Sentence examples for socialist counterpart from inspiring English sources

By the mid-1960s, the Communist party was winning more votes than its socialist counterpart.

In a televised statement after meeting with his Socialist counterpart, Evangelos Venizelos, Mr. Samaras said the two had agreed on the need to put their differences aside in a country with no strong tradition of coalition rule and form a governing bloc, something they were unable to achieve in elections in early May that yielded largely the same outcome.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was also in Brussels meeting his party's MEPs, the Swedish prime minister and socialist counterparts from other countries.

The consequences for Mr. Zapatero are also hard to predict, because he has maintained an ambiguous relationship with his Socialist counterparts in Catalonia, strained since a contested ruling last June by the Constitutional Court on a Catalan autonomy charter that had already been approved by Catalonia's 5.5 million voters and the national Parliament in 2006.

Why did the Chinese government operate more by means of campaigns even compared with socialist counterparts, such as the traditional Soviet Union?

"We feel in remarks or behaviors that there is sometimes less consideration for a female parliamentarian than for her male counterpart," wrote Olivier Dussopt, a Socialist lawmaker, in the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur.

By Andy Borowitz June 19 , 2012PARIS (The Borowitz Report) — The Fox News Channel reported today that French voters have followed in the footsteps of their American counterparts by electing an openly Socialist man to the office of President.

PARIS (The Borowitz Report)—The Fox News Channel reported today that French voters have followed in the footsteps of their American counterparts by electing an openly Socialist man to the office of President.

That comparison is not an unlikely one: the Spanish socialist leadership is in close contact with their Labour counterparts and are admiring of the third-way politics practised in Britain.

On November 5 a 125-page letter was sent from the Central Committee of the CPSU to its Chinese counterpart ignoring the existence of Albania as a socialist country and "malign[ing] the Party of Labour of Albania".

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama was at best an "ignoramus" for saying the socialist leader exported terrorism and obstructed progress in Latin America.