Sentence examples for ruling position from inspiring English sources

"The fundamental priority for him is to guarantee the ruling position of the party," said historian Zhang Lifan.

This new middle class was greatly interested in stability, which led to a consolidation of the ruling position of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) (Jiyû minshu tô).30.30

Furthermore, because the military arts proved insufficient to enable warriors to grasp political power and thereby maintain their ruling position, there arose a philosophy of bumbu-kembi, which asserted the desirability of being proficient in both literary and military arts.

"If we do not crack down on corruption, the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the people will suffer a lot and the party will be in danger of losing its ruling position, or possibly heading for self-destruction," he said, in one of the bluntest admissions yet about an issue that has corroded public faith in the ruling party.

The triumph of the Knights of St John, who were put in charge of Malta by mandate of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530, consolidated their ruling position as the guardians of the Christian faith in the country until the invasion by French troops at the end of the 18th century.

"If we do not crack down on corruption, the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the people will suffer a lot and the party will be in danger of losing its ruling position, or possibly heading for self-destruction," Jiang declared in 2002, in his last political report to the National Congress.

He was the eldest surviving son born to one of the Bonaparte siblings (Joseph, Napoleon, Lucien, Elisa, Louis, Pauline, Caroline and Jérôme, most of which would later receive ruling positions in their brother's client states).

Mr Abe himself is leaving his faction, as Mr Koizumi did an inconceivable move when faction bosses were kingmakers not long ago.Another change is the way authority has accrued to the prime minister's office within government, and to the secretary-general within the ruling party, a position now in the gift of the prime minister.

But the ruling party's position is tricky.

In fact, the Obama administration had just taken the very opposite position, ruling that states should maintain "common sense exemptions" for tractor-driving farmers.

But the Court again rejected the White House's position, ruling, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, that Congress, and not just the President, must establish the rules for trying the prisoners.