Some articles on parties:
... They often form 'screaming parties' during summer evenings where about 10-20 Swifts will gather and fly around their nesting area, all calling out to each other, and being answered by other Swifts within the ... Larger "screaming parties" are formed at higher altitudes, especially late in the breeding season ... The purpose of these is not known, but it appears to be the case that these parties, or many Swifts in them, will then ascend to sleep on the wing, while still breeding adults ...
... opposition through the Law On Political Parties ... This law ensured the right to meetings, publications, and elections of opposition parties, but only to those who had registered with the Ministry of Justice ... for government blockage of unapproved parties ...
... any European or international organisations, the party has ties with several European political parties and groupings ... in government in 2000, Haider sought to establish his own alliance of right-wing parties ... and the Lega Nord party in Italy, as well as some other parties and party groupings ...
... The Union is an umbrella organization that currently contains seven Parties the Liberal Party (Lib), the Party of the Left (PoL), the Independent Party (IP), the Federalist Party (Fed), the Conservative Party ... These parties are actually independent debating societies that host their own debates and activities apart from Union activities, though members will come together ... The Parties are traditionally listed in the order above ...
... Since around 1970, the significant national Belgian political parties have split into distinct representations for each communities' interests besides defense of their ... These parties belong to three main political families, though close to the centre the right-wing Liberals, the social conservative Christian Democrats, and Socialists forming the left-wing ... Other important newer parties are the Green parties and, nowadays mainly in Flanders, the nationalist and far-right parties ...
Famous quotes containing the word parties:
“Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
“Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a “taxing- machine;” to the contented, a “machine for securing property.” Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)