Sentence examples for party close from inspiring English sources

As he was speaking, hundreds of members of a legal party close to Mr Ocalan were arrested.In this section Putting it right Who really runs Germany?

He is a member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, which is a religious party close to Iran and ruled the province until January's elections, when it lost to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's party throughout the south.

The meetings are the latest part of a "mass-line" campaign led by Xi Jinping, China's president and party chief, to keep the party close to the people.In 1949 Mao Zedong said the party had "the Marxist-Leninist weapon of criticism and self-criticism".

The conjuncture in 2010 of a Labour party that has lost so much public confidence and a Conservative party that has not yet won it has enabled Mr Clegg to take his party close to the threshold of real influence for the first time in nearly 90 years.

The current leader of the Conservatives, David Cameron, has brought his party close to victory after 14 years in the wilderness, and his potential success bears some lessons for Republicans, even accounting for transatlantic differences.

The influx of Democratic mega-donor money has helped the party close the gap in independent spending as it works to protect its Senate majority in a tough election.

The party closed ranks, promised to listen to its membership more closely, installed fresh leaders and plotted the first steps out of the abyss.

After losing to Sutch the party closed down.

The party closes itself off to outsiders and alienates moderate supporters.

Or indeed when a political party closes ranks along tribal lines.

After the Socialists were decimated in local elections last May, the party closed ranks around Mr. Rubalcaba to avoid divisive primaries before national elections.