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  • adjective determined by a single party

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Examples

  • Most states allow anyone taking part in a conversation to audio-record it, a policy known as one-party consent.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • Others say it will lead to one-party rule in certain situations or create strategic situations to knock a candidate out of a challenge.

    Illinois Election Reform | Should Illinois Change to Open Primary Election? 2010

  • Obama's shift on human rights reflects a realization among administration officials that a rising China that remains a one-party state could ultimately be more unstable and more unpredictable than a nation moving ahead with democratic reforms.

    Obama hosts Hu Jintao on state visit, presses China on human rights John Pomfret 2011

  • Obama's shift on human rights reflects a realization among administration officials that a rising China that remains a one-party state could ultimately be more unstable and more unpredictable than a nation moving ahead with democratic reforms.

    Obama hosts Hu Jintao on state visit, presses China on human rights John Pomfret 2011

  • Vietnam's grand meeting to pick its top Communist leaders wrapped up Wednesday with the reshuffling of many familiar high-ranking party members, as the government clung to its one-party system despite Western influences.

    Vietnam Wraps Up Party Congress By MARGIE MASON 2011

  • FWIW, the Reigate council is basically a Tory one-party enterprise, and the land fell in the local green-belt, which has tight — NIMBYish — planning controls.

    Matthew Yglesias » Is America Overregulated? 2010

  • China remains a one-party country, but the KMT (the party that was on the other side in the civil war and generally runs Taiwan) has offices in many cities on the mainland and will probably run candidates there in a few years.

    Is the International Space Station Truly International? - NASA Watch 2009

  • Others say it will lead to one-party rule in certain situations or create strategic situations to knock a candidate out of a challenge.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • China may not be an enemy, but India can hardly afford to be sanguine about the rise on its borders of a powerful one-party ethno-state with a history of trying to resolve disputes by force.

    It's Time to Re-Align India Sadanand Dhume 2011

  • After years of war, isolation and poverty, Vietnam has embraced a market economy but remains a tightly controlled one-party state, mired in corruption, red tape and slow reform.

    Vietnam Wraps Up Party Congress By MARGIE MASON 2011

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