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No party congresses were held at all between 1939 and 1952.

Leadership changes and major policy are decided at party congresses, the last of which was held in 1982.

Over the years this was the main place for mass state events (particularly party congresses).

I read the stenographic accounts of all the party congresses.

Members of the committee were elected at the Party Congresses.

I proposed that editorial boards be elected at party congresses.

The Central Committee was expanded to 183 members, with party congresses every five years.

There is also a Central Committee which meets between party congresses.

He also attended the Menshevik's' party congresses in 1906 and 1907.

Large Party Congresses were held on an occasional basis.

He/She is elected by party delegates in biennial party congresses.

On one of the party congresses a motion was put forth to abolish the party.

After approval by the Council of Ministers, major trade programs were announced at national party congresses.

The party held party congresses every two years.

Normally party programs and top personnel changes are approved during party congresses convened every five years.

He also participated in the party congresses and helped develop party program in health care.

"So in that sense Communist Party congresses no longer have the significance that they used to."

In between party congresses, the Central Committee is the supreme organ on party affairs.

The oversight body of the Party in between Party Congresses.

At Labor Party congresses, he used to greet people with, "Hi, kid."

The last three party congresses have all continued to label democracy as too "Western" and therefore unsuited to China.

Delegates at the Party Congresses elected the members of the Central Committee.

The General Council has 152 members, is the foremost party platform in between party congresses and issues statements on important social or political questions.

Preparations for the Congress began with party congresses at the grass-root and provincial-levels, during which delegates were elected.

Party congresses adopted these policies at meetings in January 1979, May 1981, and October 1985.

At last week's party conference, the new leader got to work.

The results are to be announced at the party conference.

It held its first party conference on 1-2 June the same year.

Following the 1929 election, a general party conference was held in March 1930.

We at this party conference would like to hear his explanation.

What were the best speeches of the party conference season?

"Let me make just one promise," he said at his party conference.

We wish she had included the party conferences question as well.

At party conference, the leadership appeared to side with the second camp.

Some people said he was going to postpone it until after our party conference.

Her appointment is expected to be approved at a party conference next month.

The left used to have two ways to amplify its voice at the party conference.

One of them will crowned at the party conference on Saturday.

But often it takes a full 24 hours, or more, before people really assess the value of a party conference speech.

"That will be my counsel at the next party conference in Beijing."

What we really want to know is: what's everyone wearing at the Labour party conference?

After 1981 the leader is elected by an electoral college at a party conference.

The campaign will redouble its efforts during the party conference season.

He's very interested, you know, when they have these party conferences - he'll sit and watch that.

And the approval of the party conference last week seemed to give him the necessary mandate to start down that road.

The result will be announced at the party conference in Manchester this afternoon.

Go to a Conservative party conference and see who their core constituency is.

Sure, he'll cut interest rates before the party conference.

Andrew had never addressed the 3,000 delegates at a party conference.

In November 2006, the 6th party conference was held.

At times, the meeting today had the feel of a political convention.

And a political convention has become, at heart, little more than a reality show.

The city has not been the host of a national political convention in 50 years.

He also covered the first of many national political conventions in 1980.

She is noted as being the first woman on the floor of a political convention.

All told, the police say they arrested 1,821 people, the most at any political convention.

The site was host to national political conventions in 1900, 1936, 1940 and 1948.

One television station here is losing interest in political conventions.

First vice president to be nominated by a major party at a political convention.

"This is the first time we'll be going up against an Olympics and coming out of a summer with political conventions," he said.

He was chosen as a floor reporter for the 1952, 1956 and 1960 political conventions.

The timing of the two political conventions will make party money crucial.

Bill also covered the national political conventions and events in the Capitol.

"There is no event in American politics more partisan than a national political convention."

It will keep its original setting at a 1960 political convention in Philadelphia.

This kind of talk works well at political conventions, but it makes for dull stories.

But all that is too complicated for a sound bite at a political convention.

But one political convention has already come and gone.

"We've never had a political convention in Boston," she said.

It is now 40 years since networks began live television coverage of political conventions.

There seem so many more suitable spots for a political convention.

However, many journalists still believe that the public should be exposed to political conventions.

What would he have made of our political conventions?

For a moment it felt like a political convention.

The cultural story continues beyond these political conventions, but you'll have to save that trip for another time.