How to Use multiparty in a Sentence

multiparty

adjective
  • His legacy of a one-party state ended six years later, when the first multiparty elections were held.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • That is the case for multiparty accounts, revocable trusts and wills.
    Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Their goal, however, was not to attempt multiparty democracy, as some hope for today.
    Bernard Tamas, The Conversation, 22 June 2021
  • He is renowned as a fighter and was detained for years in the 1980s over his push for multiparty democracy.
    Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The multiparty coalition has controlled the House since 2017.
    Isabelle Ross, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Researchers who study elections have found, over and over again, that government tends to work better in multiparty proportional systems.
    Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But, in a multiparty parliamentary system like Germany’s, the rifts and tensions are easier to discern.
    Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Many countries in the Middle East have collapsed in recent decades into multiparty civil wars fueled by region-wide contests.
    Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In her first public address, outside the Shwedagon Pagoda, calls for a multiparty democratic government.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Finally, there is the myth that democracy can exist only through multiparty competitive elections.
    Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • The guerilla movement won elections in 1980 and has ruled the country ever since, with a strong distrust of the West and multiparty politics.
    Farai Mutsaka, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Hogan has called on Democratic lawmakers to set aside their proposals in favor of maps drawn by a multiparty commission Hogan created.
    Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Macron’s centrists are paralyzed by the country’s aversion to multiparty coalition-building, and the far-right opposition seems content to wait and watch as its own position is strengthened by the impasse.
    Drew Goins, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • The Arab Spring was still flickering in Tunisia, but multiparty politics wasn’t creating solutions.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Scholz and others were keen to dispel concerns that lengthy haggling and a new, multiparty government would mean unstable leadership in Europe’s biggest economy.
    Geir Moulson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Scholz and others were keen to dispel concerns that lengthy haggling and a new, multiparty government would mean unstable leadership in Europe's biggest economy.
    Geir Moulson, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Cuban exiles have demanded multiparty elections, freedom of speech, the release of political prisoners and other reforms.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Italy all operate under multiparty coalitions, many of which run across left-right divides.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
  • Chama cha Mapinduzi, having won all previous elections, has governed within a multiparty dispensation for 25 years.
    David E Kiwuwa, Quartz Africa, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Like many countries in Africa and elsewhere, Zambia saw a flowering of freedom in the 1990s with the advent of multiparty democracy.
    Hakainde Hichilema, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The Working Families Party believes that moving closer to a multiparty democracy helps solve this puzzle.
    Zack Mezera, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
  • Tsai’s films instead take place after 1987, when Chiang’s son, Ching-kuo, ceded one-party rule to the current multiparty democracy.
    Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2021
  • In Kenya, the day commemorates the 1990s struggle for multiparty democracy.
    ABC News, 7 July 2026
  • Electoral reform to allow multiparty democracy is an urgent necessity.
    Time, 19 Mar. 2021
  • So going beyond, say, secret writing to public key encryption, and then to even fancier things like zero-knowledge proofs, multiparty secure computation, obfuscation.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Yet a multiparty coalition signals a new era in German politics, whereby the political landscape has fragmented, and more small parties will be consistently vying for votes.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2021
  • While mainland China has one-party rule and no national elections, Hong Kong technically still has a multiparty legislature.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Kou added that at stake for Xi is proving China’s authoritarian model can outperform multiparty democracies in tackling social ills.
    Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
  • In the past three decades, Taiwan has transformed into a prosperous, vibrant multiparty democracy wholly at odds with the political dispensation in Beijing.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • That October, the Hungarian parliament passed legislation that allowed for the first multiparty elections.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021

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