16-471: (Redirected from AU ) [REDACTED] Look up au , AU , Au , or aŭ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Au , AU , au or a.u. may refer to: Science and technology [ edit ] Computing [ edit ] .au , the internet country code for Australia Au file format , Sun Microsystems' audio format Audio Units ,
32-419: A multi-party system , with numerous competing political parties . Individual parties normally do not manage to gain power alone, and usually work with other parties to form coalition governments . The transition from a mono-party Communist regime to liberal democracy and pluralism resulted in new political parties mushrooming in the early 1990s. After the first free parliamentary elections in 1991 seats in
48-717: A building and cultural center in Frankfurt, Germany Au am Rhein , Germany Au in der Hallertau , Germany Switzerland [ edit ] Au, St. Gallen Au, Zürich Au peninsula Schloss Au , a château in Wädenswil Vehicles [ edit ] Ford Falcon (AU) , a family car made in Australia Vought AU, a post-World War II US Marine Corps variant of the F4U Corsair aircraft Other uses [ edit ] Aú ,
64-734: A cartwheel in the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira Au (surname) , a Chinese family name Au language Ab urbe condita (sometimes abbreviated as a.u.), Latin for "from the founding of the City" (Rome) a'u , the Hawaiian name for the Pacific blue marlin Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Au . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
80-507: A frequent element in Germanic toponymy Australia (ISO 3166 country code) Au, Guinea , Kankan Region Austria [ edit ] Austria (obsolete NATO, FIPS, and LOC MARC two-letter country code) Au, Vorarlberg , Bregenz, Austria Au am Leithaberge , Austria Au im Bregenzerwald , Austria Germany [ edit ] Au (Munich) , Munich, Germany Au (Schwarzwald) , Baden-Württemberg, Germany Au (squat) ,
96-529: A system level plug-in architecture from Apple Computer Adobe Audition , a sound editor program Windows Update or Automatic Updates, in Microsoft Windows Windows 10 Anniversary Update , of August 2016a Physics and chemistry [ edit ] Gold , chemical symbol Au Absorbance unit, a reporting unit in spectroscopy Atomic units , a system of units convenient for atomic physics and other fields Ångström unit ,
112-575: A track on Some Time in New York City by an album by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and Elephant's Memory Magazines [ edit ] Alternative Ulster , a Northern Irish music magazine, now called AU A&U: America's AIDS Magazine , sponsor of the Christopher Hewitt Award Other media [ edit ] Alternative universe (fan fiction) , fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of
128-454: A unit of length equal to 10 m or 0.1 nanometre. Astronomical unit , a unit of length used in planetary systems astronomy Arbitrary unit , a placeholder unit for when the actual value of a measurement is unknown or unimportant Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Music [ edit ] AU (band) , an experimental pop group headed by Luke Wyland Au , a 2010 release by Scottish rock band Donaldson, Moir and Paterson Au
144-599: The Sejm were divided among more than a dozen different parties (amongst them such curiosities as the Polish Beer-Lovers' Party ( Polska Partia Przyjaciół Piwa ), led by a popular comedy actor, Janusz Rewiński ). The existence of so many parties in the Sejm was seen by many as being counterproductive to the effectiveness of the parliament and a hindrance towards producing stable governments. Consequently, electoral reform
160-460: The left-wing monolith, but instead, kept merging, splitting and renaming. Even so, the parties of the right did manage to win government again from 1997 to 2001 (having initially governed from 1989 to 1993). Since the parliamentary elections of 2005, the right-wing parties have dominated the political scene, and appear to be in their strongest position to date. Two important developments in the political landscape have taken place since 2005. Firstly,
176-639: The SLD (Communist successor) party is no longer the major, or one of the two major parties. Secondly, the main political battleground is no longer between the ex-Solidarity right versus the ex-Communist left. The new competing groupings are those of the Law and Justice party (promoting economic interventionism and social conservatism) and the Civic Platform (representing a more liberal-conservative position). The general public disapproval of politics and politicians as
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#1732766012675192-404: The Sejm. Since 1990, the left side of the political scene has generally been dominated by former Communists turned social democrats . The right has largely comprised (former) Solidarity activists and supporters, but experienced deep divisions from the beginning, and showed less cohesiveness than the left. The right were unable to create a single bloc which could act as a lasting counterweight to
208-541: The canonical universe written about. Au Co , a fairy in Vietnamese mythology Age of Ultron , a 2013 series published by Marvel Comics A.U , a Chinese media franchise and brand Organizations [ edit ] au (mobile phone company) , a mobile phone operator in Japan African Union , a continental union Americans United for Separation of Church and State Athletic Union ,
224-931: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Au&oldid=1244381765 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages au">au The requested page title contains unsupported characters : ">". Return to Main Page . List of political parties in Poland [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This article lists current political parties in Poland , as well as former parties dating back as far as 1918. Since 1989, Poland has had
240-4392: The union of sports clubs in a British university Austral Líneas Aéreas (IATA code AU) Auxiliary Units , specially trained, highly secret units created by the United Kingdom government during the Second World War AGROunia , an agrarian-socialist political party in Poland Universities [ edit ] Asia [ edit ] Ajou University in Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea Abasyn University in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, AP, India Anhui University in Hefei, Anhui, China Aletheia University in New Taipei City, Taiwan Allahabad University in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Arellano University in Philippines Assumption University (Thailand) in Thailand Abhilashi University in Himachal Pradesh, India Adesh University in Bathinda, Punjab, India. Europe [ edit ] Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark Aberystwyth University in Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom Akademia Umiejętności in Kraków, Poland Arden University in Coventry, England Oceania [ edit ] Auckland University in New Zealand North America [ edit ] Adelphi University in Garden City, New York Alfred University in Alfred, New York Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada American University in Washington, D.C. Anaheim University in Anaheim, California Anderson University (Indiana) in Anderson, Indiana Anderson University (South Carolina) in Anderson, South Carolina Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan Antioch University in Culver City, California Apollos University in Huntington Beach, California Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania Argosy University in Alameda, California Arizona University in Tucson, Arizona Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio Athabasca University in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois Other [ edit ] Air University (disambiguation) , various Air Force universities Places [ edit ] Aue (toponymy) ,
256-542: Was undertaken and an electoral threshold for the Lower House was instituted prior to the 1993 elections. The set threshold required a minimum vote of 5% for parties (with exemptions for ethnic minority parties) and 8% for electoral coalitions. The threshold was set at the national, rather than divisional, level, and had the effect of preventing many minor parties from winning seats in later elections. The threshold also prevented independent candidates from gaining election to
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