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big tent

n.
A group, especially a political coalition, that accommodates people who have a wide range of beliefs, principles, or backgrounds.

big′-tent′ adj.
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big tent

n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy)
a. a political approach in which a party claims to be open to a wide spectrum of constituents and groups
b. (as modifier): big-tent politics.
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The Texas GOP certainly has all of the diversity required for a big-tent party, with every possible flavor of conservative.
Downplaying the hypothesis of Bulgaria's excessive dependence on Russia, Turkey, the EU and the US, he argues the actions of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov are driven by his instinct "to avert risks and avoid conflict"."Domestically, he threw his weight behind a big-tent coalition, which provides all manner of parties and leaders a place under the sun.
We're pastors, serving big-tent communities, ensuring that all voices are heard.
Apart from whether or not you think Jeremy Corbyn can lead the country, if Labour can't continue to function as a "big-tent" that brings all its members along with it, it is difficult to see how the party could win another election.
Taking place over the August Bank Holiday, it features a number of DJs, dance acts and performers bringing a weekend of big-tent partying to Brum.
Auds endlessly drawn to big-tent stories perhaps won't mind, but the themes here, including the leitmotif of an isolated populace and the enfeebling hothouse atmosphere of an island locale, needed more incisive scripting to overcome a strong sense of deja vu.
FROM the amount of tongue-lashing received by the Tory councillor Martyn Barber in the past two weeks in the ECHO's letters page, it is evident that in this, the 21st century, the age of globalisation, multiculturalism, big-tent politics and all that, the millennia-old tribal mentality in politics has failed to evolve in line with other things down the ages.
Jim Murphy appears to have both after unveiling his proposals for big-tent politics or, as he puts it, Team Scotland.