Representatives of the two parties met secretly to work out a compromise.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

We had the impeachment of President Clinton, we had the Vietnam War, we had the Iran-Contra investigation, periods when the two parties had an enormously high level of tension.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

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

But if the two parties fail to make an agreement, Mr.Clegg could side with Labor, giving the party that has led Britain for more than a decade a chance to hold on to power.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

It was a party of protest, formed by men who refused to support either of the two old parties.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

In this way, William Jennings Bryan was able to run for president at the head of two separate political parties.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

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

VOA: special.2009.03.26

He says two of the three opposition parties that signed the Code of Conduct are moles with suspicious ties to the government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

"Even though Clinton's visit was mainly about the release of the two female journalists, in the bigger picture it was beneficial for both parties.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Can we save ourselves from those problems?" Mr.Karzai also requested from his two counterparts that outside parties be allowed to participate in future tri-partite summits.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

"Both parties share the goal of a two-state solution and of comprehensive peace.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Heyde says she helped coordinate the program's two "wrapping parties" in Manassas,Virginia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

A major point of difference between the two main parties is whether the government should offer a health insurance program to compete with private insurance companies in an effort to drive down health care costs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"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

Mr.Talabani,who is an ethnic Kurd, and whose Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (PUK) is the smaller of Kurdistan's two major parties, has been mediating between other Kurdish leaders to put an end to the terror activities of the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK), which have long angered Ankara.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23