rozhodující hlas

Just prior to the 1985 Helsinki conference, the DoE was once again making some progress and, at the final meeting, it was the Foreign Office which enjoyed the casting vote. (BNCI)

In 1934 it was still a struggle --; a fridge was bought on hire purchase over two years --; and the Professional missed being `;laid off'; only by the Chairman's casting vote, on the proposal `;that the present position of the Club was such he should move on';. (BNCI)

There was heated debate, but by the casting vote of the chairman we got our grant. (BNCI)

přeskupit, rozdělit funkce ve vládě

Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf, it is being speculated in Islamabad circles, may reshuffle his cabinet after becoming President, revealed sources on Wednesday. (Google)

But he is also expected to face difficulties in pushing forward his structural reforms in the long run and reshuffle cabinet in short term. (Google)

It wouldn't be useful to reshuffle cabinet, unless the president wanted to strike out in some new direction. (Google)

předvolební kampaň

If the free marketeers really have won the argument in the past 13 years, then the Tory rhetoricians in this election campaign certainly chose an odd way to celebrate the victory. (BNCI)

ANY suggestion that the population is bored stiff with the general election campaign was firmly refuted on Wednesday evening, by the amount of interest shown in the meeting of all four Winchester constituency candidates on the same platform in Alton. (BNCI)

With a parliamentary election campaign now in full swing, the failure of the Cunningham party to demonstrate sufficient political interest to keep their friends in their places was immensely damaging. (BNCI)

volební den

The present concern for sport as polling day approaches is typical of how politicians are adept at using the subject for short-term gain while ignoring its long-term problems. (BNCI)

Mr Kinnock said the choice on polling day was between a Tory Party that, after 13 years in power, had proved beyond doubt it had no ambition to make Britain better and no conscience to make Britain worse, or a Labour Party with active policies to pull the country out of recession and build a lasting recovery. (BNCI)

By the time the campaign started, and never more strongly than on polling day, I was convinced that the Tories would lose --; that Labour would be the biggest party in a hung Parliament. (BNCI)

prosazovat nezávislost

The most dramatic symbol of the revolutionary determination to assert  independence of both the East and the West was the hostage crisis between Iran and the United States. (WebCorp)

Unlike the French, who pulled out of NATO's military command in 1966 to assert independence, the Germans hold top positions in NATO and will use their transatlantic experience and contacts to shape Europe's emerging security and defense policy without needlessly or gratuitously alienating Americans.(WebCorp)

That sets up a conflict and a natural desire for a young man or woman to assert
independence. Sometimes this process leads to unwise behavior.(WebCorp)

prezidentské volby

The Republican Party saw this as an issue which could be used against the Democrats in the approaching presidential election of 1920. (WebCorp)

The presidential election that November would enable the people of the USA to pass a harsh verdict on the increasingly unpopular Hoover government. (BNCI)

Truman appeared to be in deep political trouble as the presidential election of 1948 approached. (BNCI)

stínová vláda

He called the shadow cabinet together rarely and restricted its membership, but this did not remove the obligation to take advice. (BNCI)

The leading Opposition party organizes a `;shadow cabinet'; to provide for a considered and specialized response to the activities of the government. (BNCI)

The Parliamentary Labour Party has agreed to enhance the chances of women getting onto the Shadow Cabinet in the next elections in November. (BNCI)

prohlásit nezávislost

As soon as Gorbachev was reinstated as President on Aug. 21, he was compelled by the increase in Yeltsin's political standing and the fact that most state bodies were at least partially compromised in the coup attempt to acknowledge the need for a new state structure; the majority of the republics proclaimed independence from the Soviet Union, and fundamental reforms began of the government and the State Security Committee (KGB).(BNCI)

 Yet, not a single Indonesian today accepts that date, arguing that the country proclaimed independence August 17, 1945.(Google)

Guatemala proclaimed independence from Spain for all of Central America on September 15, 1821. Costa Rica learned the news a month later. The first constitution, the Pacto de Concordia, was soon adopted. (Google)

úplná nezávislost

They are determined to carry on their resistance until they have won genuine independence and freedom and true peace.(WebCorp)

The major Western Powers continued to advocate negotiations with the South African regime - despite its constant defiance of United Nations resolutions and opinions of the International Court of Justice - knowing well that no solution ending racial discrimination in Namibia or granting genuine independence to the country could result from such negotiations.(WebCorp)

But there are short-sighted and sinister plots to plunge the whole region in Cold War and prevent genuine independence of Namibia.(WebCorp)

vměšovat se do politiky

The trade union bureaucracy, tied to the political lobbies of the bourgeoisie, to their relationships with functionaries in the ministries, to the perks they receive from the bourgeois state, will strongly oppose this solution, arguing cynically that "the trade unions should not meddle into politics".(WebCorp)

Neverthless, the life of the Belarusians under the Polish rule was relatively much better than in the Soviet Union. If one did not meddle into politics then he/she was not persecuted. (WebCorp)

The very fact that goes against the grain of the Constitution, which does not permit the members of the Armed Forces to meddle into politics as provided in their oath of office as provided at the end of the Third Schedule of the Constitution Quaid-i-Azam also wanted the Armed Forces to be non political.(WebCorp)

volební urna

An election that had been fought by the Conservatives on the issue of," Who runs the country --; government or trade unions?", was won by a party that was seen by many as in the pay of the unions and there was the spectre of socialism via the ballot box. (BNCI)

The essential point, if there is to be proper democratic accountability, is that there must be a clearly defined authority whose judgement and power cannot ultimately be contradicted other than by the citizens themselves through the ballot box. (BNCI)

Not only have the people never voted for the Prime Minister at the ballot box: they have consistently and persistently voted against him at the ballot box. (BNCI)

pouze formální nezávislost

Relations with the Philippines are known by the joint war against the Spanish colonial power that granted nominal independence in 1898, followed by the joint campaign against the Japanese occupation of the 1940s. (WebCorp)

The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), our current adversary in the armed conflict, continues to suppress the sovereign will of the Filipino people in order to perpetuate the interests of the foreign and domestic oppressors and exploiters, despite the US grant of nominal independence to the Philippines on July 4, 1946. (WebCorp)

Gumbel makes no mention of the conditions imposed by the US for returning Aristide to power as president in the first democratic election Haiti had ever had during its two hundred years of nominal independence.(WebCorp)

hlasovací lístek

This means the voter marks his second preference on the ballot paper; and, if his first choice candidate does not finish in the first two, his vote is transferred to one of those who is still in with a chance. (BNCI)

It is well established that there are voters whose preferences are influenced by the alphabetical sequence in which candidates' surnames appear on the ballot paper. (BNCI)

Overall, little more than half of them were serious candidates put up by Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Labour and the Progressive Democrats, and on the ballot paper they were not listed for convenience of identification in party groups; the other candidates were outsiders. (BNCI)

stranické vysílání

If there are only three or four parties, prepare for a TV panel debate, where the party leaders will be invited to participate; otherwise, ask each party to prepare a party political broadcast (2-minute length) to be recorded in the studio. (WebCorp)

Second, groups with extreme political opinions may present candidates who have no hope of winning, but who ensure that their party has the entitlement to a free party politicl broadcast that is given in Britain to any party with at least fifty candidates. (WebCorp)

He explained that the BBC was not required to broadcast party political broadcasts or election broadcasts by statute but "because time on television is offered to political parties by the BBC for them to explain their policies and politics as they see fit." (WebCorp)

vstoupit do politiky

John Morton was reared on a farm, yet with the help of his stepfather, he became a surveyor before he entered into politics. (Google)

It was only at the age of forty, however, that he entered into politics as a member of the city's board of alderman. (Google)

She herself "entered into politics not because of feminism, but because my husband was in politics and encouraged me to join. I wanted to be useful to people." (Google)