Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

By the early twentieth century, both parties were winning increasing numbers of seats in Congress.

The Catholic Church holds the position the there is no moral impediment to gambling, so long as it is fair, all bettors have a reasonable chance of winning, there is no fraud involved, and the parties involved do not have actual knowledge of the outcome of the bet ( unless they have disclosed this knowledge )

The three smaller parties thus have more seats in the German Bundestag than ever before, with the liberal party FDP winning 14. 6 % of votes.

Having treated with both parties, and received lavish promises from them, he appears to have hoped to be Emperor himself ; but when the election came, he turned to the winning side and voted for Charles.

In the 1998 elections, the Latvian party structure began to consolidate with only six parties winning seats in the Saeima.

The Nationals experienced difficulties in the late 1990s from two fronts – firstly from the Liberal Party, who were winning seats on the basis that the Nationals were not seen to be a sufficiently separate party, and from the One Nation Party riding a swell of rural discontent with many of the policies such as multiculturalism and gun control embraced by all of the major parties.

However, the new system again appeared to have failed, as although Barak's One Israel party ( an alliance of Labour, Gesher and Meimad ) won more votes than any other party in the Knesset election, they garnered only 26 seats, the lowest ever by a winning party, meaning that a coalition with six smaller parties was once again necessary.

In these cases, the chances for third party candidates winning election to any office are remote, although it's possible for groups within the larger parties, or in opposition to one or both of them, to exert influence on the two major parties.

Third parties, meaning a party other than one of the two dominant parties, are possible in two-party systems, but they are unlikely to exert much influence by gaining control of legislatures or by winning elections.

Third parties don't affect American politics by winning elections, but they can act as " spoilers " by taking votes from one of the two major parties.

Multi-party governments permit wider and more diverse viewpoints in government, and encourage dominant parties to make deals with weaker parties to form winning coalitions.

As Australia also uses a ranked voting system supporters of minor parties are not disenfranchised as their votes are redistributed to other candidates according to the voter's nominated order of preference which can then form part of another candidates winning quota.

In the 1996 general election the League gained 7 out of 8 single-seat constituencies in the Province of Bergamo and 5 out of 6 in the Province of Vicenza, winning well over 40 %, while the combined score of the three main post-DC parties ( the new PPI, the CCD and the CDU ) was highest in Campania ( 22. 3 %).

One is the result of the " fusion " ( or an alliance very much like fusion ) of the weak parties, and the other is the " elimination " of weak parties by the voters, by which he means that voters gradually desert the weak parties on the grounds that they have no chance of winning.

Two years later, NWA president Sam Muchnick and McMahon discussed a unification match between Thesz and Sammartino, with both parties agreeing to Sammartino winning the unified title.

However, no women were elected to office in that year ’ s polls and instead Shī ´ a and Sunnī Islamic parties dominated the election, collectively winning a majority of seats.

During the summer of 2008, a club takeover was agreed between Cazzola and an American-based consortium ; this was, however, cancelled in the end, following disagreements between the parties, and the club was successively sold to a local group led by new chairman Francesca Menarini, who thus became the second female chairman in the whole Serie A. Arrigoni was confirmed as head coach by the new group, and the start appeared to be particularly impressive, with a surprising 2 – 1 win at San Siro against Milan thanks to a winning goal scored by Francesco Valiani.

This system is found in emerging democracies like post-communist Russia, where new national parties were evolving, and the voting system was intended to foster them, while allowing local independent members to win local seats, many of whom then joined the winning party.

For example, even if a bidder knew the University of North Carolina would be the tournament winner and thus pay out 32 % of the pool, she would still be unsure of the exact value of the team ( unless it was the last team being bid on ) since the payout depends on the sum total of all winning bids, i. e. the final size of the pool.

So while one bot may be very effective at dodging simple targeting with 90 % accuracy, and thus gets a high APS score, another bot may only dodge with 70 % accuracy ( i. e. still winning ) but be able to fight stronger bots more effectively.

In British English, majority and plurality are often used as synonyms, and the term majority is also alternatively used to refer to the winning margin, i. e. the number of votes separating the first-place finisher from the second-place finisher.

But " Militant did stand for what its proponents intended: the aim of winning in the first instance, the most conscious, combative, fighting, i. e. militant, sections of the working class.

If the score is tied at 1 less than the originally agreed winning total ( i. e. 10-10 or 14-14 ) then the winning total is increased by 1 ( 12 and 16, respectively ) but no further ( unlike in tennis where you have to win by 2 points in a tie-break ).

He contrasts it with the scarcity mindset ( i. e., destructive and unnecessary competition ), which is founded on the idea that, if someone else wins or is successful in a situation, that means you lose ; not considering the possibility of all parties winning ( in some way or another ) in a given situation.

The SWOC encountered equally serious problems: after winning union recognition after a strike against Jones & Laughlin Steel, SWOC's strikes against the rest of " Little Steel ," i. e., Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, National Steel, Inland Steel American Rolling Mills and Republic Steel failed, in spite of support from organizations like the Catholic Radical Alliance.

The Qu ' aiti dynasty was founded by ' Umar bin Awadh al-Qu ’ aiti, a Yafa ’ i tribesman from Southern Arabia, whose wealth and influence as hereditary Jemadar of the Nizam of Hyderabad's armed forces enabled him to establish the Qu ' aiti dynasty in the latter half of the 19th century, winning British recognition of his paramount status in the region, in 1882.

Athlete, winning in the overall total score ( i. e. total score for all disciplines ) of the World Cup season, is awarded the Big Crystal Globe trophy.

Will 1X would change his name to will. i. am and the Atban Klann would add Taboo and later Fergie and become the Grammy award winning band, The Black Eyed Peas.

A coalitional game is simple if payoffs are either 1 or 0, i. e., coalitions are either " winning " or " losing ".

An entry, in trick-taking card games such as bridge, is a means of gaining the lead in a particular hand, i. e. winning the trick in that hand.

Throughout the mid-1990s, Anoa ' i competed in various independent promotions, winning various tag team championships.

If the player's character ends up winning ( i. e. Plucky outweighing Li ' l Beeper ), the player will get an extra life, while nothing happens either if the computer wins ( i. e. Sweetie is outweighed by Shirley ) or if the round ends in a tie ( i. e. choosing Elmyra against Montana Max ).

In combinatorial game theory, the strategy-stealing argument is a general argument that shows, for many games, that the second player cannot have a winning strategy ( i. e., a strategy that will always win the game for them, no matter what moves the first player makes ).

5 % commission is charged on all winning wagers, and players may not " bet their commission " ( i. e. bet $ 21 to win $ 20 ), which reduces commission by 0. 24 %

Sperm competition is often compared to having tickets in a raffle ; a male has a better chance of winning ( i. e. fathering offspring ) the more tickets he has ( i. e. the more sperm he inseminates a female with ).

The implied probabilities, i. e. probability of each horse winning, add up to a number greater than 1.

Resource management involves the players establishing relative values for various types of available resources, in the context of the current state of the game and the desired outcome ( i. e. winning the game ).

Then, every game of length ω where both players choose real numbers is determined, i. e., one of the two players has a winning strategy.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

There are ghostly scenes in which the little boy on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax that will magically give him the name of the winning horse.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

Some of the most dramatic successes of Communism in winning local support can be traced to the identification -- correct or not -- of Communist regimes with personal honesty and pro-Western regimes with corruption.

Monel shows improvement with each work-out and looks the makings of a good brood mare after winning her share of races.

Such sweeping distractions are hardly conducive to `` Oscar '' winning performances.

The results of the election of 1859 found Republican candidates not only winning the offices of governor and lieutenant-governor but also obtaining the two Congressional offices from the eastern and western sections of the state.

The issue was settled on shore, Greene winning and Wilson remaining ashore, determined to catch the next fishing boat back to England.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

but it becomes very important if foreign peoples react the way human beings typically do -- namely, by taking steps to end up on what appears to be the winning side.

Perier's efforts, however, were on the whole ineffective in winning back the tribes of the Mobile district, and he decided to send troops into the troubled country.

Then Heywood Sullivan, Kansas City catcher, singled up the middle and Throneberry was across with what proved to be the winning run.

She was moving up to the allowance department after winning a $10,000 claiming event.

It was the first time we've been ahead this season ( when John Richey kicked what proved to be the winning field goal ) ''.

It was Nischwitz' third straight victory of the new season and ran the Grizzlies' winning streak to four straight.

-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.

At a ceremony in the reception room of Mayor Richardson Dilworth, the Eagles were honored for winning the championship.

Palmer, golf's leading money-winner in 1960, and Snead will be saluted as the winning team in the Canada Cup matches last June in Dublin.

`` By winning against Bradley, Kentucky and Notre Dame on those teams' home courts, they showed that the home court advantage can be overcome anywhere and that it doesn't take a super team to do it ''.

For winning Larson will receive a $100 U.S. Savings Bond from the Junior Achievement national organization.

Also winning blue ribbons were Bob Day of Beaverton, Tony Traxel of Beaverton and Steve Hutchins of Banks.

Swine showmanship championship went to Bob Day, with Tom Day and Hutchins winning other blues.

The liberals, smelling blood, were faced with the necessity of winning three big votes -- in the Democratic Committee on Committees, in the full party caucus, and on the floor of the House -- before they could oust Colmer.