If elected he would not take any party whip in parliament and would have a "free hand", he pledged.
Many non-Shias admire the party and take pride in the courage and skill of its fighters.
Coal and Mines Minister Uma Bharti has also left the cabinet to take up a party post in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
Yet the hijinks of "Discovering Columbus" come at the expense of the Columbus Circle monument itself, which must be kidnapped to take part in the party.
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Being in government obliged his party, albeit briefly, to take part in the business of political compromise, itself a moderating experience.
This is due to a rule that states if a club in Germany receives major financial backing from one party for over 20 years, that party can then take a controlling stake in the club.
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And that, in some ways, fails that other test, too, in terms of your willingness to take on the sacred cows in your own party.
If either side is coerced by a third party, then market distortions arise, and suboptimal transactions take place which may not be in either party's interest.
That set the stage for Mr. Najib to take over the party leadership and premiership in 2009.
The 72-year-old Reverend Ian Paisley, the leader of the one big political party to refuse to take part in peace talks, continues to hold many would-be moderates in check.
But to make this seem genuine he needs also to take a leaf out of Mr Blair's book and actually take on those elements in his party that most revolt the electorate.
And his party is expected to take heavy losses in local elections on the same day.
The move attracted cross-party support and will also take place in England and Wales from 1 October.
It used to be the role of central bankers to take away the punchbowl when the party was in full swing.
Why is Dafydd Elis Thomas defying the party whip and refusing to take part in the vote of no confidence later this afternoon?
But neither party is expected to take up reforms in the banking and insurance sectors, a long-standing demand of foreign investors, in the midst of the current international financial crisis.
"This trilateral meeting reaffirmed the steps that North Korea should take in order for six-party talks to produce results, " Mrs Clinton said at a joint news conference after the Washington talks.
Many doctors in attendance interpreted it as a signal that Obama was willing to take on elements of his own party who had blocked such reforms in the past.
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They take him to a party where everyone is dressed in evening clothes from the nineteen-twenties.
But one measure, certainly, is your willingness to take on the sacred cows in your own party.
But his position is the one that I've been expressing here that the process in the other party will take care of itself.
This he ascribes to his willingness to take risks with the unionists in his own party by entering into an open-ended peace process.
Also, much like with other derivatives, the exiting party could simply just take an offsetting position in another swap to zero out the position.
Even his po-tential trump card, winning Kelantan back from Pas (which he failed to do in Novem-ber), is irrelevant since the next general election does not have to take place until after the next UMNO party polls in 2003.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband told Adam Boulton on Sky there were only a few "rites of passage" needed before the Lisbon Treaty came into force and accused Mr Cameron of "dithering" because he did not "want to take on the euro extremists" in his party.
If you take the Christian parties in the world, you know, take the Germany's Christian Democratic Party and try to think for a second that it has anything to do with a party like the Brotherhood, it's outrageous, in fact.
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Mr Obama's failure to take on the spend-alls in his own party will cost him politically.
Ms Royal is keen to take over the party leadership and mould a renewed party in her image.
The decision of Dorries to take part in the show, the first serving MP to do so, caused controversy in her party.
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