opposition party
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoppositionandparty
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opposition
noun
uk/ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/us/ˌɑː.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
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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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(Definition ofoppositionandpartyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In part, this process will represent intra-municipal gains, as theoppositionpartyin a municipality slowly builds on its own past success.
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They do not explain why voters who wish to punish incumbent parties should vote for extreme right parties over any otheroppositionparty.
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He is also in charge of parliamentary affairs and relations with theoppositionparty.
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In addition, they freed prisoners from theoppositionparty, and in the process 6,500 others managed to escape.
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The rotation of political power to anoppositionpartymore than three years ago has not ended the streaks of political corruption.
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Rebels can choose which party to form a coalition with, either a ruling oroppositionparty, and can take office in either case.
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In this case in which neither a ruling noroppositionpartycan gain a majority, rebels can occupy dominant positions.
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If rebels campaigned with ruling party endorsement, democratic principles forbid them from forming a coalition with anoppositionparty.
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However, the condition for reaching this result is that neither a ruling noroppositionpartywins a majority.
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Theoppositionpartymembers of the committee were serious on the issue but failed to deal with the irregularity.
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The fundamental dynamics of the political system revolved around the regime andoppositionpartyleaders.
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We do not, for example, see the emergence of anything like anoppositionpartyor actual demands for reform.
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The last column shows the distance of the net policy-maker position from the citizens, using the opposition influence estimate to weight theoppositionpartyposition.
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That helps to explain, of course, why senators might have been willing to allowoppositionpartysenators to fill out blue slips.
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A second way in which anoppositionpartymay avoid being rolled is by exercising institutional veto or delay powers with which it is endowed.
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When anoppositionpartylies inside the government interval, we take its distance from the government to be zero.
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Had theoppositionpartydominated congress, the power of the national executive might have been checked.
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They also demanded the release from jail of elevenoppositionpartymembers.
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