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This meant the party would have been unseated as the government if it failed to retain the seat, and it would have required the formation of a coalition or a confidence and supply agreement with New Zealand First or the Alliance to maintain governance ( a snap general election to reinforce National's mandate was not possible due electorate boundaries for the new Mixed Member Proportional voting system not being fully implemented yet ).
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Gorbachev's policy of glasnost ( literally openess ) meant the gradual democratisation of the party.
In June 1988, at the CPSU's Nineteenth Party Conference, Gorbachev launched radical reforms meant to reduce party control of the government apparatus.
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.
Menzies ' domination of the party, and the fact that Holt's succession had been established for many years, meant that a secure second rank of leadership had not been developed.
Education came under the total control of state, which meant, in effect, the Kuomintang party, via the Ministry of Education.
In opposition to the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states ; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default ; and that Germany was seeking to turn the ICJ into an international court of criminal appeal.
After Labour Listens, the party went on, in 1988, to produce a new statement of aims and values — meant to supplement and supplant the formulation of Clause IV of the party's constitution ( though, crucially, this was not actually replaced until 1995 under the leadership of Tony Blair ) and was closely modelled on Anthony Crosland's social-democratic thinking — emphasising equality rather than public ownership.
In June 1988, at the CPSU's Nineteenth Party Conference, the first held since 1941, Gorbachev and his supporters launched radical reforms meant to reduce party control of the government apparatus.
The Labor Party did not emerge as a major party until after 1910, which meant that Victoria was slow to develop a two-party system.
It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do … By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever according to the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Repeated motions must be " so devoid of merit and be so frivolous that they can be described as a flagrant abuse of the system, have no reasonable probability of success, lack reasonable or probable cause or excuse, and are clearly meant to abuse the processes of the courts and to harass the adverse party than other litigants.
The ruthless pursuit of Nazi aims turned out to mean not, as Rosenberg had hoped, the permeation of German life with the new ideology ; it meant concentration of the combined resources of party and state on total war.
Under Liberal caucus rules of the time, a tied vote meant the motion was automatically defeated, and hence Gorton could have remained as party leader and Prime Minister without further ado.
The party room vote on a motion of no confidence was initially tied, which meant the motion was lost.
Southern Democrats, for whom slavery had always been central, had little difficulty in perceiving exactly what the proviso meant for them and their party.
Ulbricht's preoccupation with science meant that more and more control of the economy was being relegated from the party to specialists.
( The Democratic Party held a two-thirds majority in the 89th Congress of 1965, but regional divisions among Democrats meant that many filibusters were invoked by Southern Democrats against civil rights bills supported by the Northern wing of the party ).
For revenge, Eris threw the golden Apple of Discord inscribed with the word " Kallisti " — " For the fairest " — into the party, provoking a squabble among the attendant goddesses over for whom it had been meant.
The split in the Radical party over Boulangism weakened his hand, and its collapse meant that moderate Republicans did not need his help.
For example, it meant that the project of building an open and independent Trotskyist party was shelved in France, because it was regarded as not politically feasible alongside entry into the French Communist Party.
Education came under the total control of state, which meant, in effect, the Kuomintang party, via the Ministry of Education.
This meant that the original One Nation party was unable to gain registration for NSW elections, and that any candidates which that party chose to represent them at state elections could not use the party name.
meant and would
Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.
It removes our present expression and shows that the badness we meant would not be affected by this, whereas on positivist grounds it should be.
Since Fogg's was a one-man, one-plane flying service, this meant that he would have to do both trips, flying alone 600 miles a day, under sub-freezing temperature conditions.
Mr. Phillips took a razor to Gonzalez, Prop., but left the promise that Spanish would be understood because he thought it meant that Spanish clientele would be welcome.
Their demand against the Calvinist Orthodoxy for intellectual liberty had never meant that they would follow `` free inquiry '' to the extreme of proclaiming Christianity a `` natural '' religion.
The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out, by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot.
At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.
It meant that a liberal and a conservative prime minister would succeed each other ending the strifes.
The breadth of slave ownership also meant that the leisure of the rich ( the small minority who were actually free of the need to work ) rested less than it would have on the exploitation of their less well-off fellow citizens.
However, after the cancellations of Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were finalized in September 1970 it meant that this crew would not rotate to a lunar mission as planned.
In one paragraph he wrote: " The laws of this country will of course, be introduced in South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take place from the moment his Majesty's forces take possession of the country: That there can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves ", and he meant what he said.
This meant that the plane would roll in the direction opposite to that which the pilot intended, and led to a number of accidents.
This description would actually have meant that the whole of the Baltic Sea had been covered with ice.
Despite the outstanding victories, Germany was near defeat, which meant that Bulgaria would be left without its most powerful ally.
This meant that in discussing conflicts between kingdoms, the date would have to be given in the regnal years of all the kings involved.
Carolyn Pressler, in a recent commentary for the Westminster Bible Companion series, suggests that readers of Joshua should give priority to its theological message (" what passages teach about God ") and be aware of what these would have meant to audiences in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.
The direction of the wind meant that the French rear division would be unable to easily join the battle and would be cut off from the front portions of the line.
Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.
Charles I ’ s haste to make peace with France on the terms most beneficial to him meant that the new North American gains would be bargained away in the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ( 1632 ).
But Ernest Klein ( citing Karl Brugmann ) rejects this and suggests * cri-men, which originally would have meant " cry of distress ".
Adam Smith illustrates this view, saying that a smuggler would be an excellent citizen, "... had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so.
The requirement would have meant that Bell would have to move its oldest and most loyal customers.
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