Sentences with phrase «weaker party in»

Once perceived as relevant only to the financially weaker party in «bet the company» litigation, there are now countless examples of major corporations with strong balance sheets recognizing the benefits of using non-recourse litigation finance, structured either around a single claim or a litigation portfolio.

London is often the preferred choice for the economically weaker party in a divorce because English courts recognise that there should be no discrimination between contributions made by a homemaker and a breadwinner.

As to the working class, it has always been the weakest party in the drama of bourgeois cultural imperialism.

Not exact matches

While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders are expected to duke it out in an intensifying battle for the party nomination, themes of the weak economy and the struggles of the middle class are likely to take center stage.

With the domestic economy too weak to maintain China's high growth rates, and with exports to the West hurting, the Communist Party in Beijing and its regional offshoots have come to rely heavily on cheap exports and debt - fuelled investment to sustain China's fragile fortunes.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currParty; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currparty elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Critics point out that the open system can be gamed, especially when an incumbent's backers flock to the other party's primary to support a weaker candidate, who then ends up as the other party's nominee against the incumbent in the general election.

A brokered convention would thus be rendered increasingly unlikely, and a party going into an election with an evidently weak presidential and vice-presidential team would be powerless to find replacements so late in the process.

This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognised also in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration inevery case.»

But now he looks weak — giving into the media pressure or perhaps the media advisors in his own party: «Make it go away Tim».

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

The result was that if the Athenians fell in with a party of the enemy that was weaker than they, it escaped them through knowing their watchword; while if they themselves failed to answer they were put to the sword.

For in 1938 Trotsky also claimed that the only thing stopping the global revolution was «the crisis of proletarian leadership»: namely the weak - kneed vacillators that led both social democratic and communist parties then and now.

Whilst it is true that most (but not all) Republican and Democratic primaries are open only to registered party supporters, the American party system is much weaker - with party affiliation only being a weak identifier for a much broader ideological spectrum, and you don't have to pay membership dues to vote - so in effect, the primaries are open for almost anyone to vote in.

So every party can poll its full support everywhere - including supporters of minor parties, and supporters of large parties (eg Tories in the north - east, Labour in south - west) where they are weakest.

The absorption of former Soviet allies by NATO and the EU gave the impression of a zero - sum game in which the stronger party was taking advantage of the weaker.

Moreover, elites in the weak parties do not mind the status quo.

In the view of Thatcherites, the new Thatcherite Britain would be founded not on the traditional sources of trade union and Labour Party power but on owner occupiers living in suburbs and new towns, in small, specialist new technology and electronics companies, in the service sector, with weaker and atrophied unionIn the view of Thatcherites, the new Thatcherite Britain would be founded not on the traditional sources of trade union and Labour Party power but on owner occupiers living in suburbs and new towns, in small, specialist new technology and electronics companies, in the service sector, with weaker and atrophied unionin suburbs and new towns, in small, specialist new technology and electronics companies, in the service sector, with weaker and atrophied unionin small, specialist new technology and electronics companies, in the service sector, with weaker and atrophied unionin the service sector, with weaker and atrophied unions.

In weak labour markets, it is difficult for center - left parties to appeal to both groups.

A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

Shawcroft's enforced pressing of an ejector seat button to allow her place on the party's national executive seat to be filled, possibly only temporarily, by Eddie Izzard, much to the delight of its weaker Right - wing competitors Progress and Labour First, was an embarrassing tactical retreat in the anti-Semitism controversy.

Incidentally you can check the figures in your new chum Peter Oborne's book the Rise of Political Lying in which he charts the addiction of New \ Labour to systematic misinformation and explains why it is they are so much worse than the Conservative s Party I think you will find you lame - ass weak sheeeet over in the cocked hat into which I have knocked it bitch (Just watched the wire....)

However, making every vote in every state count toward electing the president under direct election would stimulate state party - building efforts in the weaker party, especially in less competitive states, and encourage both parties to campaign actively.

Weak Oppositions rarely result in good governance by the majority party.

An influential work by Robert Putnam (1988) suggests that the UK will actually have a weaker hand in negotiations if the Conservative Party wins a greater majority.

Accordingly, party identification is a weaker bond in Vermont than in many other states.

The opposition parties claimed the appeal revealed Labour's unease at Brown's weak performances in the leadership debates.

The Democrats encouraged votes for Trump in the Primary as he was definitely the weakest candidate to go against their party front runners.

I think the party was weak in dealing with him.»

This is because of the difficulty in countering an alternative to the divisive rhetoric of populist challengers, leading to many mainstream parties adopting weaker forms of the same rhetoric.

11:56 - I wonder which of the following weak spots David Cameron will zero in on this week: Ed Miliband's contortions following the anti-Syria intervention vote, his shadow chancellor's decision to slowly U-turn on austerity, or the fact the GMB are pulling their most of their funding from the Labour party.

«Coming hot on the heels of news that Tories in Thirsk and Malton are trying to deselect one of the few senior women MPs in the party, recent events have shown that not only has David Cameron failed to deliver on a promise to change the Tories but he's too weak to do anything about it.»

Follow our live coverage of David Cameron trying to cheer Tory party spirits in prime minister's questions, as a weak winter sun shines down on Westminster.

@monguin: I would say the one risk to voting for the weaker candidate so your guy in the opposition party has an easier challenge is that you might accidentally put the idiot in office.

Other people will vote for Party A to vote in their primary for the weaker candidate as they want to give Party B's candidate the better shot.

That President Xi has accumulated so much personal power is partly a reflection of his political acumen, and partly a recognition by the Party that China needs a single strong leader at the moment as it transitions from a weak local power recovering from the disasters of Japanese occupation in the early 20th century followed the cultural revolution and the great leap forwards, and instead becomes a global power.

In western democracies, party profile tends to be much stronger and leaders weaker.

These «orphan states,» most notably behemoths with traditionally weak parties like California, Illinois and New York, are increasingly the focus of top GOP officials in the nation's capital this spring.

Hoffman's weak haul is one factor piquing Republican interest in Matt Doheny, a businessman who's raised more than $ 500,000 since announcing for the seat — he lost the nomination to Scozzafava and bowed out while Hoffman stayed in the race as a Conservative Party candidate.

[223] Dissatisfaction with Romney's administration and the weak condition of the Republican state party were among several factors contributing to Democrat Deval Patrick's 20 - point win over Republican Kerry Healey, Romney's lieutenant governor, in the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial election.

Despite the stronger rationale for looking at relative rather than absolute change in party support, the historical data show weaker correlations with the former than the latter.

«It's still the same old Labour party: a weak leader in the pocket of the union bosses who's unable to stand up for hardworking people.»

However, the continued failure to embrace Welsh devolution in anymore than its current format have made it very difficult for the Welsh Conservative Party to establish themselves in the eyes of voters who see a weak Welsh wing of an English pParty to establish themselves in the eyes of voters who see a weak Welsh wing of an English partyparty.

Abdullahi said that the challenge was weak political parties or those without grassroots base wanted to participate in every election, including presidential.

This is a remarkable result in what was always one of the weakest areas for the SNP, and it leaves Scotland with just one MP from each of the three main Westminster parties.

More chaos in the Tory Party, more weak & unstable govt.

In areas where the governing parties were weak, four - seat constituencies were used so that the governing parties had a strong chance of still winning two.

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

However, Manhattan's Democratic Party is relatively weak and the borough's Assembly delegation divided, and Mr. Wright appeared to be having difficulty garnering support in other sections of the city.

The report read: «The Labour party is too weak to win the next election — whether it takes place in 2017 or 2020.