Sentence examples for split party from inspiring English sources
There is a growing fear that whoever wins the leadership contest will face a split party.
May began with a slim Commons majority and a split party.
Congress's fortunes have since slumped there, the result of a split party and a row with a local strongman.
That tactical line served a split party well, keeping enough people on both sides of its Brexit divide tolerably content.
By 1962 the AG was in crisis, with a split party, and a state of emergency in the west.
The split party lost to Mr. Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election, which precipitated the secession of Southern states and the Civil War.
Mainstream parties live, uneasily, with the split; new parties, outsider parties and protest parties exploit it.
Nor is a split-party Congress likely to agree to a congressional budget.
Where Mayhew had argued that there was no difference in performance by unified and divided governments, Binder found that split-party governments are less productive.
On Thursday and Friday, the poll showed that 50percentt of likely voters wanted one party to control both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and that 30percentt preferred split-party rule.
Indeed, as shown in the figure below, split-party congresses (1981-1986, 2011-2013, 2011-2013) face legislative stalemate more frequently on salient issues than do congresses with unified or completely divided control.
