Sentence examples for party designations from inspiring English sources

Irish politicians are expected to be chummy, and it was only in 1965 that ballots even included party designations.

In the director's efforts to strike a less time-specific tone that would tilt his movie away from the anti-Communist leanings of the book's author (Drury was a onetime New York Times journalist whose novel echoed prevailing cold war anxieties), Preminger had his screenwriter dispense with the use of party designations for his characters.

Mr. Bloomberg's letter seemed intended to blunt two of the main criticisms of his attempt to change municipal elections: that he wants to benefit personally as a left-leaning Republican who does not fit neatly into a party himself, and that without party designations, voters would be too perplexed to understand who they were voting for.

Judges are elected without party designation.

The cannons fired as part of Operation Cobra, the covert party designation from Sarah Davis.

"Minnesota's State Legislature, for the first time since party designation in Minnesota, both houses are in Republican hands".

The present ballot was adapted from old punch-card ballots, and computers rejected any ballot without a party designation.

But he said that his party designation would not be a handicap in the Council's chambers.

"I went in person on my lunch hour and, lo and behold, was told for the very first time that my party designation can only ever be changed during November each year," he explained.

"That said, again, I think most people vote regardless of the party designation.

With the largely preordained voting at the Democratic State Convention yesterday, it was no surprise that Bill Mulrow, a Westchester businessman, would win the party's designation for comptroller.