis and the parties shaping Iraqi society to make the protection of children job number one," said Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF.

Theoretically, I address how electoral threats to the ruling party shape the incentives of politicians to deliver benefits to core and non-core interest organizations.

To debate: At the Washington Post, Dan Balz asks: Will the 2012 G.O.P. Presidential nominee re-shape the Republican Party or will the party shape the candidate?

The remaining members of the gang of four, and more disinterested politicians and historians, have long argued that the SDP's ideas – such as the "classless society" and "more responsive public services" called for in the Limehouse declaration – outlived the party, shaping the Lib Dems, New Labour, even the Conservatives.