He was determined to see the party keep a hold on the reins of power.

他决心要确保该党继续执掌政权。

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Far too many party hacks from the old days still hold influential jobs.

太多的老一辈党仆仍然占据着有影响力的职位。

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It is a routine to hold a party every year.

每年举行一次聚会是例行公事。

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You cannot hold a party like the Progressive Party together.

VOA: special.2010.09.16

There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.

美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The combination of energized Republicans and Tea Party activists, plus disappointed independent voters spells big political trouble for Democrats trying to hold control of Congress in the November elections.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Moreover, now that the ban on changing parties is in force, the dinosaurs can no longer hold party leaders to ransom by threatening defection.

ECONOMIST: Pleasing the voters

The Hindu enclave was a canny choice by her faction of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI by its Indonesian initials) to hold its party congress.

CNN: A REAWAKENING OF POLITICS

Trial lawyers have replaced trade unionists as the party's main paymasters, but they are too few in number (and too busy) to hold the party together in the same way.

ECONOMIST: Lexington