the Speaker of the House of Commons is a non-party figure
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Arnold was in short the very exemplar of the detached if benevolent observer and adviser, the non-party independent.
Our established, non-party political forum has members in Shipley, as in the rest of Bradford.
It is difficult to understand or defend the exemption of non-party citizens.
Australia currently is home to more non-party Independent parliamentarians than any other comparable country.
Doctors for Reform claims to be ‘an independent, non-party group’.
Retake the Streets is an independent non-party group opposed to cars, lorries and washing.
‘It's going to be run on non-party political lines,’ John O'Farrell, director of the campaign, said.
Putting together the estimates of the various party and non-party groups, I got a total of somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000.
The non-party councillor got 1790 votes and was elected on the first count having exceeded the quota by 690 votes.
He was referring to the practice in the United States where non-party figures may nominate themselves by producing support from a number of people.
‘He claims that it is not fair to the non-party, anti-divorce lobbies,’ Johnston wrote.
Waterford Against Racism is a voluntary and non-party political organisation made up of refugee and asylum seekers, as well as local human rights, trade union and political activists.
In addition, independent non-party members received €16,288 in donations.
However, a vacancy caused by the resignation of a non-party councillor is subject to standing orders agreed by the council.
At the end of 1902 she founded the non-party Women's Political and Educational League which, at its peak, had branches state-wide.
He said a mixed composition of party and non-party members could speed up the investigation and provide independent and fair opinion.
But some consultants fear that such ideological non-party organizations flourishing could be problematic.
We are a broad-based, non-party political group of York citizens dedicated to fighting the Coppergate II proposals, and calling on the Secretary of State to open a public inquiry on the issue.
It is a non-profit making, non-party political organisation, funded by its member companies which employ about four million people between them.
The event is a non-party political event and party political banners or placards are discouraged.