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party and leaders
The Tory leaders, he insinuates, are cynically using the Church as a political `` By-word '' to increase party friction and keep themselves in power.
He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.
State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.
Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.
The widespread purge that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job.
But it will include 200-odd officeholders, organization leaders and `` interested party people ''.
At the same time reaction among anti-organization Democratic leaders and in the Liberal party to the Mayor's reported plan was generally favorable.
Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.
Lincoln brought leaders of various factions of his party into his cabinet and pressured them to cooperate.
On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.
The government tried to stop the ANC by banning party leaders and enacting new laws to stop the ANC, however these measures ultimately proved to be ineffective.
Harcourt's resignation briefly muted the turmoil in the party, but the beginning of the Second Boer War soon nearly broke the party apart, with Rosebery and a circle of supporters including important future Liberal leaders H. H.
The party also received a boost with the recruitment of former student leaders from outside the Labour Party.
Having accused the government of fraud, six opposition leaders were arrested ( twice ) and one opposition party activist was killed following the announcement of election results.
According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.
In the 2000s, CPC leaders debated changing the party's name to remove the " Communist " label, but ultimately decided against it, fearing the emergence of a splinter Communist party.
The system before Lenin was forced to leave was similar to that of parliamentary systems were the party cabinet, and not the party leadership, were the actual leaders of the country.
Beria was no easy man to defeat, and his ethnicisation policies ( that a local or republican leaders had to have ethnic origins, and speak the language of the given area ) proved to be a tool to strengthen the MVD's grip on local party organs.
Under Khrushchev the local party leadership in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) witnessed the largest turnover in provincial leaders since the Great Purge ; two out of three provincial leaders were replaced in 1953 alone.
Every corporation, whether financial or union, as well as every division of the administration, were set up as branches of the party, the CEOs, Union leaders, and division directors being sworn-in as section presidents of the party.

party and compromise
The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.
As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.
The moderate senators and representatives ( who constituted a majority of the Union party ) asked him for only a slight compromise ; their action was really an entreaty that he would unite with them to preserve Congress and the country from the policy of the radicals.
Hoping to achieve a compromise with the state's party bosses, Hughes rejected the option of a direct primary in which voters could choose between declared candidates and instead proposed a complicated system of nominations by party committees.
The state's party bosses, however, rejected this compromise and the state legislature rejected the plan on three occasions in 1909 and 1910.
However, it would soon come around to a more moderate standpoint and while preserving a hard-line attitude to armed struggle, the party began theorizing on various compromise solutions.
The GM may also direct a particular " NPC " that travels with the party ( commonly known as a GMPC ), but this may occasionally be open to abuse since the Game Master having a " pet " NPC may compromise his neutrality.
On one hand, it was next to impossible for them to overthrow Hitler and the party ; on the other, the Allied demand for an unconditional surrender meant no opportunity for a compromise peace, which left the people no option ( in their eyes ) other than continuing the military struggle.
His Critique of the Gotha Programme opposed the tendency of his followers Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel to compromise with the state socialism of Ferdinand Lassalle in the interests of a united socialist party.
In 1999, the Saeima elected Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, a compromise candidate with no party affiliation, to the presidency.
Foot presented himself as a compromise candidate capable, unlike Healey, of uniting the party, which at the time was riven by the grassroots left-wing insurgency centred around Tony Benn.
This establishment of the policy of co-participation represented the search for a new formula of compromise, based on the coexistence of the party in power and the party in opposition.
The Republicans who formed the Whig party, led by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, drew on a Jeffersonian tradition of compromise and balance in government, national unity, territorial expansion, and support for a national transportation network and domestic manufacturing.
No one discovered a compromise that would keep the party united.
The partition is a result of a compromise, essentially brokered by Eumenes, following a conflict of opinion between the party of Meleager, who wishes to give full power to Philip III ( the illegitimate son of King Philip II of Macedon by Philinna of Larissa ), and the party of Perdiccas, who wishes to wait for the birth of the heir of Alexander and his wife, Roxana ( the future Alexander IV ) to give him the throne under the control of a regent.
But Cyril refused to compromise and when he opened his attack ( 437 ) upon Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore, John sided with them and Theodoret assumed the defense of the Antiochian party ( c. 439 ).
" The party took a central role, but tried as far as possible to base its policy on mutual understanding and compromise.
While this reduced their potential delegate count going into the Democratic National Convention, each of these three candidates hoped that the other leading contenders would stumble in the primaries, thus causing the convention's delegates to choose him as a " compromise " candidate acceptable to all factions of the party.
To compromise is to make a deal between different parties where each party gives up part of their demand.
In human relationships " compromise " is frequently said to be an agreement that no party is happy with, this is because the parties involved often feel that they either gave away too much or that they received too little.
After the election, the King suggested a compromise whereby only 50 peers from each side would be allowed to vote, which would also redress the large Unionist majority in the Lords, but Lord Crewe, Liberal leader in the Lords, advised that this would reduce the Lords ' independence as only peers who were loyal party supporters would be picked.
Ben-Gurion refused to accept the compromise and viewed it as a divisive play within the Mapai party.

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