Examples of party loyalist in a Sentence
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Ruling party loyalists moved the December 2018 presidential election to May and blocked opposition parties from the ballot.
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Dallas Morning News, 3 Jan. 2026
Maduro has maintained a firm grip on the state, relying on the military and party loyalists to bolster his authority.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
In the Reuters interview, Hasina warned of growing anger among supporters of the Awami League and said that millions of party loyalists would boycott the parliamentary elections in February.
—Reuters, NBC news, 17 Nov. 2025
An unchallenged long run in Congress causes some incumbents to stop spending much time with the party loyalists at home, finding the endless social swirl of Washington more entertaining.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2025
Her expertise as the Senate’s interpreter of arcane chamber rules cannot be easily replaced with a party loyalist, and her day-to-day duties are nonpartisan in nature, even if she was appointed in 2012 by then-Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
Those troubles have badly dented Mr. Orban’s popularity ahead of an election next year that, according to some opinion polls, his governing Fidesz party could lose to an upstart opposition movement led by Peter Magyar, a former party loyalist.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
That has included packing the Constitutional Court with party loyalists and unleashing a permanent war against the independence of the judiciary.
—BÁlint Madlovics, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
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Dallas Morning News, 3 Jan. 2026
Maduro has maintained a firm grip on the state, relying on the military and party loyalists to bolster his authority.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
In the Reuters interview, Hasina warned of growing anger among supporters of the Awami League and said that millions of party loyalists would boycott the parliamentary elections in February.
—Reuters, NBC news, 17 Nov. 2025
An unchallenged long run in Congress causes some incumbents to stop spending much time with the party loyalists at home, finding the endless social swirl of Washington more entertaining.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2025
Her expertise as the Senate’s interpreter of arcane chamber rules cannot be easily replaced with a party loyalist, and her day-to-day duties are nonpartisan in nature, even if she was appointed in 2012 by then-Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
Those troubles have badly dented Mr. Orban’s popularity ahead of an election next year that, according to some opinion polls, his governing Fidesz party could lose to an upstart opposition movement led by Peter Magyar, a former party loyalist.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
That has included packing the Constitutional Court with party loyalists and unleashing a permanent war against the independence of the judiciary.
—BÁlint Madlovics, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Party loyalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/party%20loyalist. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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