Social Democratic Party

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noun

History/Historical. a political party in Germany advocating a form of social organization based on the economic and political ideology of Karl Marx.

any of several European political parties advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic processes.

a U.S. political party, organized about 1897, that joined former members of the Socialist Labor party to form the Socialist party.

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How to use Social Democratic Party in a sentence

Olaf Scholz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, attends the annual ARD television summer interview.
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Olaf Scholtz of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, who is leading polls and is widely expected to be the next chancellor, has made clear that he sees relations with Paris as the cornerstone of Germany’s foreign policy.
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Obviously, the first obligation of all liberal democratic governments is to enforce the rule of law.
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Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.
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By 2012, Democratic President Barack Obama owned the Asian-American vote, winning it by 47 percentage points.
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Neither the Republican nor the Democratic party have done anything to consistently target Asian- American voters.
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But Republican and Democratic parties have made efforts to reverse that trend.
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
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To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
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And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
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Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.
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Walls End Castle, when the party broke up, returned to its normal state.
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British Dictionary definitions for Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party

noun

(in Britain 1981–90) a centre political party founded by ex-members of the Labour Party. It formed an alliance with the Liberal Party and continued in a reduced form after many members left to join the Social and Liberal Democratic Party in 1988

one of the two major political parties in Germany (formerly in West Germany), favouring gradual reform

any of the parties in many other countries similar to that of Germany

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