Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed.

他们整治政治和搞垮党派组织权力的企图失败了。

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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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The Labor party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition's spending plans if it returns to power.

工党最近宣布，如果它重新掌权，将保留联合政府的大部分开支计划。

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"When I came to power." Harrison said, "I found that my party's leaders had taken all the power for themselves.

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But the new Presbyterian Party soon developed its own methods of employing state power to control and regulate the church.

但新的长老派很快就发展了自己的办法,那就是利用政府权力控制和管理教会。

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She said members of the Democratic Party believe that the people are the basis of all governmental power.

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There is, however, a gulf between selection - by party power brokers - and election - by the people - although the bookmakers are tipping a Gillard victory.

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He wants you to see them not as a party of nice, worthy, unthreatening people who "want to stop the world and get off" but as a party that looks and sounds like a party of power - a party that matters enough to make people angry.

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Jim Murphy, a Scottish Labour MP and the shadow defence secretary, wants the central party to devolve more power to the Scottish party, just as executive power was transferred when Tony Blair's government set up the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

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