party caucus

collocation in English

meaningsofpartyandcaucus

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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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caucus
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɔː.kəs/us
/ˈkɑː.kəs/
(a meeting of) a small group of people in a political party or organization who have a lot of influence, or who have ...
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(Definition ofpartyandcaucusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This would imply that the overall median of each committee does not statistically differ from the median of the majoritypartycaucus.
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Such 'mainstream' members may have more in common with most cross-pressured members than with the median member of theirpartycaucus.
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One baseline answer is the median of the majoritypartycaucus.
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The remaining non-conformists experience additional pressure as party leaders use their powers more aggressively to pursue a party agenda preferred by the more homogeneouspartycaucus.
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In the presence of private information, however, negotiators never know for sure the veracity of the other side's claims about which deals would be acceptable to thepartycaucus.
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We would have rule bypartycaucus—we are already beginning to get a taste of that—and, of course, their commissar leaders.
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They are chosen by thepartycaucusfirst.
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The party fund is the centre of the party system, and thepartycaucuswhich could not exist without the party fund.
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It is not desirable that he should have obligations or be tied to interests or even to apartycaucus.
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They have not even had to make speeches from platforms, but have come in merely on an automatic recommendation of apartycaucus.
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It was all done through thepartycaucusand that is what is happening here today.
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Will not this be interference by thepartycaucusat the centre in what is happening in the constituencies?
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You trust them to select a candidate placed before them by thepartycaucus.
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It also gives far too much power to thepartycaucus.
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He is not altogether at the mercy of the frowns of thepartycaucus.
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At thepartycaucusmeeting these differences could not be settled, and it was then resolved to have a general election.
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Is it not a fact that candidates are put forward by thepartycaucusfor universities exactly the same as in other constituencies?
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If so, we are giving great power to thepartycaucus.
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They will be appointed, presumably bypartycaucusmeetings.
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The members are chosen by apartycaucus, they issue party election addresses, they are chosen for party reasons.
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