Allowing voters to select specific candidates in this way may actually strengthen the hand of party leaders.
As a sop, Kim offered to merge the two parties into one and hand the party leadership over to Kim Jong Pil.
Since many such posts are held by the DPP, it was a way of extending a hand to party members so long as they are not part of the central administration in Taipei.
For example, it made life hard for Mr Moroz by stalling for a month over whether it would hand his party the forms it needed to get the minimum 1m voters' signatures entitling him to run.
On the other hand, her party was proposing a genuine "green new deal" to put environmental industries at the heart of the economic recovery.
His move followed lengthy talks with Mr Moon, amid concern that splitting the opposition vote between two candidates would hand the ruling party a win.
Although he was one of New Labour's architects, as chancellor Mr Brown cultivated a reputation as less New and more straightforwardly Labour than Mr Blair, perhaps because this stance strengthened his hand in internal party politics.
But he cut his political teeth in the PRI, which he left reluctantly in 1988 when free-market technocrats gained the upper hand in the party which ruled Mexico for seven decades until Vicente Fox's election victory of 2000.
He has long said he will step down only when he can hand over a united party to his successor.
On the one hand since the 1992 party congress no officer has been picked for the all-important standing committee of the Politburo.
If he goes, he may intend to hand over to the party's secretary-general, Yukio Hatoyama, and then wield power from behind the throne.
Yet if she is serious about taking the party in hand, she cannot continue to remain aloof from the task of choosing a new team and new policies.
Barring a miraculous Democratic wave up and down the ballot this November, the axis of power is unlikely to shift enough to hand Obama's party control of a majority of state delegations.
On the one hand, the ruling party and the government in China (more or less the two sides of the same coin) cannot afford to be complacent because China does not have a perfect political system -- which country in the world can claim to have one?
The case began last week when a package addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived at his majority Conservative Party headquarters, and a hand was later found at a post office addressed to the minority Liberal Party, authorities said.
On the one hand we have the Labour Party, or as you would say, socialist.
Voters rejected the Republican Party out of hand and gave the Senate and the House of Representatives to the Democrats.
Neither may have any great plans to defy the party line in hand at the moment, but both would find it difficult to combine membership of this new body with any new defiance of the whips.
With preparations in hand to turn the forthcoming party congress into a curtain-raiser for the new Jiang-Li era, nothing would give the Chinese leaders greater satisfaction than a full and abject official apology from Mr Hashimoto for Japan's militaristic past.
Critics may see it as another sign of party elders steering the hand of new leaders.
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Officials later intercepted a package addressed to the Liberal Party that contained a hand.
Low-key contingency preparations were set in hand to break away from the party with those involved hoping for backing from big business.
His biggest enemies, on the other hand, lie within his own party.
Many of the Shin Megami Tensei gameplay elements are at hand here, including managing your party versus your creatures, and the story struggles with concepts of technology, commercialization and the occult.
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However many Christians there may be, the atheistic Party is playing a losing hand.
Yet in every game of chicken, there is one party that has the upper hand.
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The stridently anti-Berlusconi Italy of Principles party, on the other hand, doubled its share, to 8%.
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