And Richardson is characteristically amazing: she brings a touch of humanity to this rather formal party.
However, Rodenberg says it is important remember that the state of New Jersey is not a formal party to this lawsuit.
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The parties have been allocated 80 of the 200 seats in the new congress, whereas the remaining 120 will go to individuals without formal party affiliations.
President Giorgio Napolitano will begin formal consultations with party leaders next week to explore coalition options.
However the debate - used by unions and local parties to make a point - has no formal role in party policy.
One example is in Greece, where Syriza has transformed itself from a loose alliance of left-wing groups into the formal main anti-austerity party.
Traditionally, a formal, summer garden-party dress did two things: it looked light and uplifting, while keeping all the bits one might generally expose to the sun covered.
So civil servants have been dusting off their manuals on what to do in case of a hung parliament, and the Lib Dems elaborately refuse to set out the terms on which they would co-operate with either main party in a formal coalition or an informal alliance.
These days, it is also perfectly acceptable to wear garden-party dresses to more formal affairs.
Mr Koizumi's real enemies remain the conservatives within his own party, not the formal opposition.
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Lagan Valley assembly member Basil McCrea has received a formal warning from the Ulster Unionist Party's disciplinary panel.
Lagan Valley assembly member Basil McCrea has said he is taking time to consider his response to a formal warning from the Ulster Unionist Party's disciplinary panel.
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Even if he were to enter into a formal coalition with the leftish New Democratic Party (NDP), which won 19 seats, he would still be one seat short of the majority he needs.
Neither party on the right has a formal procedure for deciding who should lead it into battle.
But Bhutto's party said it was still waiting for formal notification about the law, but welcomed the power-sharing negotiations, the Associated Press reported.
That may weigh heavily when Mr Trimble faces the first formal test of internal support from his Ulster Unionist Party, when he seeks endorsement for what he has done from his 860-member party council, probably on November 27th.
Little business is done there except the formal ratification of the candidates and votes on planks in party platforms.
Labour parliamentary business manager Paul Martin said he may have breached rules relating to separation of ministerial and constituency roles, the use of public resources for party political purposes and a duty to record formal meetings.
The Republican race was honed further Monday with the formal withdrawal of Mr. Huntsman, who called on the party to unite around Mr. Romney.
As well as attending the Treasury event and reading their evidence, I have also scrutinised carefully the paper published by the Scottish government as its formal response to the earlier report by the Fiscal Commission Working Party, set up by Scottish ministers.
Behind the gloss you see on TV--the rousing keynote speeches, a candidate's formal acceptance of the nomination, the unwavering celebration of a particular party--the conventions are schmoozefests for business and lobbying interests.
At Cana, her son is like a stranger, "oddly formal and grand, " who seems to perform a wine-based party trick in front of drunks.
Opening the discussion on "The way forward after conference", chair Ann Black - who takes up her seat on Labour's national executive committee on the formal close of conference - ran through some of the challenges facing the party's left.
Quasi-formal campaigning has become much longer and more intense since the 1970s, when party reforms made primaries the sole mechanism through which presidential candidates were selected.
EMU-philes concede that a formal split is a long way off, and in public all chant the mantra of party unity.
But that is what Patricia de Lille of South Africa's Independent Democrats (ID) received at a recent meeting of the Democratic Alliance (DA), the country's main opposition party, when she indicated that the two parties were close to clinching a formal agreement to co-operate at next year's municipal elections.
He said a fitting end to New Labour's revolution would be a formal union of Liberalism and Labourism, but that Labour would need the generosity to reach out to a smaller party from a position of great strength.
The UDA's formal rejection of the Agreement in a statement last summer was followed by the dissolving of the UDP as a political party.
Councillor June Tandy, Labour group leader, said she could "categorically rule out any formal coalition" between Labour and any other group but said it was "obvious" there would be inter-party talks.
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