party boss
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpartyandboss
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party
noun
uk/ˈpɑː.ti/us/ˈpɑːr.t̬i/
a social event at which a group of people meet to talk, eat, drink, dance, etc., often in order to celebrate a ...
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boss
adjective
uk/bɒs/us/bɑːs/
very good ...
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(Definition ofpartyandbossfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They have come down in favour of party control, rather than representative democracy—not voter choice, but control by the party bosses.
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They will be totally beholden to and owned by the party bosses.
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The whole point of closed lists is to transfer power from the public to the party bosses.
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The powers-that-be, the party bosses, run the council and dictate to the officers.
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The localpartybossexplained why his first wife was so valuable to him.
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Local parties sometimes function like charity organizations; the localpartybossdevelops a charity plan and persuades local business people to help the poor.
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Haven't we had enough of the wrongdoings of thispartyboss?
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It means delegating the power to thepartybosson that committee.
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They are nominated according to service to thepartyboss.
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This story may have been a factor in his selection aspartyboss.
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The party bosses dared not alienate the popular base he had built up.
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Most important, did their institutional behavior reflect direct responsiveness to state legislators, party bosses, business leaders, constituents, or some combination thereof?
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It also shows that town politics were not simply determined by the whim of party bosses and gentry borough-mongers.
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Just the opposite happens in right wing parties, which tend to be oriented mostly towards the desires of party bosses.
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We have based our theoretical arguments on the different monitoring constraints that stem mainly from differences in how politicians are evaluated by voters, their party bosses or opposition politicians.
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All the discussion about control freaks, centralisation and party bosses is totally irrelevant to the issue of whether we have open or closed lists.
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I oppose that extremely strongly, because it would put far more power and patronage into the hands of the party bosses than there is today.
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That will be particularly so if they are not elected on the form of electoral lists chosen by party bosses.
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The party bosses would determine who was top of the list.
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