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There is no legal obligation for political parties to publish their membership figures, so they tend to only be revealed in annual accounts or when a party holds a leadership election.

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When cases went as far as Strasbourg, the court tended to throw them out.

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Until recently, the judiciary tended to indirectly address the claims that now appear more formally as the unitary executive theory.

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"There are countries that are huge in terms of football and fanbases and they don't accept LGBTQ+ people. Those are the countries that tend to target me."

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As part of its campaign, Mattel conducted a study to try to better understand why girls tend to stop participating in sports.

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