After the war, newspapers supported different political parties and felt free to express opposition to the government.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

General MacArthur told the Japanese people they were now free to form political parties.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The two major political parties,he declared, were divided in the same way.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Three political parties offered candidates: the Democrats,the Republicans and the Know-Nothings.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Once published, the provisional lists will have to be agreed upon by all political parties before ballots are printed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Parties across the political spectrum have condemned the killing, despite what they called their significant political differences with Terre'Blanche and his Movement.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

He says the electoral law is a political issue and affects the interests of all parties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

It has experienced internal divisions and rising tensions in the past year, as major political parties struggle to agree on a basic political structure.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Kunda Dixit says anger,outrage, and frustration are rising among ordinary people as political parties fail to sink their political ambitions, and resolve the deadlock.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

While violence has subsided in the past few days, Kyrgyz political parties are urging the country's leaders to cancel a planned vote on constitutional reforms.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

But lawmakers from both political parties demanded accountability over how the money will be spent.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

At a hearing of the bipartisan Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill, lawmakers from both major U.S.political parties cited the November unemployment figure as welcome progress.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

One of the main points of contention between the Maoists and other political parties is the future of about who are currently confined in U.N.-supervised camps.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The authority's members will come from political parties, civil society and the military.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

The main opposition coalition of political parties, civil society groups, and trade unions organized the strike to remember those killed, beaten,and raped by members of Guinea's military on September 28.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

With reform efforts effectively stalled in the Senate, Mr.Obama has invited Congressional leaders from both major political parties to a meeting Thursday to try to get the process moving again.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Britain's political life has been dominated for the past three decades by two parties - the Conservatives, now led by David Cameron, and Labor headed by current Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

The head of a coalition of Mauritanian political parties opposing the military leaders who seized power last year has said that talks toward the resolution of the country's political crisis have ended unsuccessfully.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"The most vocal and most active members of both political parties, on the Democratic side they tend to be the most liberal and on the Republican side they tend to be the most conservative."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"But they have to be a little bit careful to overstate that." Both political parties also see the continuing congressional debate on health care reform as a key factor in next year's midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Leaders of the South Africa's opposition political parties, labor unions and health-care professions praised President Zuma for launching an ambitious program to test 15 million South Africans for the HIV/AIDS virus by June of next year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

With just two months before the presidential poll, the Ivorian government has announced that the provisional voter list is ready and will be submitted to the Independent Electoral Commission, government leaders and political parties on Thursday.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Other bystanders say they remain fearful if Thailand was pressed to elections and pro-Thaksin parties won it may do little to end the cycle of political tensions that have engulfed the country since late 2005.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

"The EPRDF has discussed with parties that seem to approve or endorse its lines, not the serious parties that do challenge the EPRDF and do have serious issues about the political space in the country,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

But despite weeks of negotiations, the three main political parties - the Maoists,the Nepali Congress, and the Communist Party known as UML have failed to reach a consensus on who should head a new government.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"I think it will also be an opportunity to reiterate our strong commitment to this alliance, and also to the agreements that have been reached between our two governments, not political parties, but between our two governments,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Senator Webb also met with Prime Minister Thien Sein, Foreign Minister Nyan Win, the chairman of the State Constitution Drafting Commission Aung Toe and representatives from political parties, including Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy and state-affiliated social organizations.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

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