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| | Encyclopedia: Conservative Party (UK) |
 | | The formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party, and an echo of the party's defence (1886-1921) of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty in Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations. | | | Conservative modernisers point to Afriyie's election as evidence that the party is changing, though opponents argue that the election of a single black MP in what is essentially a safe seat doesn't count for much against the anti-immigration campaign fought by the Conservatives in 2005. | | | See Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2005 Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. |
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| | ipedia.com: Moderata samlingspartiet Article |
| | The Moderate Coalition Party or Moderata samlingspartiet (commonly referred to as Moderaterna) is a liberal-conservative is a political party in Sweden. | | | This resulted in a successive upswing in the elections and Gösta Bohman became Minister of Economy in 1976. | | | Roughly a decade later in 1991, a Moderate led government under Carl Bildt as Prime Minister had made its way to power. |
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| | Euro Know - Letters |
| | Nations are best run democratically and sovereignty lies with the people and power is delegated to their democratically elected representatives in parliament. | | | If qualified majority voting is the transfer of powers normally held by an elected government or an elected parliament, to an unelected European Commission, then it cannot be democratic. | | | I understand that Mr Blair has denied his reported attendance. |
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| | The emigration of European peoples (from colonialism, Western) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | the judicial branch of the European Union (EU). | | | The EPP was formed in 1953 as the Christian Democrat Group, which acted as a transnational political party in the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). | | | The ECJ originated in the individual courts of justice established in the 1950s for the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community. |
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| | The American Peoples Encyclopedia 1964 +246teaape64+ |
| | See Boston Tea Party; Nonimportation; Revolution, American; Townshend Acts. | | | The beverage soon became an important article of trade between the colonies and Europe, and England's attempt to monopolize the tea trade with the colonies was a factor contributing to the American Revolution. | | | Tea produced in this manner is known as black tea. |
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| | Maritime Heritage Network - Stories |
| | The "Boldt Decision" allocated 50 percent of the annual catch to treaty tribes, which enrages other fishermen. | | | The sprawling facility, located next to the city of Bremerton on Sinclair Inlet, was established in 1891, and it continues to serve the US Navy today. | | | This project has been funded in part by a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Eldridge Campbell Stockton Memorial Preservation Services Fund. |
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| | European Peoples Party - definition of European Peoples Party in Encyclopedia |
| | The EPP has a youth political party called the Youth of the European People's Party or YEPP. | | | The European Democratic Students or EDS is a group of student political parties associated with the EPP. | | | The European People's Party is a Christian democrat-conservative political party at European level founded in 1976. |
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| | A lot of people ask us how we got the name Trojan Horse Antiques |
| | The ensuing war lasted 10 years, finally ending when the Greeks pretended to withdraw (deserting the war defeated) and sailed to the nearby island of Tenedos to hide. | | | It also figures in the literature of the Romans (e.g., Virgil's Aeneid) and of later European peoples down to the 20th century. | | | People often ask us how we got the name Trojan Horse Antiques. |
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| | A surprising number of third parties survived the post-election shakeout. | | | The following list was culled from the Politics 1 website, which features brief and sometimes amusing descriptions of the parties below. | | | They are parties that cannot or will not field candidates for office, for either financial or mental health reasons |
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