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a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
they won the election even though they offered no positive program
their candidate simply ignored the party platform
How To Use political platform In A Sentence
- Perhaps most importantly, city halls provide the opposition with a significant political platform before national elections later this year.
- The letters page commentaries are merely one means to ensure an even-handed debate and a helpful facility for those without an immediate political platform.
- Pakistani terrorists regularly defect to another terrorist group with a totally different political platform.
- A vote for me will not be wasted, but will be a vote for a socialist political platform.
- Instead, as with Nelson Mandela, forgiveness and reconciliation became the main planks in Kim's political platform and guided the steps he took. The Nobel Peace Prize 2000 - Presentation Speech
- While connoting a contempt for personal attacks, the term also reflects a reality: the political platforms of candidates are no longer the main focus of the electorate and the media.
- The technology answers the needs of ever-changing political platforms and campaigns.
- In reality, the Brotherhood's leadership made a very calculated decision that it preferred creating a new political front organization with a more vaguely modernistic sounding political platform and more appealing set of political slogans, rather than toss overboard its founding principles set forth in the Brotherhood's ultra-conservative Islamist 1928 founding charter and constitution. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Muslim Brotherhood's New Facelift
- Election headquarters should be studying them closely, and taking note, so that the political platform of a candidate can be flexible to fit in with trends.
- It is easier to fill our political platforms with a rainbow of complexions, to join enthusiastically once a year on Martin Luther King's birthday to utter platitudes about equality. Race, Class, and Reconciliaton