How to Use multiparty in a Sentence
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He is renowned as a fighter and was detained for years in the 1980s over his push for multiparty democracy.
— Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022 -
The multiparty coalition has controlled the House since 2017.
— Isabelle Ross, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023 -
Only in 1994 did the I.R.A. agree to a ceasefire, in conjunction with multiparty peace talks.
— Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023 -
The guerilla movement won elections in 1980 and has ruled the country ever since, with a strong distrust of the West and multiparty politics.
— Farai Mutsaka, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022 -
His legacy of a one-party state ended six years later, when the first multiparty elections were held.
— Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022 -
That is the case for multiparty accounts, revocable trusts and wills.
— Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021 -
Every election held in Gabon since the country’s return to a multiparty system in 1990 has ended in violence, and there were fears this one would as well.
— Yves Laurent Goma and Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023 -
Like many countries in Africa and elsewhere, Zambia saw a flowering of freedom in the 1990s with the advent of multiparty democracy.
— Hakainde Hichilema, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 -
The audience filed in: a few dozen of the candidates’ personal guests, plus a handful of diehard fans of multiparty democracy.
— Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 -
The election is the fourth in the East African nation since multiparty politics was restored in 2005 — but by then Mr. Museveni had already been in power for nearly two decades.
— New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021 -
Tsai’s films instead take place after 1987, when Chiang’s son, Ching-kuo, ceded one-party rule to the current multiparty democracy.
— Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2021 -
Their goal, however, was not to attempt multiparty democracy, as some hope for today.
— Bernard Tamas, The Conversation, 22 June 2021 -
Many countries in the Middle East have collapsed in recent decades into multiparty civil wars fueled by region-wide contests.
— Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023 -
Researchers who study elections have found, over and over again, that government tends to work better in multiparty proportional systems.
— Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021 -
In her first public address, outside the Shwedagon Pagoda, calls for a multiparty democratic government.
— Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021 -
Hogan has called on Democratic lawmakers to set aside their proposals in favor of maps drawn by a multiparty commission Hogan created.
— Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022 -
The Arab Spring was still flickering in Tunisia, but multiparty politics wasn’t creating solutions.
— Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2022 -
The Working Families Party believes that moving closer to a multiparty democracy helps solve this puzzle.
— Zack Mezera, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022 -
Italy is in multiparty disarray, and Brazil is convulsed by Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-vaccine antics and his dismantling of laws that keep agribusiness companies from destroying the Amazon rain forest.
— Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021 -
Scholz and others were keen to dispel concerns that lengthy haggling and a new, multiparty government would mean unstable leadership in Europe's biggest economy.
— Geir Moulson, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021 -
Scholz and others were keen to dispel concerns that lengthy haggling and a new, multiparty government would mean unstable leadership in Europe’s biggest economy.
— Geir Moulson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2021 -
Abhishek Chinnappa / Getty Images India has a multiparty parliamentary system in which the candidate who receives the most votes in their home constituency wins.
— Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2024 -
Yet a multiparty coalition signals a new era in German politics, whereby the political landscape has fragmented, and more small parties will be consistently vying for votes.
— Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2021 -
Chama cha Mapinduzi, having won all previous elections, has governed within a multiparty dispensation for 25 years.
— David E Kiwuwa, Quartz Africa, 4 Nov. 2020 -
While mainland China has one-party rule and no national elections, Hong Kong technically still has a multiparty legislature.
— BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021 -
India’s communist parties have worked within the country’s multiparty democratic structures since its independence in 1947 and have thus also remained relevant in the post-Soviet era.
— Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024 -
Kou added that at stake for Xi is proving China’s authoritarian model can outperform multiparty democracies in tackling social ills.
— Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021 -
That October, the Hungarian parliament passed legislation that allowed for the first multiparty elections.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021 -
Even in states in which the reintroduction of multiparty politics has been associated with political controversy and conflict, such as Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, and Uganda, more than three quarters of citizens say that democracy is preferable.
— Sishuwa Sishuwa, Quartz, 12 July 2021 -
The reasons, Russian analysts say, are to undermine Mr. Navalny, distract from his movement and divide the liberal opposition — all while providing a veneer of multiparty politics in a country where there is little meaningful electoral choice.
— New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
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