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Computing | For the purposes of the German Data Protection Act:Any person or agency outside the storing agency with the exception of the party concerned or those persons and agencies which act on behalf of third parties within the scope of this act. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | Person or body that is recognized as being independent of the parties involved, as concerns the issue in question. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Though often able to win election to local or state office, third parties rarely win more than a tiny percentage of the vote in national elections. One reason for this is that third parties usually come into being to promote a specific issue, one which either or both of the major parties eventually end up co-opting. Two other reasons are structural: In the United States' "winner take all" electoral system, a party must win a plurality of votes in order to take a Congressional seat or win a state's electoral votes in the Presidential election. This is in contrast to the parliamentary election systems of other countries, where seats are apportioned based on a party's share of the overall vote. Also, many states use ballot access laws to keep third parties off the ballot or force them to spend all their resources just to get on the ballot.
The last third party to win electoral votes in a Presidential election was the Dixiecrat Party in 1948. The last third party candidate to win a signficant portion of the popular vote was the Reform Party's Ross Perot, who won 18.87% of the vote in the 1992 Presidential election.
Abraham Lincoln is elected president, causing the formerly third party Republicans to supplant the Whigs as one of the nation's two major parties.
Strom Thurmond runs on the segregationist Dixiecrat Party ticket in the Presidential election, splitting the Democratic vote and winning 39 (all Southern) votes in the electoral college. Despite this Truman still defeats Dewey.
Ross Perot wins almost 19% of the popular vote (though no electoral votes), causing Bill Clinton to win the Presidential election with only a 43% plurality of votes.History
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Third party."
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Movie/TV Titles | Third Party Risk (1954) The Third Party (1916) | |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany shall compensate any third party who may be prejudiced by any restitution or restoration ordered by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal under the provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this Article. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This legacy, deposited in the hands of a third party, was to be given up to Cosette at her majority or at the time of her marriage. |
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Health | These current practices have been shown to be of value in other disorders and may in the future be shown to be so in panic disorder as well. As with many other treatable disorders, access to effective care is at times limited by regulatory decisions, lack of financial resources, inadequate third party coverage, and stigma. (references) | |
Business | Therefore, third party organizations are used to execute a purchase. (references) | |
The government through OCPT grants licenses for a third party to operate any other service. (references) | ||
However, EU legislation may require that an independent third party be involved in product assessment. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Liechtenstein | An information bulletin also is issued by the third party (Freie Liste) represented in Parliament. (references) |
Iraq | In 1999 the Sanctions Committee offered to disburse funds to cover Hajj-related expenses via a neutral third party; the Government again rejected the offer. (references) | |
Burkina Faso | In 1998 the CSI released new regulations for private and independent radio and television, which entered into effect in 1999. The regulations allowed reinstatement of call-in shows, which were suspended in 1997. However, radio stations are held responsible if their call-in programs threaten the public order or the rights of any third party. (references) | |
Economic History | Egypt | Bilateral Investment Treaty also provides for non-binding, third party arbitration in investment disputes. (references) |
Spain | The law prohibits the assignment of obligation to a third party (sub-agent) without the consent of the principal. (references) | |
Switzerland | The branch must have its own books of account, although such books may be kept by the company headquarters or by a third party. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Arab Emirates | The law permits incommunicado detention, which is mostly used in allegedly sensitive cases in which the police claim that communication between the accused and a third party could jeopardize their investigation. (references) |
Belgium | As a result of the new law, commonly known as the law on universal jurisdiction, the courts have become a forum for third party efforts to try alleged human rights violations by high-profile participants in past and present conflicts in Central Africa, the Middle East, and South America. (references) | |
Political Economy | CHILE | The United States was a third party observer to the panels. (references) |
Political Rights | Jamaica | The opposition party was forced to apologize when its supporters looted the convenience store of the campaign manager for a third party candidate. (references) |
Trade | Bolivia | They can be drawn to the order of the consignee, who is permitted to endorse it over to a third party. (references) |
Switzerland | Authorization is granted only to residents who do the processing or repair themselves, or commission a third party. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | If it is not possible to have a third party introduce you, self-introductions should start with an explanation of what led you to contact this particular organization. (references) |
Ecuador | Minors (under 18) who are citizens or residents of Ecuador and who are traveling alone, with one parent or with a third party must present a copy of their birth certificate and written authorization from the absent parent(s) or legal guardian, specifically granting permission to travel alone, with one parent or with a third party. (references) | |
Women | Japan | Husbands have been prosecuted for spousal rape; usually these cases involved a third party who assisted in the rape. (references) |
Worker Rights | Brazil | In its March 2000 report, the ILO Committee of Experts noted that when convictions do occur, usually only the third party recruiters are punished and the owners of the large estates who employ illegal labor are not sanctioned. (references) |
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Expressions using "third party": accident to a third party ♦ third party insurance ♦ third party logistics ♦ trusted third party. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "third party"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شخص ثالث. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 第三方 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tredjepart, tredjemand (third person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | derde-opposant, derde (third). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kolmas osapuoli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tiers (third), tierce personne (third person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dritte (jur.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τριτανακόπτων, τρίτο μέρος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צד שלישי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | személy (busybody, character, creature, expletive, guarantor, gusher, head, malcontent, monger, mushroom, neurotic, number, person, persona, snake, stuffed shirt, thing, third person), kívülálló személy (third person), közömbös (cool, dry eyed, impassible, impassive, incurious, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, listless, lukewarm, neglectful, neutral, third person), harmadik személy (third person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | terzo opponente, terzo (third), terzi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 相対 (between ourselves, confrontation, facing, no third party, relative, tete-a-tete). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あいたい (between ourselves, confrontation, facing, no third party, tete-a-tete). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | urrysaght da'n treeoo fer (third party insurance), urraghys treeoo persoon (third party insurance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irdthay artypay terceiros, terceiro oponente. (various references) третья сторона. (various references) terceros, tercero oponente, tercero (third), tercera parte (third). (various references) tredje man. (various references) üçüncü şahıslara ait, üçüncü şahıs (third person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-p-r-r-t-t-y" | |
-3 letters: phratry, tripart. | |
-4 letters: hydria, parity, rarity, ritard, thirty, yttria. | |
-5 letters: airth, aphid, atrip, dairy, diary, dirty, ditty, dript, hairy, hardy, harpy, harry, hydra, padri, pardi, pardy, parry, party, patty, pithy, rapid, ratty, rhyta, tapir, tardy, tarry, tarty, third, thrip, trait, trapt, triad, yaird, yirth. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 69 72 64 50 61 72 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01101001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01010000 01100001 01110010 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h i r d   P a r t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0069 0072 0064 0050 0061 0072 0074 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547475847025067848691 |
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