“Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).” PoliticalProcessPartyRiskGainsSeekingSeatsPartisansBipartisanIncumbentsRedistricting Author:Thomas E. Mann
“Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked - not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.” IfsWould BeFeltPresidentTermPartyDemocracyThirdsSeekingWelcomeImpulseRulersPrecedentContinentalMugabeZuma Author:Mark Gevisser
“It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off.” InterestPartySeekingMinistersBrownLabourPrimePrime MinisterDepartureLabour Party Author:David Blunkett
“Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.” LifeFacesPartyLaughingOfficeJokesKillingSeekingBoringDrunkYour FacePointlessYarn Author:Glen Duncan
“The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.” PartyFateSeekingRingsHatsRomneyNominating Author:Gail Collins
“The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner).” FirstsPersonsSelfFactsBodyPartyActingPrinciplesResourcesDirectThirdsBasesClaimsSeekingOwnersOwnershipDisputesScarceThird PartiesScarce ResourcesSelf Ownership Author:Stephan Kinsella