Just before the Civil War, the Whig political party was making a last effort to remain a part of American political life.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

These areas saw a growing support for a peace party a political party opposed to the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

It started among farmers and led to the creation of a new political party -- the Populists.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Some turned violent. In the North, a political party was created to oppose the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Hours before the vote Tuesday, President Obama told reporters at the White House that education and the safety of communities should not be a political party issue.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

They believed the answer to their problems was a third national political party.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

But his greatest help was in building a strong political party for Jackson.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

She believed strongly,however, in being loyal to her state and her political party.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

In Ohio,a group of men decided to form a new political party.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

They called themselves Liberal Republicans and formed a new political party.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The result was the birth of a new political party.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

They formed a new political party called the Radical Democracy.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

The Tea Party is not a nationally recognized political party.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Hasham Baber is an official in the Awami National Party, a secular political party whose constituency is largely in Pakistan's northwest.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"We are apolitical, we are independent of any political party and we want to examine and rely on the evidence.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"He was an absolutely normal person. He had no connection with any religious party or any political party."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Tea Party activists seem more focused on shifting the Republican Party in a more conservative direction than in forming their own political party.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Nyan Win is the spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's political party, the National League for Democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

After months of rigorous debate on health insurance reform, fought largely along political party lines, President Obama says a bipartisan solution is starting to take shape.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

For the first time, members of Mr.Obama's own political party stood against him.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

A senior official said the United States would be happy to reconsider its policy on Hezbollah, if the Shiite group scrapped its militia wing and became a normal political party.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

The Tea Party movement is not a political party, but a loose grouping of conservative grass roots activists who oppose the health care bill and taxes and who want to reduce the power of the federal government.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

This is a surprise,". The Front for Democracy Defense,or FNDD, is one of three principal parties involved in negotiating an end to the crisis, along with the military government and a third political party that formed the main opposition group before the coup.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Voters also elected nine House members and two Senators from a new political organization -- the People's Party.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Van Buren built up the national Democratic Party with the same methods he used to build his political organization in New York state.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

A new party would weaken their political power.

VOA: special.2010.06.10