"platform" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She stood on a civil rights platform, highlighting the measures supported by David Davis that she claimed threaten civil liberties, including his support for the death sentence.
- I was with him when he walked out of the 1964 Republican Convention because the Republican Party wouldn't accept a civil rights platform.
- Sanders seems to be mixing a civil rights platform with a tongue-in-cheek poke at the league.
- By 1948, he had emerged as an intemperate voice of white supremacy, leading the Dixiecrat revolt against President Harry Truman's civil rights platform.
- It would commit the party instead to a strong civil rights platform and a welfare state along Roosevelt-Truman lines.
- President Harry S. Truman accepted the civil rights platform, causing the Dixiecrats to bolt the convention, splitting the party - or so it seemed.
- During the campaign, she fought on a largely conservative, pro-life rights platform, winning by a narrow margin of just 23,000 votes.
- The union also adopted a strong civil rights platform, calling for national legislation and combating racism in its own ranks.
- Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on what is politely called a "states' rights" platform or accurately called a "segregationist" platform.
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